{"id":504962,"date":"2025-11-03T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=504962"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:24:27","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-hits-back-at-rooney-about-messis-goat-claim","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-hits-back-at-rooney-about-messis-goat-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo hits back at Rooney about Messi\u2019s GOAT claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best footballers in history, Cristiano Ronaldo, has shared that he doesn\u2019t think Leo Messi is the best in the history of football. Ronaldo gave an interview in which he discussed life in Saudi Arabia and also revealed that he doesn\u2019t view Messi as the GOAT.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Piers Morgan directly asked the Portuguese legend if he believes that Lionel is better than him, and he answered: \u201cLeo better than me? I don\u2019t think so. I will not be humble here.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No filters. No scripts. Just us.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon with my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@piersmorgan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UE1HSi2UOA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UE1HSi2UOA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cristiano\/status\/1985350846251491605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite already being 40 years old, Cristiano doesn\u2019t think about retirement at the moment as he has 9 goals in 10 matches in all tournaments since the beginning of the campaign. Ronaldo told Morgan that he wants to lift the title in Saudi Arabia with Al-Nassr, as that is something that he failed to do until now, after he signed as a free agent with the Saudi Arabian club after leaving Manchester United 3 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best footballers in history, Cristiano Ronaldo, has shared that he doesn\u2019t think Leo Messi is the best in the history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":504963,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18098,16904],"news_category":[14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18099,17961],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Portuguese superstar doesn\u2019t agree with his former teammate.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/504962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/504962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504966,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/504962\/revisions\/504966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504962"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=504962"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=504962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}