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  • Atletico president wish Messi and Ronaldo would back in LaLiga

    Atletico president wish Messi and Ronaldo would back in LaLiga

    Enrique Cerezo, the president of Atletico Madrid, wants to see a LaLiga matchup between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo before both players hang up their boots.

    Messi spent 21 years at Barcelona before departing on a free transfer to join Paris Saint-Germain in August 2021. He has been frequently linked with a return to the club.

    Prior to playing for Juventus, Manchester United, and the current Saudi Arabian team Al Nassr, Ronaldo spent nine seasons and won numerous trophies with Real Madrid.

    While there has been little talk of Ronaldo heading back to the Spanish top flight, Cerezo believes it would benefit the league for the two superstar forwards to return one day.

    “It would seem fantastic to me if Messi returned to the league, the same as Cristiano Ronaldo,” he said while attending the Barcelona Open tennis final on Sunday. 

    “Both are still playing and it would be fantastic if they returned.”

    Cerezo was speaking ahead of Atletico’s 1-0 loss to Barcelona, which leaves Diego Simeone’s side 16 points adrift of the leaders and five behind second-place Real Madrid.

    Yannick Carrasco played a full part for Atletico, though he may find himself at Barcelona next season as the Catalan giants have the option to sign the versatile wide player.

    “Yannick is a very good player, fantastic,” Cerezo said when asked about Carrasco’s future. 

    “In the world of football, there are people who want to achieve many things and don’t get to, and others who don’t want anything and get it. I don’t know [what will happen next].”

  • Photos: Meet Messi and Ronaldo’s family, having a great time hanging out together

    Over the years there have been an all round competition between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. The fight for who the GOAT is is still on, none is giving up any time soon and the fans of the two greatest are also not giving up.

    Ronaldo has been applauded for having time with family, despite his busy and engaged lifestyle, he posts pictures of himself and girlfriend with their kids every now and then.

    It may seem he’s the best dad and boo anyone would ever ask for, because it really isn’t easy putting family first and being so popular.

    Meanwhile Lionel Messi on the other hand is a pitch perfect freak, he does his thing in the field, you may be even tempted to say he has no life outside the pitch.. But he’s as cute and loving as Ronaldo, he has plenty of time for his friends and family.

    Its rare to see Messi’s pictures outside the pitch while Ronaldo’s family time pics are viral. It doesn’t mean Leo doesn’t spend time with those he loves.

    Leo loves his family, his girlfriend, kids and of course his dog Hulk. He spend so much time with them you’ll even wonder how he gets time to train to be so perfect.

    Here are some rare pictures of Lionel Messi hanging out and chilling with family even more than Ronaldo does.

    They are both Great players and the world is privileged to have both of them in the same age and time. Feel free to drop your thoughts.

  • I almost left Barcelona five years ago – Messi

    Lionel Messi has revealed that he almost left Barcelona in 2014 after he and his father were charged with tax fraud.

    The five-time Ballon d’Or winner was alleged to have used tax havens in Belize and Uruguay to conceal earnings from image rights, and as such defrauded Spain of €4.1 million between 2007 and 2009.

    Messi was eventually found guilty and sentenced to 21 months in prison and a €2m fine before his prison time was amended to a €252,000 (£223,000/$288,000) fine in July 2017.

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    His father, Jorge, was similarly sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment and a fine of €1.5m, though his prison sentence was reduced on appeal.

    And Messi has now admitted that, when the charges were originally made, he wanted to leave Spain and spoke to a number of clubs regarding a move away from Camp Nou, though he did not receive any concrete offers.

    “I had it in my mind to leave at that time, not to leave Barcelona but to leave Spain,” he told RAC1. “I felt that I was being mistreated and did not want to be here anymore.

    “I had the door opened by many clubs but I never had an official offer because everyone knew of my previous desire to continue in Barcelona. The feeling I had went beyond what I felt for this club.

    “There was a time when I ended up tired by a lot of circumstances, it has happened several times, especially in 2013 and 2014, with the problems with the treasury and everything that came out. It was difficult for me and my family, many people did not know what I was going through and I heard a sector of the press helped to make this happen.”

    Speculation regarding Messi’s future continues, with the recent revelation that he has a clause in his current contract that would allow him to leave the Spanish champions for free at the end of the season should he so wish.

    Revealed: Messi holds right to terminate Barcelona contract

    The 32-year-old, though, insists that he wants to see out the remainder of his career with the Blaugrana, for whom he has worn the captain’s armband for the past two seasons.

    “Obviously I will stay if you love me. I am delighted and my idea is to stay here – nothing has changed that at all. It is increasingly clear that I will end my career here. It is my idea and that of my family, first for how I am and what I feel for the club and the city.

    “I would not like to change the friendships of the children or their social circle, I would not like this to break. I had to live with it and I do not want it to happen to them.”

    Source: Goal.com

  • Ronaldo invites Messi to dinner at UEFA Awards

    Football draws and awards nights can often be dreary affairs, full of stilted speeches and goal montages.
    But when you get two of the greatest players ever – Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo – agreeing to break bread over dinner and a philosophical monologue from Eric Cantona, it turns into an entirely different occasion.

    There were clear pangs of absence making the heart grow fonder between Juventus forward Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Messi as they shared jokes and laughs sat next to each other.

    It was almost difficult to imagine that the two were such great rivals during Ronaldo’s nine years at Real Madrid and in the last decade of Ballon d’Or voting for the world’s greatest player.

    “We have shared the stage 15 years. I don’t know if that’s happened before – the same two guys on the same stage all the time,” Ronaldo said.

    Read:Ronaldo fined by Uefa over goal celebration

    “Of course, we have a good relationship. We haven’t had dinner together yet, but I hope in the future.

    “We had that battle in Spain. I pushed him and he pushed me as well. So it’s good to be part of the history of football.”

    With touching shows of affection like this, who would dare suggest that the pair do not get on?

    If that impromptu display of nostalgia wasn’t enough, Cantona’s musings were something else.

    The former Manchester Untied and France striker was speaking before the 2019-20 Champions League draw in Monaco, when he was given the Uefa president’s award.

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    Dressed in a flat cap and a red shirt, he began by quoting Shakespeare’s King Lear, saying “as flies to wanton boys we are for the gods” before continuing to reference science, war and crime.

    The audience, packed with football superstars, watched in stunned silence before sharing puzzled glances as Cantona made his way from the stage before Lucy Bronze and Virgil van Dijk were later named Uefa’s players of the year.

    Cantona isn’t new to philosophical outpourings. In the aftermath of his kung-fu kick on a Crystal Palace fan in 1995, he gave his infamous press conference observation that “when the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea”.

    Eric Cantona took up acting since retiring from football in 1997

    Cantona’s bizarre speech in full

    “As flies to wanton boys we are for the gods, they kill us for their sport.

    “Soon the science will not only be able to slow down the ageing of the cells, soon the science will fix the cells to the state and so we will become eternal.

    “Only accidents, crimes, wars, will still kill us but unfortunately, crimes, wars, will multiply.

    “I love football. Thank you.”

    Source: bbc.com