In his recent podcast, former MU star Rio Ferdinand spoke up to defend the reputation of his former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. Specifically, after receiving a question about “Aliens” Ronaldo de Lima (Brazil) seemed to dislike and somewhat disrespect his junior CR7 because he chose 8 of the world’s top superstars but eliminated them. Captain of the Portuguese national team.
Speaking to The Guardian (UK), Ronaldo Nazario explained the reason for eliminating Cristiano Ronaldo as follows: “I think there is a very, very special group, where you have Diego Maradona, Messi, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Pele, Van Basten , Ronaldinho. I will include myself. Let the fans speak, let them argue in the bar. But you can’t rank them, you can’t compare generations.”
This obviously causes a lot of controversy, because Cristiano Ronaldo is the striker with the most goals in football history (879). R9 personally also underestimated CR7 many times when he always admitted that Lionel Messi was better than the former Real Madrid star.
Speaking about this issue, former midfielder Rio Ferdinand commented: “I think he has some problem with (Cristiano) Ronaldo. I think here is the fact that he took the name Ronaldo from him. CR7 has made everyone in the world see that he is Ronaldo every time fans mention him.
This also happened in the case of Thierry Henry. The way he always degrades (Cristiano) Ronaldo with his statements makes me uncomfortable. I still remember when he humiliated Thierry Henry by scoring two goals and beating Arsenal as a young player at MU. There is a clip at Highbury where Henry hits Ronaldo on the back of the head and Ronaldo also pushes him away. Then Ronaldo scored the decisive goal.
As for Cristiano Ronaldo, the 39-year-old player has not responded to being criticized by two football legends. The star on the Al-Nassr payroll is currently focusing on the national team for the friendly match against Slovenia tomorrow, March 27.
