A reaction from Cristiano Ronaldo after Messi’s eighth Ballon d’Or has caught the attention of football fans. Tomás Roncero, a popular Spanish sports journalist, attacked the Argentine for his new election, without going unnoticed on social networks, where one of those who interacted was surprisingly CR7.
As recorded in a publication in the newspaper AS, the Portuguese saw the statements of the self-confessed Real Madrid fan and managed to laugh, a decision that has placed him in the middle of criticism.
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Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or for the eighth time, this Monday at the Châtelet theater in Paris, where Aitana Bonmatí was crowned for the first time and made her entry into the Olympus of football, after both were world champions with Argentina and Spain, respectively.
???? Cristiano Ronaldo did not appear for the Ballon d’Or gala in Paris, but we have no doubt that he was pending
???? This is how he reacted to the video of @As_TomasRoncero giving his opinion on the award to Messi. If you haven’t seen it, you can find it here: https://t.co/HJF8KyDpBu pic.twitter.com/HL4Vr8wwF0
— Diario AS (@diarioas) October 31, 2023
Messi will have to make a new place in his overloaded showcases: proclaimed world champion at the end of 2022 in Qatar, author of seven goals, including a double in the final, the 36-year-old Argentine surpassed the Norwegian on the podium of the highest individual award Erling Haaland and Frenchman Kylian Mbappé.
After 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2019 with Barça and 2021 with the colors of PSG, Messi added more shine to a record that is difficult to repeat in which at the national team level he added a Copa América in 2021 and 2022 and the long-awaited World Cup.
One of those absent from the Ballon d’Or ceremony was precisely Cristiano Ronaldo, who was furthest from Messi with five awards.
THIS IS WHAT TOMÁS RONCERO SAID ABOUT MESSI
???? Cristiano Ronaldo LIKED and laughed at a video by Tomás Roncero in which he criticizes the Ballon d’Or given to Leo Messi. pic.twitter.com/R1OcS5LBeq
— SrNaninho (@SrNaninho) October 31, 2023
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