#4 They Respect Each Other
It’s a media thing to really blow things out of proportion. It gets easier to sell stuff if two players, arguably the greatest ever, are at loggerheads. The worse the blood between the two, the more intense are their polarized fans and the greater the hype around the duo.
It stands true for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s fans that the two sets are constantly at each others’ throats as to the superiority of either player. However, the two players themselves have never really been at loggerheads with each other off the pitch.
The duo has spent countless interviews reiterating the fact that there’s respect between the two and the rivalry extends to only matters on the field. This was further pushed through as recently a video went viral which saw Cristiano and Messi holding their sons in front of each other with Cristiano telling his son to greet his ‘rival’s’ son.
Such niceties are natural and normal when the duo is not wearing their respective jerseys. Once on the field, they’re looking to outdo the other week in week out and boy is that a treat for the neutrals!
