Tenuous landmarks and angry DMs to Transfermarkt: The myths and realities of Messi vs Ronaldo

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The Athletic

Soccer,, Sports

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey and Charlie Eccleshare are joined by Joshua Robinson, co-author of new book Messi vs Ronaldo, to examine the way football has consumed the two greatest players of the modern era.

From the textbook elements of Ronaldo's backstory to Messi's curiously non-famous voice, the more quaint examples of Ronaldo's ego running riot, bafflingly bad TV adverts, the goalscoring numbers, the terrible opinions and the prospect of one final twist in the 2022 World Cup final.

Meanwhile, the pod imagine what Messi and Ronaldo's career paths would have been if they were simply half as good at football.

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:05.2	I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like.
0:10.4	Is Gas going to have a crack?
0:12.2	He is, you know.
0:13.0	Oh, he fell!
0:15.6	Brilliant!
0:18.8	He's round the goalkeeper!
0:21.1	He's done it!
0:22.8	Absolutely incredible!
0:24.8	He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was
0:32.4	without a shadow of an out giving him lip.
0:35.4	Oh, I say, it's amazing.
0:38.4	It does it tame, and tame, and tame again.
0:41.4	Crank of the music, charge a glass.
0:45.4	This nation is going to dance all night.
0:49.7	Getting a football for Christmas and other mandatory footballing superstar Genesis moments.
0:54.4	The most elite sportsperson whose voice you barely ever heard.
0:57.7	Angry DMs to transfer marked.
0:59.6	The Patrick Clivert Goals to Game benchmark.
1:02.1	A football advert banned in Denmark.
1:04.1	Increasingly tenuous landmarks.
1:05.9	Which specific goal was their trademark?
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