FC President Porto Pinto Da Costa is a well-respected man in the middle of club leaders to be the one with the most longevity at this high-responsibility position. Thus, his opinions and analyses are necessarily decrypted. And his last outing will be no exception, especially as it concerns the duel of statistics that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have been delivering for several years. According to the boss of the Dragões, there is nothing logical to want to compare the two stars, because they do not evolve on the same planet …
For a direct question to a Portuguese, I would say that Ronaldo is the best player in the world and that Messi is from another planet, detailed Pinto Da Costa during an interview in El Pais. “I can’t forget patriotic sentiment, if you can call it that, but that shouldn’t make me lose my mind.” I feel sad when the breeders have to choose the best in the world and I see, for example, the Portuguese coach, my friend Fernando Santos (Portugal’s breeder, Editor’s note), do not put Messi among the top three, this is absurd.