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ROBERTO CARLOS TAKES HIS BET

An ex of Real Madrid also chooses: "The best is not Messi or Cristiano"

Published:19/05/2020 - 17:17h

Updated:19/05/2020 - 17:21h

The football break has left time for reflection, and there are numerous legend who have raised their voices. For a ex Real Madrid player, Roberto Carlos, the best player in history is not Leo Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo

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In the last weeks have produced a lot of analyses, and the reflection not even has braked with the turn of the football. The worry centres in how and when goes to go back to play in full crisis of the coronavirus, but for the debates always there is time. And when it treats of personal elections, is clear that it is difficult to obtain consensus in spite of that many think, more or less, on the same line.

During the recent sportive stop avivó the discussion on Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Fans and expert 'battle' to decide who is the best player, and especially who is the best player of the history. Although there is a lot of that decant by options more classical like Diego Armando Maradona and Peeled, the one of Rosario and the one of Madeira accumulate a lot of follower, already was between veterans or between youngsters.

But also they exist those that remain to half way and do not leave so far but neither choose actuality. This is the case of Roberto Carlos, ex of the Real Madrid that warns that there is another candidature to take into account. For the one of Sao Paulo, and for other a lot of, there is a footballer that won a place in the elite in spite of a marked career by injuries of gravity: "Ronaldo was the best. Never there will be another 'Phenomenon'".

"I think that in our generation was more difficult to mark goals. It was more physical then and the attackers were less protected. But Ronaldo could do of everything", rememora in 'Goal', elogiando to a forward that left his footprint in a path that includes 296 so many and 70 assistances in 451 commitments in all the competitions, some registers to which it is necessary to add a prolific file like international.

"It knew the incredible that was when it arrived, but a lot of people in Madrid, no. It surprised to a lot of people. Memory that 80.000 people were very happy and gratamente surprised with him", adds the side, on a star bred between Sao Cristóvao and Cruzeiro, that gave to know in the PSV Eindhoven and that shined in FC Barcelona, Inter and Real Madrid, before happening also by Milan and Corinthians.

Roberto Carlos gives the key of the Real Madrid

In addition to praising to his compatriot, Roberto Carlos has given the key of the Real Madrid of the 'galactic', that for him was much more that a team of football: "Had an incredible environment inside the club. Although there was big players, was only a group of big people working in the same surroundings. All were big friends and still are it. It was spectacular. The Real Madrid is bigger that the egos".

"The club is enormous and the culture of the club was so big that could fichar to big players. It depends on the players adapt to the culture and no the other way around. All had to speak Spanish in the changing room. The only that decided to speak more Portuguese that Spanish was Beckham because it did not want to go out of my house. It was near of Ronaldo and of me, so his Portuguese improved that his Spanish", has valued.

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