Lionel Messi v Cristiano Ronaldo: rivalry renewed in Riyadh

The era-defining duo will meet when Messi's Inter Miami face Ronaldo's Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia

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00:00 What these two guys have done will be almost impossible to imitate.

00:04 Impossible. I think it's unique.

00:06 To find in all history two players like Cristiano and Messi do what they have done.

00:12 [Music]

00:30 The rivalry is over. But it was a good rivalry. The spectators liked it a lot.

00:38 But it's not like Cristiano doesn't have to hate Messi or vice versa.

00:43 Because they are both good, or very good. They changed the history of football and they continue to change it.

00:51 And we are respected all over the world. I think that's the most important thing.

00:56 And he's doing his way, like I do mine.

00:59 [Music]

01:09 I won everything. I played in the most important clubs in Europe.

01:14 And for me now it's a new challenge.

01:17 The most important thing for me was the collective prize, the group prize. I was lucky to have won everything in my career.

01:30 They are two different players. Two aliens, if you want to call them that.

01:34 I'm privileged. I'm one of the few who can play with both at the same time.

01:39 This only allows me to be privileged, to tell my grandkids one day that I can play with both of them.

01:47 And learn a lot, both with one and the other.

01:51 [Music]

02:01 Everyone has an opinion, but nobody can doubt that he is there with the greatest all the time.

02:07 For me, I said many times, I've been the...

02:11 He's the best.

02:14 He's a player who, along with Cristiano, has done 15, 20 years of very good things for football.

02:24 We have to enjoy him, we have to enjoy Cristiano because time is passing and we will have him here forever.

02:31 (dramatic music)

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