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Messi vs. Ronaldo
- One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of the intertwined sagas and legacies of two of the greatest soccer players of all time—Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo—examining how their rivalry has grown from a personal competition to a multi-billion-dollar industry, paralleling the stunning rise, overwhelming excesses, and uncertain future of modern international soccer.
For over fifteen years, almost any conversation about international soccer has always come back to two players—Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo—undoubtedly the greatest of their generation but with styles, attitudes, and fanbases that couldn’t be more different. For millions of people around the world “Messi or Ronaldo?” isn’t simply a barroom argument, or an affirmation of fandom, so much as a statement of philosophy, of values, of what global soccer is today and of what it will be tomorrow.
Now Wall Street Journal reporters and co-authors of The Club, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, unite the stories of Messi and Ronaldo into a single modern epic of global sports, detailing how one rivalry changed both the game and the business of international soccer—forever. Based on dozens of firsthand accounts and years of original reporting, Messi vs. Ronaldo weaves together the stakes, color, and characters at the heart of each man’s story, going inside the locker rooms and boardrooms where their legends were forged and revealing off-field drama as gripping as anything that happened on it. From their contrasting origin stories to their divergent career arcs and their conflicting reputations, these players have built their successes on opposite paths, yet each, in his own way, offers a riveting tale of triumph and excess. Taken together, their story embodies the astronomical growth of international soccer, how social media has revolutionized the power of sports celebrity, and how the desire to capitalize on the billions of dollars these players represent electrified some of the most storied clubs in Europe—Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Manchester United among them—and cost them almost everything.
With the 2022 World Cup almost certain to be the last for both of these figures, Messi vs. Ronaldo offers a deeply researched look at their legacy and grapples with the impact that their talents have had on the game for better and for worse. Much more than a retelling of the dual accomplishments of these great players, this is truly a biography of a rivalry, one that has become a crucial lens for understanding the past, present, and future of global soccer.
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- Andres
- 20-01-2023
Enjoyable from cover ro cover
This book not only opens a window into the 2 GOATs race, but into the inner works of the soccer world. This is not a book about strategies in the pitch, this is a book about how the beautiful game changed to survive as the most popular sport in the world....is about the strategies of hungry excecutives and disreputable state stakeholders to change the football world through the rise of it's 2 greatest stars ever
Although this book's main Characters are it's GOATs it also shows you how today we sit there singing Blue Moon watching a famous Manchester blue team, without even batting an eye or giving a thought of the oil and sand infamous behemoths infusing black blood into the once proud sporting institutions of the European states....and its hard to tell if it has not been for the best.
My only gripe with this book, is that it got published before Messi won the 2022 world cup....an updated version would be gold
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- Anonymous User
- 13-06-2023
Great story
It has all of the facts that you could ask for highly recommend to a football fan.
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