El lateral brasileo Dani Alves be honest on the podcast Efran Velardehis teammate in Pumas, on a subject that seemed taboo during his golden stage in the FC Barcelona: “I love Cristiano. Now that we are no longer in Bara and Madrid it seems that I can speak, because it always seemed that I couldn’t. Cristiano exemplifies, for all of us who do not have such qualitythat with work you can also compete against the best. I respect him a lot and I had the opportunity to tell him“, I assure.
The controversial Ballon d’Or gala
Another of the anecdotes that Dani Alves told explains perfectly what was experienced during the stage of maximum rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona: “There came a time because of the rivalry that I approached him to greet him and he did not greet me. There was a controversy that never came out, but in the Ballon d’Or dressing room we had a ‘scuffle’I greet everyone and l he didn’t greet me because of what Bara-Madrid was generating outside“, I explain.
Comparison with Portuguese
“How can I not respect a guy who got everything based on work, to throw balls at him? I identify with him, because everything I did in my life was based on that. If you were to make a comparison, as a player I am closer to Cristiano than to Leo because of the worknot because of the talent, because Leo is a born talent, who was born with the talent to play football and to be in another world that only he achieves”
