Neymar loves to party. He might even love it more than J.R. Smith does. There’s nothing wrong with that, the guy’s 24 years old.
The Barcelona superstar has been living it up during his time off. He was not playing during the Copa America because the Brazilian Football Confederation preferred that he played in the Rio Olympics, but that didn’t stop him from watching a Brazil Copa match with Justin Bieber, Lewis Hamilton, and Jamie Foxx.
Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has provided a compelling piece of reasoning as towards why Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player of his generation.
Having worked with Ronaldo for six hugely successful seasons at United, Ferguson has since watched the Portuguese forward dominate La Liga for seven years with Real Madrid and win his first major international tournament with Portugal, the 2016 European Championship.
Former Brazilian international Deco is one of the few people on the planet who has had the pleasure of playing on the same team as Lionel Messi and Ronaldinho. So when he says that Ronaldinho had more talent than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, we are forced to take him more seriously than we would almost any other person in the world.
Gareth Bale says he doesn’t listen to Cristiano Ronaldo’s advice on free-kicks, and we gotta say that we fully support this decision.
Bale has scored two free-kicks at Euro 2016 so far, and when asked if his success could be due to advice Ronaldo gave him, Bale had this to say: "No, not really. I do it my way. I like my own style.”
Well he’s never lacking for confidence, is he? Cristiano Ronaldo, the 31-year-old Real Madrid and Portugal forward has come out and said he believes he has been the best player of the past 20 years.
Ronaldo has long held that he believes he can play at the highest level for years to come, despite being on the wrong side of 30, and his latest statements allude a belief that what he has yet to accomplish will prove that he has been the best player of the past two decades.
Diego Maradona’s verbal influence has only increased since the heights of his playing days — the cult of his personality dictating that many give credence to his ill-thought-out claims. On Thursday, Maradona should’ve put his foot in his mouth once again when discussing the leadership qualities of his Argentine compatriot, Lionel Messi.