The person in charge of breaking the news was the technician of the team of Saudi Arabia, Luis Castrowho put an end to the uncertainty that had been generated in recent days about the physical condition of the Portuguese star.
The “luso” had already been in the news for his injury because it led to the cancellation of two games in China.
“Cristiano Ronaldo is in his final stage of recovery and will be with us in the coming days. He will not play tomorrow”warning Castroputting an end to the fans’ illusion of seeing the two greatest exponents of the century in what would have been their last face to face.
The last time the two faced each other was a little over a year ago, when the January 19, 2023 in another friendly that at the time pitted the football stars of Saudi Arabia against him Paris Saint-Germain of Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé.
Their history of confrontations is full of epic crosses in Spainwhen the world champion was active in Barcelonawhile the “luso” did it in real Madrid. Also, there are a couple of friendly ones with the Argentine national team and official crosses in clubs, Manchester United and Juventus.
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In total they played 37 games, with 17 wins for the Argentine, 11 for the Portuguese and nine draws.
The duel was even in goalswith 23 for each of them, and the most remembered of all may have been the first, in the final of the Champions League it’s from the season 2008/2009when Messi rose in Moscow to head and give the “Orejona” to the Catalan club over the United of Ronaldo.
With regard to level Selection, Messi and Christian They met in two friendlies: on February 9, 2011 it was 2-1 for Argentinain Geneva, and both scored (the other was done by Ángel Di María); while on November 18, 2014in Old Traffordwon Portugal 1-0 with a goal on the hour mark from Raphael Gerreiro.
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