Former teammate of Lionel Messi at FC Barcelona, Kevin-Prince Boateng made an astonishing confession.
Who is better, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? Asked about this eternal debate when he was loaned to FC Barcelona in January 2019, Kevin-Prince Boateng instantly decided in favor of the Argentinian. A response that was anything but sincere. “When I was asked who was the best player in the world, I said Messi. This is one of my biggest lies, because I usually tell the truth. But I couldn’t say it because it was the only way to wear the Barça jersey.”he told Rio Ferdinand, in the podcast FIVE.
“Barça fans will hate me”
Retired since the end of last season and the relegation of Hertha Berlin to Bundesliga 2, the former Ghanaian international (36 years old) even confided having been “forced to lie” on this subject to be able to sign with the Blaugrana. And that’s not the only fib he had to tell to make himself look good to the culés, he, the fan of the… rival Merengue. “Barça fans will hate me, but I was a Real Madrid fan. I was asked at a press conference what my favorite club was and I said Barcelona,” he confessed.
And to add that “La Pulga” had also come to the information about its great rival “CR7”, who had left Real Madrid to join Juventus Turin in Serie A, in the summer of 2018. “Messi asked me how difficult it was to score in Italy because Cristiano Ronaldo was there at the time. I told him it was very difficult, and yet Cristiano scored in every match for three years! »revealed the one who arrived at the time of Sassuolo and has, in total, only played four ends of matches in the Barcelona jersey.
