# Messi, Maradona and Cristiano Ronaldo: Who Is the Greatest Ever

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2116900680522662339
- Source account: [@messi62682](https://x.com/messi62682)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:27
- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever) Who is the best player in history? In history?

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=3) Yes, for you. Messi. No doubt? No doubt. That brings us back to what we said before.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=9) Right. I've seen Maradona in videos, and when I hear people talk about Maradona, damn, you think, "Fuck, he must have been incredible."

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=15) But Messi... I mean, Messi has been... I remember, I faced Messi in the youth division in the Copa del Rey.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=24) I was seventeen, 23 years ago. We got Barça, and then, I mean, they were already telling us, "Wow, there's a little Argentine, Messi."

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=34) And we played against them. It's just— Hell, right?

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=38) What is this? What dominance. I mean, that guy has spent 20, 21, 22 years, every year at the highest level, playing 60 matches, always being the best.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=51) I have no doubt. I mean, the comparison that there could have been before Messi-Cristiano, I think that Cristiano, uh, I mean, has a…

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=60) I mean, he is, how do you say it… He doesn't have Messi's abilities, because they're innate, he's pure talent.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=67) But for Cristiano to have managed to compete with Messi, Uh, at that level, wow, it means that Cristiano, I mean, has incredible merit.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=80) Would you put him second? Or would you put someone else?

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=86) It's just that Cristiano, like, gosh, Cristiano has been so good, he's scored important goals all the time.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=94) I think I'd put Maradona second because of, because of what they say he was, right?

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=98) But Messi, hey, but Cristiano is definitely among the top three or five, especially, especially because he competed with, with a guy like Messi for so many years without having that talent Messi has, which is, it's incredible.

[1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=112) Now, when you see many players who played at Madrid with Cristiano and you ask them who the best is, they all say Messi.

[1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=119) So you say... I mean, of course, if I'm playing with Cristiano and you ask me who the best player in the world is, I'd say Cristiano.

[2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=126) I mean, ten years later, once everything's over, you ask me, it might change, right? And many do change.

[2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HkeLlrLoTeUe/en/messi-maradona-and-cristiano-ronaldo-who-is-the-greatest-ever?t=134) And I think there's no doubt, right? All of us who've played football and have been on a pitch with Messi, uh, what he does is, nobody else does it.