Real Madrid legend heap praise for Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale
Real Madrid great Paco Gento says both Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are the amazing players, and has backed Los Blancos to win the Champions League.
“We’ll win the same as in Portugal. We have a great team, great players and we can’t fail. We have to fight like wild beasts for 90 minutes, which is how triumphs are achieved. We’ve never played for a draw, always going to win and that’s how we have achieved many successes,” he said, Marca reports.
Real Madrid legend heap praise for Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale
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“Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are amazing. There’s hardly anyone like them. Bale is very quick and he has a great shot. If they linked up a bit more we’d win more games.”
Meanwhile, Jorge Valdano disused football developments and state the difference between Messi and Ronaldo.
“It was a diplomatic effort, because if the best football is played, then that’s the best League. The rest is packaging, marketing, impeccable stadiums, very good organisation, issues that aren’t to do with playing,” he noted, AS reports.
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“In Spain, don’t look at what was done well yesterday if not 10 years ago, with a revolution that has a name and a surname, tiki taka, which created a new world where the ball is the formative centre of the player. And in collective skill, Spain has a vast superiority.
“I’ve been in Spain over 30 years and for a long time I was the only world champion. Suddenly they’ve mushroomed. It brought status to the Spanish player, self-esteem, began to feel like leaders and the equals of any players in the world.
“In Spain the revolution was mostly technical. Very small players have been admitted, when in another era they would have had problems and that’s a sign of evolution, that what’s measured is the size of the talent.
“Ronaldo is the player of the 21st century. Messi is from the street and Ronaldo the gym. He has more mechanical movements, more robotic. It starts with the ability to give the ball to a shirt of the same colour. For that, whether you’re big or small is indifferent.
“The struggle between opposites is very entertaining and will never end. It’s as old as football and in 50 years there’ll be other names.”