Barcelona;
Turin – In what promised to be a mouth-watering prospective, two of the
greatest players in modern football will face each other when their respective
teams Barcelona and Juventus meet in the champions league tournament set to
start on October 20th. The Spanish Catalonian team along with the
Italian giant Juventus were drawn into Group G during the champions league draw
held on Thursday.
A minute of
silence for the other two teams in group G, Dynamo Kiev and Fererncvaros who
will face the giants in the competition. UEFA Champions League trophy has been
the most coveted prize in club football with the top teams in Europe vying for
the trophy in a fixture calendar that stretches till next year’s May.
Previously, Lionel Messi have won four champion league titles with Barcelona
whereas Cristiano Ronaldo have won five champion league titles with Manchester
United in 2008 and four times with Real Madrid in the subsequent years.
Fans have
been long divided over who the greatest player in the modern era is. Football
experts and fans alike agree that both players are of a different kind, a kind
that exists once in an era. Messi and Ronaldo have had been compared to past
legendary players such as Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff and the legendary
Brazilian player Pele. Few fans would go as far as saying Messi and Ronaldo’s
talent traverse past players like Pele and Maradona. The Argentinian play-maker
Messi had been signed to Barcelona at the age of 16. It is widely known in the footballing world that Messi’s initial
contract with the Spanish club was signed on a paper napkin. As for the
Portuguese legend, Ronaldo came mainstream attention when he played under Sir
Alex Ferguson at Manchester United. Later, he joined the Spanish giants Real
Madrid at a record-free at that time and played under Carlo Ancelotti and
former France and Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane.
Due to the
coronavirus pandemic, the football world as fans know it has changed drastically
over the past few months. Clubs came to halt in late March but resumed playing
in mid-June with no fans in attendance.
