Why Teammates DIE for MESSI, But Not for RONALDO? — Transcript

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1. 0:00December 10, 2022. World Cup
2. 0:03quarter-final. Argentina versus
3. 0:05Netherlands. One of the most heated
4. 0:07matches [music] of the entire
5. 0:08tournament. Both teams were physical.
6. 0:10The atmosphere was electric and there
7. 0:12were arguments. In the 88th minute,
8. 0:14[music] both teams started fighting.
9. 0:16Then, something unusual happened.
10. 0:19Virgil van Dijk, the Netherlands
11. 0:21captain, the opponent, the man whose
12. 0:23entire job that night was to stop
13. 0:25Argentina, walked over to Messi. Not to
14. 0:28argue. [music]
15. 0:29Not to confront. He came to protect
16. 0:32Messi. Van Dijk put his hand on Messi's
17. 0:34shoulder.
18. 0:35>> [music]
19. 0:35>> He stood up for Messi, going against his
20. 0:37own teammates.
21. 0:39Just think about [music] it.
22. 0:40If an opponent gives Messi this much
23. 0:42respect in the heat of a battle, can you
24. 0:45imagine [music] how much respect his own
25. 0:46teammates have for him?
26. 0:48Players like De Paul, Emi Martínez,
27. 0:51>> [music]
28. 0:51>> and Paredes love Messi like crazy.
29. 0:54Now, look at Ronaldo.
30. 0:56The Portugal players [music] don't love
31. 0:57Ronaldo nearly as much as the Argentina
32. 1:00players love Messi. There are multiple
33. 1:02reasons behind this [music] that nobody
34. 1:04ever talks about. In this video of Footy
35. 1:06Tribe, you will find out exactly why
36. 1:08Messi gets all the love from his
37. 1:10teammates while [music] Ronaldo doesn't.
38. 1:12The first reason is European football
39. 1:15culture versus South American culture.
40. 1:17In Portugal, football culture is built
41. 1:19[music] around one thing, the team, the
42. 1:22system, the collective. European coaches
43. 1:25don't [music] want individuals. They
44. 1:26want units. Players defend together,
45. 1:29attack together. In European football,
46. 1:32the team is always bigger [music] than
47. 1:33any single player. Now, think about
48. 1:35Argentina. In Latin America, the culture
49. 1:38is completely different. Here,
50. 1:40individual players are not just
51. 1:42celebrated, they are worshipped.
52. 1:44>> [music]
53. 1:44>> They love the brilliant dribbler, the
54. 1:46magician with the ball, and that one
55. 1:48special player who can do what nobody
56. 1:50else can. Diego Maradona was not just a
57. 1:53footballer in Argentina, he was a god,
58. 1:56and Messi is [music] treated the exact
59. 1:57same way. Simply put, Europe doesn't
60. 2:00worship individuals, but Latin America
61. 2:03absolutely does. So,
62. 2:05>> [music]
63. 2:05>> when Portugal's young players grew up,
64. 2:07they saw minimal hype around Ronaldo.
65. 2:09But Argentina's current youngsters grew
66. 2:11up literally worshipping Messi [music]
67. 2:13as their idol. Julián Álvarez was born
68. 2:16in a tiny town called Calchín. Barely
69. 2:191,500 people live there. When Álvarez
70. 2:22was a child, the man on the television,
71. 2:25the man everyone talked about, was
72. 2:26Messi. Álvarez didn't grow up thinking
73. 2:29Messi was a great player. He grew up
74. 2:31thinking Messi was something beyond a
75. 2:33great player, something almost sacred.
76. 2:35[music] Enzo Fernández, Rodrigo De Paul,
77. 2:38Lautaro Martínez, they didn't just watch
78. 2:40Messi the way European kids watch good
79. 2:42players. They watched Messi the way
80. 2:44people watch someone [music]
81. 2:45untouchable. So, when these players
82. 2:47finally stood next to Messi in the
83. 2:48Argentina dressing [music] room for the
84. 2:50first time, it wasn't normal. It
85. 2:52couldn't be normal. In Argentina, Messi
86. 2:55is a religion. [music] In Portugal,
87. 2:57Ronaldo is a great player. So, the
88. 3:00emotion for Messi is much higher, and
89. 3:02for Ronaldo, it is much less. The second
90. 3:05reason behind [music] the two different
91. 3:06types of love Messi and Ronaldo receive
92. 3:08from their teammates is their playing
93. 3:10style. Messi is a playmaker. Yes, he
94. 3:13scores, but what defines Messi [music]
95. 3:15is that he makes everyone around him
96. 3:17better. Messi sees passes nobody else
97. 3:20[music] can see. He finds spaces that
98. 3:22don't seem to exist. Take the pass Messi
99. 3:25gave to Molina [music] in the 2022 World
100. 3:27Cup. Can Molina ever forget that? He
101. 3:30will proudly tell his grandchildren
102. 3:31about receiving that pass and scoring
103. 3:34the goal. In that same World Cup,
104. 3:36[music] the pass Messi gave to Álvarez
105. 3:38against Croatia is something Álvarez
106. 3:40will remember until his very last day.
107. 3:42This is how, as a playmaker, Messi won
108. 3:45the hearts of his teammates. Meanwhile,
109. 3:47Ronaldo is a finisher, a scorer,
110. 3:50extraordinary at [music] what he does.
111. 3:53but Ronaldo's game is about Ronaldo
112. 3:55scoring. When he has the ball in
113. 3:57dangerous positions, he shoots. That is
114. 4:00his role. The team works for Ronaldo.
115. 4:03Wingers create space for Ronaldo.
116. 4:06Midfielders recycle possession so
117. 4:08Ronaldo can attack. Fullbacks overlap to
118. 4:11deliver crosses for Ronaldo.
119. 4:13To put it in one line, [music] Ronaldo's
120. 4:15teammates serve him, whereas Messi
121. 4:17serves his teammates. Messi's teammates
122. 4:20feel like partners. Ronaldo's teammates
123. 4:22feel like suppliers. Not only that,
124. 4:25Messi [music] is more selfless than
125. 4:27Ronaldo. At Barcelona alone, Messi gave
126. 4:30more than 30 penalties to teammates
127. 4:31[music]
128. 4:32when he could have taken them himself.
129. 4:34Neymar got about 11 penalties from
130. 4:36Messi. Suarez got eight. With Argentina,
131. 4:40when Lautaro Martinez was going through
132. 4:42a bad run, Messi gave him a penalty. Now
133. 4:45look at Ronaldo. February [music] 2010,
134. 4:48Real Madrid secured a huge 5-2 victory
135. 4:51against Villarreal. In the dying moments
136. 4:53of the match, Real Madrid won a penalty.
137. 4:56By then, Ronaldo had already scored a
138. 4:58goal in the game. So, [music] central
139. 5:00midfielder Xabi Alonso went up to
140. 5:02Ronaldo and asked him for the penalty
141. 5:04[music] because he hadn't scored his
142. 5:06first goal for Real Madrid yet. Ronaldo,
143. 5:09somewhat reluctantly, handed the ball
144. 5:11over to Alonso. While the entire team
145. 5:13celebrated [music] after Alonso scored,
146. 5:15Ronaldo looked disappointed and walked
147. 5:17straight back to his own half without
148. 5:19joining the celebration. Do you see the
149. 5:21difference? Yes, Ronaldo has donated a
150. 5:24few penalties too, but there are many
151. 5:26incidents where he didn't [music] seem
152. 5:27happy with his teammates' goals. Messi
153. 5:30isn't like that. If it benefits the
154. 5:32team, Messi is happy. Ronaldo, however,
155. 5:35is a bit too self-centered. [music]
156. 5:37As a result, he receives a little less
157. 5:39love from his teammates. The third
158. 5:41reason is coach. Since 2018, [music]
159. 5:44Messi has had only one coach with
160. 5:46Argentina, Lionel Scaloni. One coach,
161. 5:49eight years, through Copa America,
162. 5:51through the Finalissima, [music]
163. 5:53through the World Cup. When a team stays
164. 5:55under one coach for that long, something
165. 5:57happens. Relationships [music] build,
166. 6:00trust grows, the dressing room becomes a
167. 6:02home, and Scaloni made one thing clear
168. 6:04from the beginning, Messi [music] is the
169. 6:06most important person in this team. Not
170. 6:09through words alone, through decisions,
171. 6:11through the way he speaks about Messi
172. 6:13publicly. Scaloni is not just Messi's
173. 6:16coach, Scaloni is Messi's fan. He has
174. 6:19said it openly, and when the person
175. 6:21making all the decisions looks at one
176. 6:23player [music] with that kind of
177. 6:24admiration, the rest of the squad
178. 6:26follows that signal. Now, go to Ronaldo
179. 6:28and Portugal. I'm not saying that
180. 6:30Portugal changed coaches constantly.
181. 6:33Fernando Santos was there for eight
182. 6:35years, from 2014 to 2022,
183. 6:38and Roberto Martinez has been in charge
184. 6:40from 2022 until now. But, the real
185. 6:44problem is Ronaldo's relationship with
186. 6:46the [music] coaches. No coach worked by
187. 6:48giving Ronaldo the ultimate priority. As
188. 6:50a result, [music] Ronald-mania did not
189. 6:53spread among the rest of the team, and
190. 6:55they never became a family.
191. 6:57In the 2022 World Cup, Santos dropped
192. 7:00Ronaldo from the starting lineup against
193. 7:02Switzerland. Portugal won 6-1. Goncalo
194. 7:05Ramos scored a hat-trick. The message
195. 7:08that was sent, Portugal can [music] win
196. 7:10without Ronaldo starting. Could you
197. 7:12imagine Scaloni doing that with Messi?
198. 7:15Ronaldo never had that opportunity. Not
199. 7:17one coach who believed in him the way
200. 7:19Scaloni believes in Messi. So, unlike
201. 7:21Messi, Ronaldo's teammates [music] do
202. 7:23not give him that same level of respect.
203. 7:26The fourth reason is enduring
204. 7:27heartbreak. While Messi was suffering
205. 7:30through one heartbreak after another,
206. 7:32Ronaldo was busy winning trophies. Let
207. 7:34me clear. 2014 [music]
208. 7:36World Cup final, Argentina lost to
209. 7:39Germany, 1-0, extra [music] time. 2015
210. 7:43Copa America final, Argentina lost to
211. 7:46Chile on penalties. [music]
212. 7:482016 Copa America final, Argentina lost
213. 7:52to Chile again on penalties again. Three
214. 7:55finals, three [music] heartbreaks in a
215. 7:57row, three times watching Messi cry. Now
216. 8:00imagine you are Julian Alvarez, a
217. 8:02teenager. [music] You grew up loving
218. 8:04Messi. You watched him give everything
219. 8:06and you watched him lose and lose and
220. 8:08lose. Then one day you walk into the
221. 8:10Argentina training [music] ground and
222. 8:12Messi is there, the same man you watched
223. 8:14cry on television and now he is your
224. 8:16teammate. What do you feel? You feel
225. 8:19like you would give your life for Messi.
226. 8:21Emiliano [music] Martinez made it very
227. 8:23clear. He didn't celebrate Messi's
228. 8:25birthday before the 2022 [music]
229. 8:26World Cup. He said he wanted his gift to
230. 8:29Messi to be the World Cup trophy. That
231. 8:31level of loyalty comes from pain, shared
232. 8:34pain, years of watching the same man
233. 8:36suffer and then finally getting the
234. 8:38chance to end [music] it. Now look at
235. 8:40Ronaldo. Ronaldo won Euro 2016. After
236. 8:43that, Ronaldo wasn't desperate to win
237. 8:45anything else for Portugal. The pressure
238. 8:47was off. So, his teammates never felt
239. 8:50that same [music] desperate urge to win
240. 8:52a trophy for him, the way Argentina felt
241. 8:54for Messi. Pain creates loyalty and
242. 8:57Messi had more international pain than
243. 8:59Ronaldo. The last and the ultimate
244. 9:01[music] reason is humble versus ego.
245. 9:04Messi is super humble. In 2023, Messi
246. 9:07[music] left for a club trip to Saudi
247. 9:09Arabia without getting permission from
248. 9:11PSG first. The club suspended [music]
249. 9:13him for 2 weeks, no training, no
250. 9:16matches. In that situation, most
251. 9:19superstars would stay silent or let
252. 9:21their agent handle it or simply wait for
253. 9:23the club to back down because the club
254. 9:25always backs down when the player
255. 9:27[music] is big enough. But Messi did
256. 9:29none of that. He filmed a video. He
257. 9:32looked directly into the camera and he
258. 9:34apologized clearly, personally, without
259. 9:38[music] making excuses. He said he
260. 9:40thought the trip was already approved.
261. 9:42He said he was wrong not to confirm it,
262. 9:44and he said, "Sorry." That video shocked
263. 9:47many people, not because [music] the
264. 9:49mistake was so big, but because a player
265. 9:51of Messi's status, a man with eight
266. 9:53Ballon d'Ors, chose to sit down and
267. 9:55apologize on [music] camera like any
268. 9:57other normal person who made a mistake.
269. 10:00Now look at Ronaldo. In 2022, Ronaldo
270. 10:03had a problem with his Manchester United
271. 10:05manager, Erik ten Hag. Ten Hag asked
272. 10:09Ronaldo to come on as a substitute in a
273. 10:11match against [music] Tottenham. Ronaldo
274. 10:13refused. He walked off the bench. He
275. 10:15left the stadium [music] before the
276. 10:16final whistle while the match was still
277. 10:18being played. His manager asked him to
278. 10:20play, and Ronaldo said no. Ten Hag
279. 10:23[music] suspended him. Now compare the
280. 10:25two moments side by side. One is
281. 10:28incredibly humble, while the other is
282. 10:30full of ego. This very humbleness is why
283. 10:32Messi's teammates love him so much.
284. 10:35Messi never makes anyone feel [music]
285. 10:36like he is bigger than the rest. These
286. 10:39are the exact reasons why Messi has won
287. 10:41the absolute love and respect of his
288. 10:43teammates. And Ronaldo?
289. 10:45>> [music]
290. 10:45>> He just remains another regular player
291. 10:47to his teammates.
292. 10:48At the end of the day, respect can't be
293. 10:50bought. It has to be earned.
294. 10:56>> [music]