On Saturday,
November 19 2022, football fans worldwide were blown away by a photo of Lionel
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing chess. Both
Messi and Ronaldo took to Instagram to share the picture, which sees the
legendary duo playing chess on Louis Vuitton briefcases. Messi equally shared
the picture on his Facebook page.
The
picture went viral pretty fast on Instagram, racking up more than 10 million
likes across Ronaldo and Messi's accounts in just over 30 minutes. Both players
captioned the photo "Victory is a State of Mind." The picture was
taken by the famous photographer Annie Leibovitz as an ad campaign for
Louis Vuitton.
Fans
have long longed to see the duo play together. There's a possibility that
Ronaldo and Messi face each other in the Qatar World Cup. Argentina plays
its first match in the tournament against Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, and Portugal
against Ghana on Thursday.
In
his explosive interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, Ronaldo talked about his
relationship and said great things about
the 35-year old.
He said: "Amazing player is magic, top… As a person, we share the stage 16 years, imagine, 16 years we share. So, I have great relationship with him. I'm not friend of him in terms of, what I mean friend is the guy who was with you in your house, speaking on the phone, no, but it's like a teammate.
"He’s a guy that I really respect the way he always speak about me. Even his wife or my wife, my girlfriend, they always respect and they're from Argentina. My girlfriend is from Argentina. So good. What I am going to say about Messi? A great guy who does great things for football.”
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