{"id":149865,"date":"2025-02-11T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/its-embarrassing-ridiculous-carragher-slams-ronaldo-over-goat-comment"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:27:21","slug":"its-embarrassing-ridiculous-carragher-slams-ronaldo-over-goat-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/its-embarrassing-ridiculous-carragher-slams-ronaldo-over-goat-comment","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s embarrassing, ridiculous\u2019 \u2013 Carragher slams Ronaldo over \u2018GOAT\u2019 comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Liverpool defender, Jamie Carragher, has lambasted iconic football star, Cristiano Ronaldo, over his recent comment on being the very best.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, who plays his football at Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, had recently insisted he was the greatest player the world has ever known.<\/p>\n<p>This comment meant that, to him, the likes of Lionel Messi and other icons are below his standard.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher accused the Portugal international of participating in pre-planned interviews and compared his attitude with Messi\u2019s humble nature.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo has five Ballons d\u2019Or to his name and at 40-year-old the former Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus superstar is still going strong.<\/p>\n<p>He is the highest goal scorer in football history with 924 career goals from 1262 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>In his recent interview with his friend Edu Aguirre, Ronaldo proclaimed himself to be the most complete player ever.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Liverpool defender was far from impressed by the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher told Amazon Prime, via Bolavip,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing&#8230;he\u2019s one of the greats and he doesn\u2019t have to do interviews every month to say it himself. 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