Prince-Boateng: In Barcelona they made me say that Messi is better than Ronaldo, otherwise I wouldn’t have played. Messi didn’t talk at all

Kevin Prince-Boateng has a very rich football CV. He has tried 13 clubs in six different countries, one of them being Barcelona. It was there that he was made to say that Lionel Messi was better than Cristiano Ronaldo, even though he really felt the opposite.

He started his career at his hometown Hertha, then two years at Tottenham, short stints at Dortmund and Portsmouth, probably the peak of his career at AC Milan, then two years at Schalke, AC Milan again, his best season numerically at Las Palmas (10+4), then Frankfurt, Sassuolo and surprisingly Barcelona. After that, Fiorentina, Besiktas, Monza and a return to Hertha.

This is the wild and eventful career of Kevin Prince-Boateng. He, too, has had the chance to peek under the hood of football’s great rivalry between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

“Barcelona fans will hate me now, but I have always been a Real Madrid fan. But the club told me I must never say that or I wouldn’t play,” Prince-Boateng tells Rio Ferdinand’s Vibe with Five.

“Same with Messi. That was the biggest lie. Normally I tell the truth, but here I couldn’t. When they asked me who was the best player in the world, I had to say Messi to wear the Barcelona jersey,” the Ghanaian footballer added.

At the same time, he declassified a little behind the scenes of what Lionel Messi is like in the cabin. And it’s exactly what you’d probably expect. Introverted, quiet and taciturn.

“Messi is the captain, but he doesn’t talk at all. He’s only spoken to about one person in the cabin. We talked once, in the shower. He asked me if it was difficult to score goals in Italy because Cristiano was there. You could see the rivalry between them. I told him it was harder there because the defences take much more pride in keeping zero,” Prince-Boateng said.

“What Cristiano did there is crazy. But football is such that people forget very quickly. Now he’s being attacked and I’m thinking ‘what the hell are you talking about?’ The guy scored goals every game for three years straight,” the 36-year-old former footballer adds admiringly.

Source: Vibe with five