{"id":2027,"date":"2023-11-14T08:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T08:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/alexis-sanchez-snubs-messi-ronaldo-names-best-footballer-ever\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T08:04:56","slug":"alexis-sanchez-snubs-messi-ronaldo-names-best-footballer-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/alexis-sanchez-snubs-messi-ronaldo-names-best-footballer-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Sanchez snubs Messi, Ronaldo, names best footballer ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Arsenal and Barcelona striker, Alexis Sanchez, has snubbed Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi and Portugal\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo while naming Brazilian legend Ronaldo Nazario as the best footballer ever.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez played alongside Messi during their time together at Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The pair won the La Liga title in the 2011-2012 season, among other trophies.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sanchez was never teammates with Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>The Chile international played against the Portugal international 17 times.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the GOAT debate, Sanchez said (via MD Futbol): \u201cRonaldo [Brazilian Ronaldo], the Phenomenon for me, is the world number one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have played with many strong players, I have seen Messi and Ronaldo up close, but he is something else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he made that fake and went at a mile an hour, it was incredible, a beautiful thing to see in football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Sanchez snubs Messi, Ronaldo, names best footballer ever<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal and Barcelona striker, Alexis Sanchez, has snubbed Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi and Portugal\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo while naming Brazilian legend&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2634,15,3820,160],"tags":[3823,3494,2659,3264,2638,351,180,3821,3822,2719,201],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-messi","category-news","category-ronaldo","category-sport","tag-alexis","tag-best","tag-ever","tag-footballer","tag-messi","tag-names","tag-news","tag-ronaldo","tag-sanchez","tag-snubs","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}