Edu Aguirre is not just any journalist talking about Cristiano Ronaldo. He is his declared friend, and on El Chiringuito de Jugones he made it very clear: “Messi will never have Cristiano’s mentality”.
The remark came right after Portugal thrashed Uzbekistan 5-0 in their 2026 World Cup debut, with a brace from Cristiano included. For Aguirre, neither the hunger nor the ferocity nor the desire to win of the Portuguese exists in Messi’s DNA. He even asked the rest of the Portugal squad — Vitinha, João Neves, Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes — to copy at least half of that personality.
But social media did not forget this remark after Portugal’s defeat and elimination against Spain in Cristiano Ronaldo’s last World Cup. Is Aguirre right, or was Messi’s hunger to win already proven with a World Cup in his hands? 🐐⚽