5 negative aspects of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing in the same team

#2 Unharmonious team

The duo’s success is because of their hard work and determination

Once the rivalry goes to the head, it becomes impossible to play as a team. The Ballon d’Or is the holy grail of individual football awards. On most occasions, the team titles are given the first preference to judge a player’s contribution to the game.

However, if these two were in the same team, the aforementioned criteria of team titles would have rendered futile and then it would be down to individualism. And in that race, each player could be driven by selfish motives of their own, harming the team in the process.

Ultimately, this could have caused a divide among the players where some would be in the Messi party and the others under the banner of the Portuguese—and that is the last thing any team, that aspires to win titles, would want.