Crisitano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi divides people around the world, with many a friendship coming to end over the ‘greatness’ of one over the other football champion. However one couple in Russia went as far as to get divorced over the debate – Ronaldo or Messi! ‘Argumento I Fakti’ a newspaper in Russia reported that a man got into an argument with his wife after Messi’s Argentina defeated Nigeria.
The football-mad couple, named only as ‘Arsen’ and ‘Lyudmila’ by the newspaper, started fighting after the husband celebrated Argentina’s victory. He decided to pack his things and leave when his wife kept insisting that Ronaldo is better.
The husband later speaking to the press recollected that he and his wife had first met in a bar while watching the 2002 World Cup and had fallen in love talking about football. “Since the beginning of the World Cup, she mocked Messi and said he couldn’t even score a penalty against Iceland. I could not contain myself and told her what I thought about the vain Ronaldo, the Portuguese national team and all the clubs she likes,” he said.
“Then I took my belongings and left her forever,” he added. He informed the media that this was not the first time they have gotten into an argument, but next morning he decided that the marriage was over and he filed for divorce at the courts of the city of Chelyabinsk in the Urals. But in the round of 16, both Ronaldo and Messi crashed out of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. That too on the same day.