Iker Casillas attended a La Liga and ESPN event on Friday in New York, the day before El Clásico between Real Madrid and Barcelona. The former player recalled the duels against the eternal Catalan rival in which Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi featured.
“It’s a game that has the strength and exclusivity to stop everyone at any moment. Wherever you go, in any corner of the planet, everyone always talks about Madrid x Barcelona. It’s a rivalry that has been going on for a long time and I think that it is very good and very positive that, in this case, Barcelona, which has been going through a very difficult economic situation, is providing players to be able to compete and fight for the League with Real Madrid”, Casillas began saying, quoted by the newspaper AS.
The former goalkeeper also considered it very difficult for the current stars of the two rivals to catch up to Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
“I was lucky enough to live with Cristiano Ronaldo and unlucky enough to live with Lionel Messi. But we are talking about two players who are out of the ordinary. These two monsters made us think it was easy. I think football, positioning and legacy What they leave for those who come after them is complicated. And we are talking about incredible players like Mbappé, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Lewandowski, Yamal…. It will be difficult to compare them to what Cristiano and Messi were, but even so, This is evolving, the wheel is turning and players will continue to emerge”, he continued.
Casillas was also in favor of some La Liga games being played in the United States.
“It’s a question of evolution. In the end, the fact that it is already being considered that, for example, La Liga could come and play in the USA seems to me to be an evolution of the competition, something that is positive, something that people demand In the end, it’s a matter of opening the mind a little, the criteria, and for people to reach an agreement. Barcelona-Atlético, Girona-Real Sociedad, I think is something that can be very positive and that, above all. Everything reinforces the brand in terms of global positioning”, he concluded.
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