The 10 Times Lionel Messi Utterly Embarrassed A Great Player 6
6. Roberto Carlos finds out that Ronaldinho wasn’t lying.
After Ronaldinho received the Ballon d’Or in 2006 he famously said, “This award says I’m the best player in the world. I’m not even the best player at Barcelona.” He was talking about Lionel Messi.
You can imagine the kind of uproar that his words caused. Some people believed him, others did not. We wonder where Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos fit into that spectrum when he met a young Lionel Messi himself?