Chelsea flop Gonzalo Higuain reveals the trick to playing with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi is ‘serving’ them
GONZALO HIGUAIN claims the only way to play alongside legends Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo is to “serve” them obediently.
Higuain happily admits he became a servant on the pitch for Messi with Argentina and Ronaldo at Real Madrid and Juventus.
The former Chelsea flop is now with David Beckham‘s Inter Miami after the rare honour of being a team-mate to football’s two greatest superstars of the century.
And the striker, 33, told Christian Vieri’s Bobo TV: “I was fortunate to play with both.
“They are at a level so high that you have to adapt them to serve them.
“With Messi and Ronaldo the side have at the least three or four goal situations a game, if you ‘re smart and you understand.
“For me it was a privilege.”
Becks has publicly stated he would love to lure Messi, who is 34 next week, and/or Ronaldo, 36, to his fledgling MLS club.
And in fact Barcelona’s one-club icon Messi has been buying up property in Miami.
But Higuain insists the USA is not the gentle step-down he thought it would be – and might even be TOUGHER than the Premier League.
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He said: “I thought I would come here and play with a cigarette in my mouth and instead it is difficult.
“The MLS is a tough league. I learned that it is similar to Italian football.
“In Spain and England it is easier to do well, while in Italy, if you do not know the league, you suffer.”
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