Ballon d'Or Lionel Messi calls his rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo "wonderful", but insists he isn't motivated to best the Portuguese.
The Paris Saint-Germain superstar was awarded the gong for the seventh time this week, with CR7 snubbing the ceremony altogether.
The pair have dominated football for over a decade, with Ronaldo himself taking home the Ballon d'Or on five occasions. They've won a combined 69 trophies, both scored more than 700 goals, both broken the 50-goal mark in a single season and they were rivals for Real Madrid and Barcelona.
And while the Argentine believes the competition helped take both himself and Ronaldo to new levels, he insists he was never motivated to get the better of his counterpart.Messi told France
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