Is Cristiano Ronaldo invited to Lionel Messi’s wedding, today?

Anyone who would assume Cristiano Ronaldo is invited to Messi’s wedding is pretty daft at best. And for several reasons.

Messi inviting Ronaldo to his wedding would be like Gianluigi Buffon inviting Dele Alli to his. It makes no fucking sense.

Firstly, the two players aren’t even friends nor probably even acquaintances. They’re both extremely reserved when it comes to friend groups and Ronaldo even more so because unlike Messi he doesn’t even hang out with his teammates (except for the Portuguese ones and even that is rare). Cristiano only spends time with a select few of his Portuguese childhood friends and family, so if you’re neither of those your chances are astronomically low to be within his trusted circle of friends. Messi didn’t even invite some current/former teammates so then why on earth would he invite Cristiano? They’re just not friends and that is understandable. Just because they’re at the top of their sport doesn’t mean they have to be buddy-buddy, especially because they play on opposite sides of the fiercest rivalry in football. Which leads me to my next point.

They’re rivals.

You know it. I know it. They know it. The media know it. Their families know it. Their dogs know it. Even Cristiano’s pair of twins that were just born know it.

The two players can deny it all they want or play it down, but deep down they know that they are each other’s rivals on the pitch. How could they not be anyway? They’ve claimed the 9 last Balon d’Ors, their teams directly compete against one another in the league, and they’re both the leading goal scorers for their teams. The rivalry exists. People try to blame the press for sensationalizing it, but it exists, so just come to terms with it. Ronaldo and Messi are civil about it merely because they’ve been media-trained and they’re not stupid. Football isn’t the UFC in which prior to the fight the opponents are trash-talking the living sh*t out of one another. Football for the most part is a gentleman’s game and as such the two superstars must remain gentlemanly for their personas/brands/images. Nonetheless, they are rivals. Don’t let a picture of Cristiano playfully grabbing Messi’s thigh at the Balon d’Or ceremony trick you. Did you forget that they’re forced to sit together at that event? I bet you did.