Cristiano and Leo: #whoisthegreatest - Softcover

Burns, Jimmy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509849149 ISBN 13: 9781509849147

Publisher: Macmillan, 2019

Synopsis

A Financial Times Sports Books of the Year 2018

Cristiano and Leo is the fascinating account of the lives and rivalry between two of the best footballers to ever play the game, Ronaldo and Messi by Jimmy Burns, the bestselling author of Maradona: The Hand of God.

The rivalry between Ronaldo and Messi has defined football to a generation of fans – everyone has an opinion on who is the greatest.

Do you prefer Ronaldo whose work ethic and physique have been honed for one purpose – scoring goals. Or Messi, whose superhuman natural talent means he can do the seemingly impossible with a football.

Between them they have scored over 1300 goals, won the Ballon d’Or ten times, and taken the beautiful game to even greater heights. But statistics alone cannot do justice to their skill, athleticism and dedication to stay at the top for so long of one of the most competitive sports in the world.

Cristiano and Leo tells their definitive story, from children kicking a ball halfway around the world from each other to facing each other in the epic clash El Clįsico, between Real Madrid and Barcelona. This is the essential book to understand one the most compelling rivalries in sporting history.

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Review

A thoroughly researched dual biography by the great Jimmy Burns. Author: Simon Kuper, author of The Football Men

I am eating up this book. The verve with which Burns writes about the power politics and rich supporting characters like Florentino and Ferguson makes it a captivating read. Author: Richard Fitzpatrick, author of El Clįsico: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Football’s Greatest Rivalry

Burns is incapable of writing a boring sentence Source: Irish Times

From the Back Cover

A Financial Times Sports Book of the Year 2018 pick

The rivalry between Ronaldo and Messi has defined football for a generation of fans. Everyone has an opinion on who is the greatest.

Do you prefer Ronaldo, whose work ethic and physique have been honed for one purpose – scoring goals? Or Messi, whose superhuman natural talent means he can do the seemingly impossible with a football?

Between them they have scored over 1,300 goals, won the Ballon d’Or ten times and taken the beautiful game to even greater heights. But statistics alone cannot do justice to their skill, athleticism and dedication to stay at the top of one of the most competitive sports in the world for so long.

Cristiano & Leo tells their definitive story, from children kicking a ball halfway around the world from each other to going head to head in the epic El Clįsico clash between Real Madrid and Barcelona. This is the essential book to understand one of the most compelling rivalries in sporting history.

‘A thoroughly researched dual biography by the great Jimmy Burns’ Simon Kuper, author of Soccernomics

‘I am eating up this book. The verve with which Burns writes about the power politics and rich supporting characters like Florentino and Ferguson makes it a captivating read’ Richard Fitzpatrick, author of El Clįsico: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Football’s Greatest Rivalry

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1509849149
• ISBN 13: 9781509849147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416