The psychological aspect of the Messi vs Ronaldo debate
A study
A study
Last week, I put a poll on Instagram asking you guys if you changed your take on the Messi vs Ronaldo debate since your original childhood choice.
Among the people in question, 80% of them admitted to have kept the same opinion regarding the Messi vs Ronaldo debate. Huge.
Among the people in question, 80% of them admitted to have kept the same opinion regarding the Messi vs Ronaldo debate. Huge.
Then, I asked the two specific fanbases if they changed their choice. According to my results, 88% of original Messi fans didn’t change their opinion compared to only 43% for Ronaldo. However, I doubt that those numbers are perfectly accurate due to some fans sabotaging the polls
I then asked specific questions to 100 persons who changed their original opinion. For the CR7 to Messi change, the main reason was because they started watching more games (88%). Among them, 68% changed directly after watching only a few games, the other 32% took some time.
Here are two people explaining their change from Ronaldo to Messi.
For the Messi to Ronaldo change, the reasons are more mixed. 61% of them changed their way of thinking (more importance on clutchness and mental) and 32% of them simply slowly changed their opinion by watching games. Most of them changed around 2016 when Portugal won the euros.
Here are 2 people explaining their change from Ronaldo to Messi.
About my personal experience , I I preferred Messi in primary school as I had a friend who supported Barca. Then I started saying that CR7 was better when he joined Juventus. And since early 2021, I officially ranked Messi higher even though I deeply knew it since a long time.
To conclude, more original Ronaldo fans change their original choice than Messi fans. Ronaldo —> Messi fans changed it more often for football reasons but Messi —> Ronaldo fans changed it more for things such as mentality and other off-pitch reasons.
Still, the most important information to take from this is how 80%of Messi/Ronaldo fans never changed their first childhood opinion on those player.
It is a reflection of the generic football fan. You don’t debate against people, but their preconceptions.
It is a reflection of the generic football fan. You don’t debate against people, but their preconceptions.
This tweet is supposed to say from *Messi to *Ronaldo not the opposite.
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