Cricket mega-star Virat Kohli considers Lionel Messi \u201ca freak\u201d, though believes Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s work ethic enables him to contest with his age-old rival. The 29-year-old Argentinian and a 31-year-old Portuguese are battling with Antoine Griezmann to turn The Best FIFA Men\u2019s Player for 2016. <\/p>\n
“I take a lot of impulse from Cristiano Ronaldo,\u201d Kohli, one of a biggest batsmen in history, told a England and Wales Cricket Board<\/em>. \u201cMy training regime is bound by a trainer. But a approach Ronaldo has stayed on tip for so many years, it’s down to zero though tough work. <\/p>\n “I have listened that Ronaldo is a many overworked footballer in a world, and that’s since he is where he is. Messi is a freak, though this man is giving him a run for his income since of his tough work.\u201d<\/p>\n \nKohli, who owns large cricketing annals and is a large football fan, came eighth on ESPN\u2019s<\/em> 2016 list of a many famous athletes in a world, forward of a likes of Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic and Floyd Mayweather Jr. It was surfaced by Ronaldo, with Lebron James in second and Messi and Neymar in third and fourth respectively.<\/p>\n \nThe Best FIFA Men\u2019s Player will be crowned during The Best FIFA Football Awards\u2122 rite in Zurich on 9 Jan 2017. <\/p>\n Article source: http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/the-best-fifa-football-awards\/news\/y=2017\/m=1\/news=kohli-i-take-a-lot-of-inspiration-from-ronaldo-2862237.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cricket mega-star Virat Kohli considers Lionel Messi \u201ca freak\u201d, though believes Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s work ethic enables him to contest with his age-old rival. The 29-year-old Argentinian and a 31-year-old Portuguese are battling with Antoine Griezmann to turn The Best FIFA Men\u2019s Player for 2016. “I take a lot of impulse from Cristiano Ronaldo,\u201d Kohli, one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-61718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-fifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}