Former star has opened up on his hardest opponents.
The ex-striker received two titles and UEFA Champions League crown in three seasons in Catalonia from 2010 to 2013.
He later moved on and clinched one other league trophy at in 2014 plus a UEFA Euro 2008 and FIFA 2010 World Cup double with Spain.
His 59 targets for Spain retains him prime of the all-time La Roja objective scorers checklist and he stays considered one of Spanish soccer’s biggest ever strikers.
Nonetheless, regardless of his private love for scoring targets, he highlighted one other Barcelona icon as his ‘most spectacular La Liga opponent’ – with extra famed for his artistic wizardry.
“Ronaldinho is the rival who impressed me most. Whenever you play soccer, you see the celebs of different groups, and also you wish to face them,” as per quotes from .
“I might say Ronaldinho or Ronaldo Nazario had been those. After I was at Zaragoza, I used to be all the time able to play in opposition to them, even when later we suffered.”
Villa’s two years at Actual Zaragoza noticed him win the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Supercup in 2004, as Ronaldinho received a league title in 2005, and Ronaldo clinched the 2004 Pichichi Award.
