Years After Retirement, Popular Media Personality Once Ranked Alex Rodriguez With Serena Williams and Lionel Messi Among “Iconic Global Athletes”

Alex Rodriguez is a jack of all trades. He possesses a remarkable ability to excel in whatever he sets his mind to. Since he was a kid, the retired ballplayer only had two significant dreams. Play baseball for a living and be the CEO of a company. At 47 years old, A-Rod can proudly say that he has been more than successful at each and is still unstoppable.

One of the most well-known names in the country, the former Yankee constantly made headlines in his active years. Not only was he an excellent athlete, but he was also a hotheaded young player prone to making personal comments. Nevertheless, those years of fame persisted after retirement, and a media personality even compared him to other big sports names.

Colin Cowherd placed Alex Rodriguez in the same category as Serena Williams and Lionel Messi

Not everyone is a sports fan, but almost everyone follows pop culture. And there are a few athlete names that only the rare few are unfamiliar with. Michael Jordan, Usain Bolt, Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Lionel Messi, and Cristiano Ronaldo, among many others. For Colin Cowherd, A-Rod is on that list too.

A few years ago, Rodriguez appeared in an interview with the sports media personality Colin Cowherd and discussed baseball. Adding to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cowherd mentioned some famous global sports personalities.

“There are very few athletes in America – you are still the most-known baseball player, I would say, in America right now. So there’s an iconic stature that very few – at any time, there’s maybe ten iconic global athletes. Serena, Messi, you’re in that stature,” Cowherd tells Rodriguez in the video.

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Although the video came a few years after the former Yankee’s retirement in 2016, Rodriguez was a globally beloved player, especially in his parents’ native Dominican Republic.

A-Rod left the Dominican Republic upset after representing Team USA at the 2006 WBC

Ahead of the 2006 World Baseball Classic, many assumed that Rodriguez would choose the DR to represent. His ultimate decision to select the US disappointed many of his fans from the Caribbean country, so he sought to rectify that mistake a few years later.

In 2009, A-Rod chose to play as part of the Dominican team. He even told ESPN that it was his mother’s dream to have her son wear her country’s colors. Unfortunately, he had to pull out of the tournament due to hip surgery, and his country didn’t get to take home the victory that year.

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