[General] I feel very lucky for....

[Silverobama]

Among Chinese football fans there is a saying that we are happy because we can see Messi and Ronaldo play football. These two are brilliant football players. Watching their playing soccer is enjoyable. I wrote a sentence to express this idea:

I feel very lucky for have been born in the era of Messi and Ronaldo.

Is my sentence natural?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Among Chinese football fans there is a saying that we are happy because we can see Messi and Ronaldo play football. These two are brilliant football players. Watching their playing soccer is enjoyable. I wrote a sentence to express this idea:

I feel very lucky for have been born in the era of Messi and Ronaldo.

Is my sentence natural?

It is. You could also say in the days of.

Since it's easier to follow the with a consonant and we native English speakers are lazy, days might be a little more natural.

 

[jutfrank]

I feel very lucky to have been born in the era of Messi and Ronaldo.

 

[GoesStation]

Watching [STRIKE]their[/STRIKE] them playing soccer is enjoyable.

See above.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I feel very lucky to have been born in the era of Messi and Ronaldo.

Oops. I missed that. Thanks.