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Messi won four consecutive Ballon d'Or awards (2009 to 2012), with a fifth coming in 2015, while Ronaldo had equalled Messi's total of five with wins in 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017. In 2019, Messi took the lead again by earning a record sixth Ballon d'Or, finishing just seven points ahead of second-placed Virgil van Dijk , with Ronaldo ...
Lionel Messi rolled back the years with a vintage performance for Argentina on Tuesday, scoring three goals in his nation’s 6-0 thrashing of Bolivia in a 2026 World Cup qualifier.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the UEFA Champions league all-time top goalscorer with 140 goals while Messi is second with 129 to his name. [177] The pair had broken each other's record over the course of 2015, after Messi surpassed the previous recordholder, Raúl , in November 2014. [ 178 ]
Only Messi (on 8 March 2012 against Bayer Leverkusen), Luiz Adriano (on 21 October 2014 against BATE Borisov) and Erling Haaland (on 14 March 2023 against RB Leipzig) have scored five goals in a match. [3] [4] [5] Only Ronaldo (four times), Messi, Lewandowski and Benzema (twice each) have scored multiple hat-tricks in the knockout stage. [6]
Messi and Ronaldo, who turns 39 on February 5, have faced each other 35 times over their careers, with Messi winning 16 times and Ronaldo 10.
The all-time soccer greats did not make the men's world team of the year organized by global players’ union FIFPRO on Monday. The 37-year-old Messi, who plays for MLS side Inter Miami, and the ...
Argentine legend Lionel Messi has won the award a record 6 times overall. Year Player Club 2012 [3] ... Lionel Messi: 6: Cristiano Ronaldo: 2 ... Statistics; Cookie ...
The Al-Nassr-Inter Miami match was set to be the 36th time Ronaldo and Messi faced one another. Messi's teams have won 16 of the matchups, and Ronaldo's teams have won 10. The other nine matches ...