The Best Player : Closing in on Ronaldo and Messi
Hello,
Football is undoubtedly the best sport ever to exist in our world. It has emotional, health, and entertainment attributes.
There exist countless teams around the world, both national and club teams and thousands of players.
The game has experienced a lot of quality and skillful players who are mostly referred to as legends.
Most at-times you will see people debating on which team is the best or which player is the all-time best.
Such debates add to the beauty of football. The most popular players in our present age are Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and any football fan is on the side of either of them as to who is all-time best.
Yes, we see old players like Ronaldo and Maradona been mentioned amongst the best players and indeed they were good. Notwithstanding, Messi and Ronaldo are outstanding. Their period of consistency, skills, out-of-football entertainment, and fan base is superb.
The debate now lies on, between Ronaldo and Messi who is the best?
This question is answered based on individual preference. As said earlier, a Ronaldo fan will say Ronaldo so will a fan of Messi choose him as the best.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is also known as CR7 is one great footballer who has been successful from his early ages.
He started his early football at Andorinha and furthered to play for Nacional.
He started his official football career with Sporting CP where he performed well to gain him a deal with Manchester United.
He won with the team the English Premier League, FA Cup, and the Champions League. His individual work collaborated with the team's performance won him his first Ballon D'or in 2008. He won several titles in the Premiership playing for United.
He joined the Spanish giant, Real Madrid in 2009 where he won most of his major leagues and personal achievements.
He has won 32 major trophies through his career, 5 Champions League, 1 UEFA European Championship, 7 League titles, and 1 UEFA Nations League all-inclusive.
Ronaldo has won the prestigious Ballon d'Or five times, twice consecutively, and four times for European Golden Shoes.
He is the all-time top scorer for Real Madrid achieving this height in 9 years.
He is the all-time top scorer in the UEFA Champions League and holds the record of netting 17 goals in a single Champions League season.
Ronaldo joined the Italian side, Juventus in 2018 and has since been making history. He has with the team won two Italian Serie A titles, Supercopa Italiana and Coppa Italia within three seasons.
Ronaldo in international football is a legend for Portugal. He is the all-time top goalscorer for Portugal and won the Euro 2016 trophy. He is the captain of the Portugal national team.
He is also the top international goalscorer with over 100 goals, 30+ more than the closest to this length.
CR7 has got 777 goals to his name.
Though not much has been achieved by his team in the World Cup, his individual achievement is much enough to say he's good.
He has several records to his name and is an off-pitch philanthropist.
Indeed he is a great player.
Lionel Andrés Messi, called Leo Messi or Messi is an Argentine International and a forward for FC Barcelona. He is considered by many as the greatest player of all time. Messi started his professional football with FC Barcelona in the 2003-04 season from the Juveniles side.
He pushed through all the ranks to the senior team through skillful play and display of excellent and unprecedented performance.
He signed a his first contract with Barcelona in 2005.
Messi is the player with the most Ballon D'or, 6 titles, European Golden Shoes, 6 titles. He has won 34 major trophies in his career, 7 Copa del Rey, 4 Champions League, and 10 La Liga titles inclusive. He is both a goalscorer and a playmaker with a record of 474 goals, most hat-tricks (36), most goals in a single La Liga and European league season (50). He is the all-time top scorer for FC Barcelona and has many individual records to his name.
He is the captain for FC Barcelona and Argentina.
He is the all-time top goalscorer for Argentina in international football and won the FIFA World Youth Championship, 2005.
He has got several medals for his performances and led his team to the World Cup and Copa America finals. He has an all-time career goal of 750.
Messi just like Ronaldo is an off-pitch philanthropist.
The records and joy this duo has brought to football cannot be counted in a single day. They both have contributed immensely to the betterment of the game. If I am ever asked who is the all-time best football, I will never choose one over the other but say they are great players in their own world.
There is no all-time best player to me when asked to select between the two.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the greatest of all time.
Great work done.
Keep doing your best.
Thank you
I'm not a football fun but I really like CR7 for his hardwork to soar higher and I.like Messi for his talents and skills. For me they are all good
Messi all the way.