MANY CONSIDER MESSI AS BEST TO CHRISTIAN RONALDO

 

Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi, regarded by many as the best player of all time, has received six Ballon d'Or awards, the most for any football player, as well as the 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year and 2019 The Best FIFA Men's Player. Messi holds the record for most goals in La Liga (474), the Supercopa de España (14), the UEFA Super Cup (3) and is the player with the most official recorded assists in football history (315). He has scored 778 goals for club and country throughout his professional career and is also the first player in history to win five and six European Golden Shoes.

Over the course of his career, Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has received five Ballon d'Or/FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, the most for a European player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo holds the record for most goals and assists in the UEFA Champions League (136 and 42 respectively), and the record for most goals in the UEFA European Championship (14), its qualification stage (31), and the FIFA Club World Cup (7), as well as most goals scored in a UEFA Champions League season (17), most international goals (115), and most appearances in a European national team (180). He has scored a record 794 senior career goals for club and country. Moreover, he is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,100 professional career appearances.