lionel messi has the most goals messi or ronaldo.
lionel messi has the most goals messi or ronaldo.
who has the most goals messi or ronaldo?
lionel messi
at club level, messi and ronaldo have represented rivals fc barcelona and real madrid. the two players faced each other at least twice every season in the world's most popular regular-season club game, "el clásico" (among the most viewed annual sporting events), from ronaldo's arrival at real in 2009 until his transfer to italian club juventus f.c. in 2018. off the field, they are also the face of two rival sportswear manufacturers, messi of adidas and ronaldo of nike, which are also the kit suppliers of their national teams and the opposite for their clubs. the two highest paid players in football, messi and ronaldo are among the world's best paid sports' stars in combined income from salaries, bonuses and off-field earnings. in 2018, messi edged ronaldo on "forbes"' list of best-paid athletes, earning $111 million, with ronaldo next at $108 million. they have the two largest social media followings in the world among sportspeople with a combined 211 million facebook fans in 2019, ronaldo having 122 million and messi 89 million. as well as a combined 288 million followers on instagram as of 2019, ronaldo is the most followed individual on the entire service, with over 168 million followers whilst messi has 120 million followers.
ronaldo–messi rivalry
like maradona, messi won the fifa world youth championship, in 2005 with argentina, and won the golden ball. coincidentally, both players made their national debut against hungary, and messi also went on to inherit maradona's number 10 shirt and role as captain for argentina. messi would first wear the number 10 jersey and the captain's armband at an international tournament in the 2010 world cup, under maradona as coach. in 2014, messi captained argentina, leading them to their first world cup final since maradona had last brought them there as captain in 1990, where argentina were once again defeated 1–0 by germany. like maradona in 1986, messi was awarded the golden ball (albeit controversially, a decision which maradona even criticised), as the tournament's best player, scoring four goals and providing an assist. with this achievement, maradona and messi are the only players to win the golden ball at both the fifa u-20 world cup and fifa world cup, with maradona doing so in 1979 and 1986, while messi managed the same feat in 2005 and in 2014. like maradona in 1986, messi also made the most successful dribbling runs of any other player throughout the tournament, and knocked out belgium on the way to the final, drawing further comparisons between the two players. during the tournament, messi's passionate celebration after scoring the match winning goal against bosnia and herzegovina was compared to maradona's famous goal celebration against greece in 1994. furthermore, images surfaced which compared the heavy marking both players faced by the opposition defence at the world cup. like maradona again in 1986, messi was involved in the vast majority of argentina's goals.
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