Zlatan Ibrahimovic once chose Lionel Messi over Cristiano Ronaldo in the GOAT debate. The mercurial Swede shared the pitch 42 times with La Pulga, all during their time together at Barcelona.

A recent AI analysis reportedly selected Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé as the current best soccer player, bypassing both Messi and Ronaldo in its assessment. The AI algorithm, whose specific source and ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has boldly claimed he is "the most complete player to have existed," acknowledging fans who prefer Lionel Messi ... [Is Major League Soccer worse?] Obviously.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two of the biggest football superstars in the modern world. The duo have dominated the beautiful game, unlike anyone in history, since breaking into the ...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have both revealed the toughest opponents they have ever faced The two will always be regarded as two of the greatest footballers of all time, with a combined ...

Argentina and Inter Miami star Lionel Messi — who is nearly three years younger — can still catch Ronaldo for both records, if he plays on through to the 2026 World Cup and perhaps beyond.

Patrice Evra has suggested Lionel Messi had the World Cup "handed to him ... who spent three years at Old Trafford with Portuguese icon Cristiano Ronaldo, seems to have directly contradicted ...

The miss, saved by Denmark’s Kasper Schmeichel, led to Ronaldo surpassing Lionel Messi in a negative milestone. Portugal was forced to secure a positive result after a 1-0 defeat in the first leg and ...

Reports of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi playing together at this summer's FIFA Club World Cup are wide of the mark, according to reports this week. Football fans had the pleasure of watching ...

Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi was second with 1,205 votes (24.72 per cent) as Cristiano Ronaldo took out the top gong with 1,365 votes (27.99 per cent). However, there was plenty of controversy ...

Finding the next Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo is the dream. Yet given the sheer number of young footballers across the world, it is virtually impossible for clubs to achieve this alone.

Kane, 31, said: “It’s like when Ronaldo and Messi were throwing these crazy numbers out there. “The next season, they’d score 40 goals instead of 50 and it was like they were having a bad ...