Messi holds the all-time men's FIFA World Cup games record, while Ronaldo is the closest active player who can catch him, ...

The Barcelona star is head-to-head with his old foe and the new pretender, once again, for the right to be crowned best in the world Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil van Dijk are among the ...

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are used to dominating the Ballon d'Or ballot but have had their own say on the award in the past.

Lionel Messi has been crowned the top scorer of the 2025 Major League Soccer season—an achievement he had already ...

Alisha Lehmann answered the hardest question in football during a "either or" quiz with Gazzetta dello Sport: Cristiano ...

Messi claimed further awards in 2015 and 2019, continuing his reign as the game’s top playmaker even as new challengers emerged. Ronaldo won back-to-back honors in 2013 and 2014, then added more in ...

The only player to break up Messi and Ronaldo’s Pichichi dominance was Luis Suarez, who was Barcelona’s top scorer ahead of ...

Grimacing in pain from his bruised cheekbone, Cristiano Ronaldo steadied himself before scoring from the penalty spot for his first goal in Saudi Arabia against a Paris Saint-Germain team featuring ...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have shared the world's biggest individual honours between them for the best part of a decade-and-a-half. Now very much in the later stages of their awesome ...