CRISTIANO RONALDO:
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, a Portuguese professional footballer, is born on February 5, 1985, and now plays as a striker for Manchester United in the Premier League. Ronaldo has won five Ballon d'Or trophies and four European Golden Shoes, the most by a European player.
He is largely recognized as the top player in the world and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
He has won 32 trophies during his career, including seven league titles, 5 UEFA Champions Leagues, 1 UEFA European Championship, and 1 UEFA Nations League.
Ronaldo owns the Champions League records for most appearances (181), goals (140), and assists (42) as well as the European Championship records for most goals (14), most international goals by a male player (115), and most international appearances by a European male player (184).
He is one of just a handful of players in the world to have appeared in over 1,100 professional games and to have scored over 800 official senior career goals for club and country.
Ronaldo, a Madeira native, started his professional club career with Sporting CP before joining England's side Manchester United at the age of 18 in 2003 and won the FA Cup in his first-ever season.
Forbes ranked Ronaldo the world's highest-paid athlete in 2016 and 2017, while ESPN rated him the world's most recognized athlete from 2016 to 2019. He is one of the world's most marketable and well-known athletes. In 2014, he was included in Time's list of the world's 100 most influential people. He is only the third athlete in history to make a billion dollars in his career, and he is the first footballer to accomplish it.
LIONEL MESSI:
Lionel Andrés Messi, usually known asLeo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who captains the Argentina national team and plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
Messi has a total of seven Ballon d'Or awards, six European Golden Shoes, and has been selected for the 2020Ballon d'Or Dream Team. He is largely acknowledged as the finest player in the world and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
He spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, winning a club-record 35 trophies, including 10 La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey crowns, and four UEFA Champions Leaguesuntil leaving in 2021.
Messi is a prolific striker and creative playmaker who owns the records for most goals in La Liga (474), a La Liga andEuropean league season (50), most hat-tricks (36) and the UEFA Champions League (8), and most assists (192) in La Liga, a La Liga season (21) and the Copa América (17).
He's also the South American guy with the most international goals (80). In his professional career, Messi has scored over 750 goals for club and country, making him the all-time highest goal scorer for a single club.
Messi was born and reared in central Argentina before moving to Spain at the age of 13 to join Barcelona, where he made his competitive debut in October 2004 at the age of 17.
