Messi is much more a team player than Cristiano is,' the Dutchman said in 2015. 'He scores but also produces many assists. For me as a player, Messi is better. There is a big difference in being just a great goalscorer and being the best player.

Brazil vs Argentina timeline: How one of world football's fiercest rivalries descended into chaos with fighting between fans and police Read the tags and figure it out you lazy hoes! (Said in a British accent) Language: English Words: 8 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 5 Kudos: 44 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 2,045 REVEALED: Pep Guardiola crowned football's most influential manager above Jurgen Klopp ahead of Man City's match against LiverpoolIt tells me that the offer is staggering. Maybe the club that he wanted in Europe didn't come in for him and this was his option to go for. An element of sadness, in terms of we've probably seen the last of Ronaldo playing at the top level. Wolves boss Gary O'Neil says referee Michael Salisbury admitted he 'got it wrong' with Fulham's first... After Portugal's unsuccessful performance at Euro 2008, Luiz Felipe Scolari was replaced as coach by Carlos Queiroz, formerly the assistant manager at United. [381] Queiroz made Ronaldo the squad's permanent captain in July 2008. [382] Ronaldo failed to score a single goal in the qualification for the 2010 World Cup, [362] as Portugal narrowly avoided a premature elimination from the tournament with a play-off victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina. [383] In the group stage of the World Cup, he was named man of the match in all three matches, against Ivory Coast, North Korea and Brazil. [384] [385] [386] His only goal of the tournament came in their 7–0 rout of North Korea, which marked his first international goal in 16 months. [387] Portugal's World Cup ended with a 1–0 loss against eventual champions Spain in the round of 16. [388]

Two appearances and three goals in the 2002 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, two appearances in the 2002 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards debate their England starting XI for Euro 2024 with the trio disagreeing on THREE positions What the title says . Language: English Words: 21,720 Chapters: 9/9 Comments: 10 Kudos: 46 Bookmarks: 5 Hits: 2,730 He's a great player but he's not a leader. It's useless trying to make a leader out of a man who goes to the toilet 20 times before a game,' Maradona added, in reference to his nerves. Excluding shootouts, Ronaldo has scored an impressive 158 penalties (with 29 misses) over his whole career, whereas Messi has scored 108 penalties (with 31 misses).OLIVER HOLT: Ill, thin and broken, ex-England footballer Kieron Dyer, 44, was dying with a rare liver disease just 11 weeks ago. Now, he speaks for the first time after a 'miracle' transplant gave him a second shot at life Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM ( Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾiʃˈtjɐnu ʁɔˈnaldu]; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr and the Portugal national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has won five Ballon d'Or awards, [note 3] a record three UEFA Best Player in Europe, and four European Golden Shoes, the most by a European player. He has won 34 trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, the UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. Ronaldo holds the records for most appearances (183), goals (140) and assists (42) in the Champions League, goals in the European Championship (14), international goals (128) and international appearances (205). He is one of the few players to have made over 1,200 professional career appearances —the most by an outfield player— and has scored over 850 official senior career goals for club and country, making him the top goalscorer of all time.

Concurrently with his individual achievements, Ronaldo enjoyed his greatest team success in Spain to date, as he helped Madrid win La Décima, their tenth European Cup. His goal in a 3–0 home win over Dortmund (his 100th Champions League match) took his total for the season to 14 goals, equalling the record Messi had set two years before. [177] After hitting a brace in a 4–0 defeat of Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena, [178] he scored from the penalty spot in the 120th minute of the 4–1 final win over Atlético, becoming the first player to score in two European Cup finals for two different winning teams. [179] His overall performance in the final was subdued as a result of patellar tendinitis and related hamstring problems, which had plagued him in the last months of the campaign. Ronaldo played the final against medical advice, later commenting: "In your life you do not win without sacrifices and you must take risks". [180] As the competition's top goalscorer for the third time, with a record 17 goals, [181] he was named the UEFA Best Player in Europe. [182]

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