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Messi vs Ronaldo – Money as a Measuring Stick for Greatness
The best footballer in the world (Lionel Messi) should be also the one making more money than anyone else, right? Cristiano Ronaldo is the best paid soccer star thanks to his new deal, which as always provides another source for comparison between the two greatest of their generation.
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Messi vs Ronaldo – A Rivalry That Doesn’t Actually Exist
How much do Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo think about each other? Probably not as much as we’d like them to. Just as Real Madrid and Barcelona are huge rivals, it’s quite common to think that there’s some huge individual rivalry between the two best players in the world as well. But every time the subject comes up with one of them, the truth seems a little bit different.
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Messi vs Ronaldo – No Question About the Number One Player Anymore
After four years of a constant debate surrounding the identity of the best player in the world, it doesn’t seem like a question anymore. Cristiano Ronaldo is at a stage of his career where there is no more improvement – only trying to hold on to the top level for as long as possible. Lionel Messi? He’s won, hands down, the most heated debate in the sport in recent years, even even if his club isn’t as invincible as it used to be.
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Lionel Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo – The Not So Quiet Summer
The 2013 summer should have been a chance for players like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to relax. Not just their bodies rest from a season of football without any international competitions to attend, but with Real Madrid being in a very confusing state at the moment, while the Barcelona star has had his problems with the IRS in Spain, it hasn’t been too tranquil for the two.
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Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo Ends Another Season With Nothing
Some players, without too many opportunities to win titles through their careers, cherish their opportunities when a national cup competition is the one to bring them glory. For clubs like Real Madrid, and superstars like Cristiano Ronaldo, falling back on those kind of trophies after missing out yet again on the league championship and the Champions League isn’t something that gives him too much joy.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Will Never be as Loved as Lionel Messi
Every time Real Madrid visit Bilbao to play against Athletic, Cristiano Ronaldo gets the awkward, abusive treatment from fans and players. No matter who good he’ll be and how much there will be an attempt to change his image, which has gone a long way from his early days in Spain, it’ll never be on par with the way Lionel Messi is treated.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Scores Just as Much as Lionel Messi
While last season may have been a more evident team effort from Real Madrid, this season it’s all about the scoring ability of Cristiano Ronaldo, showing his usual clinical finishing in Istanbul to send his team through into the Champions League semifinals for a third consecutive season, while proving a point about his goal scoring rivalry with Lionel Messi, showing he can be just as efficient.
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Real Madrid vs Barcelona – New Clasico Rulers
The current era in the Clasico rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid is pretty much defined by the moment Pep Guardiola became the head coach of Barcelona, changing the career trajectory of Lionel Messi. A season later Cristiano Ronaldo arrived, and Jose Mourinho a year after that. What was a Barca-dominated match up early on has taken a different direction in recent years.
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Is Cristiano Ronaldo Nicer Than Lionel Messi?
The truth needs time to be revealed, and while Lionel Messi is usually regarded as the more humble, quieter and nicer in the battle of superstars he has with Cristiano Ronaldo, proof of the opposite being the truth keeps coming out in small doses, the latest being some things a retired La Liga referee, Eduardo Iturralde González, said about the two.
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Messi vs Ronaldo – Not Better, Simply Different?
There doesn’t always have to be a winner. Not everything is American Sports, were draws and trying to reach for something that isn’t first place or victory just doesn’t exist. Lionel Messi might be better than Cristiano Ronaldo, but the better explanation in the eternal struggle and debate is that they’re just different.