The ageless contention between the couple has been a flat out treat for football fans from one side of the planet to the other.
Ronaldo is presently 36yrs of age, and Lionel Messi is 2yrs younger than Ronaldo. Yet, the two players have made their progessions by resisting assumptions.
Notwithstanding having gone past their pinnacles, they keep on breaking records and keep up their place among the absolute best in world football.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are two of the best footballers ever and the sheer numbers of records the pair have broken is a demonstration of their practically superhuman capacities.
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Here are 5 Lionel Messi records Cristiano Ronaldo might never break:
5. Messi With The Most European Golden Shoe Awards (6)
The European Golden Shoe is given to the player who scores the most number of goals in a solitary season in all alliances across the landmass.
At the point when Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were at the pinnacle of their forces and scoring of goals for fun only, they would exchange blows of race for the Golden Shoe.
Cristiano Ronaldo initially won the honor with Manchester United in the 2007-08 season, and that was his 1st time. He has won it in multiple times from that point forward, 2010-11, 2013-14 and 2014-15.
At that point, Ronaldo had the lead over Lionel Messi. The Argentine had just three award attached him, when the Portuguese won his last Golden Shoe Award.
Moreover, Messi won the honor in three sequential seasons from 2016-17 to 2018-19. He has now won six European Golden Shoe Awards. Despite the fact that Ronaldo keeps on being a productive goalscorer, it doesn't seem as though he will at any point become the top scorer in Europe once more.
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4. Messi with the Most back to back Ballon d'Or wins (4)
From 2008 to 2019, just Luka Modric had the option to break Lionel Messi's and Cristiano Ronaldo's duopoly over the Ballon d'Or.
After Cristiano Ronaldo had won the most renowned individual prize in football twice in sequential years, Lionel Messi would proceed to win it multiple times in progression from 2009 to 2012.
It's a record which is very probably not going to be broken by Ronaldo. He'll need to begin without any preparation as his last Ballon d'Or win came in 2017. At his age, winning four continuously Ballons d'Or is astonishing.
3. Most number of goals for a solitary club (672)
Football has changed a great deal and the possibility of a 'one-club player' is almost a non existent at the present time. But Lionel Messi has played his whole profession at Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo has played for Sporting Lisbon, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus.
Messi has scored an astounding 672 goals for Barcelona in his club profession. He broke Pele's record of 643 goals, which he scored for Santos, in December that year.
Cristiano Ronaldo on the scene has scored a total number of 450 goals in 438 games for Real Madrid. Which is the highest of his career and occupy the 10th position on the rundown of players with generally number of goals for a solitary club.
As he isn't playing for Real Madrid any longer. Along these lines, it is basically incomprehensible for Ronaldo to break this record of Lionel Messi's.
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2. Most number of goals in a calender year (91)
There was a point in time when Lionel Messi made football look excessively simple. He used to flick past defenders and beat the goalkeeper as expected. The Argentine was at the pinnacle of his forces in 2012. It is proclaimed as the best year of Messi's professional career.
Messi, who won his fourth Ballon d'Or in 2012, scored a mind boggling 91 goals in that calender year. He broke Gerd Muller's record of 85 goals in a solitary year. It's a record that looks set to stay for a very long time to come.
Ronaldo last scored in excess of 50 goals in a calender year in 2017 and his numbers have declined since. Given that he is moving toward his final year, it appears to be impossible that he will have as great a year as Messi had route back in 2012.
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1. Most number of Ballon d'Or wins (6)
Lionel Messi started to lead the pack in the Ballon d'Or race when he won it for the 6th time in 2019. Cristiano Ronaldo has won the honor multiple times.
In 2021, it is difficult to anticipate who will be crowned winner, With the Euros and the Copa America set to happen in June, there is as yet an opportunity that Messi and Ronaldo will have a special interest.
Ronaldo is over the hill and it is impossible that he will win two more Ballons' d'Or. Juventus are likewise set to go through a reconstruct of sorts. It will require a phenomenal exertion from them to win some significant prizes in the impending seasons to push Ronaldo towards Ballon d'Or magnificence once more.
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