By Gura Garcia
May 5, 2024, 17:01 PM EDT
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo continue to give something to talk about and demonstrate every time they should defending the colors of their respective teams currently (Inter Miami in Major League Soccer and Al Nassr of the Saudi Pro League), they are playing at a simply impressive level.
The Argentine, for his part, put on a worthy and epic show in what was a 6-2 victory. of the pink ‘Las Garzas’ team against New York Red Bull in the most recent matchday of the MLS, in a duel where he scored a goal and distributed 5 assists; The goal scored by Messi continues to add up to all the goals he has historically scored as a professional and keeps him alive in the race against the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
According to information released by the MessiStats site, the Argentine has a total of 833 goals and 372 assists in 1,057 games played in his professional career, which are divided between Fútbol Club Barcelona (672 goals and 269 assists in 778 games), the Argentine national team (106 goals and 54 assists in 180 games), Paris Saint Germain (32 goals and 34 assists in 75 games) and Inter Miami (23 goals and 15 assists in 24 games).
Cristiano at almost 40 years old is simply impressive
What about Cristiano Ronaldo is to leave any foot ball fan around the world with their mouths open; He has 890 goals, 250 assists in 1220 games played and 61 goals so far since he debuted in Saudi Arabia football; ‘CR7’ also had a total of 450 goals with Real Madrid, 145 with Manchester United, 101 with Juventus, 5 with Sporting Lisbon, and 128 defending the colors of the Portuguese national team.
How many goals are they apart from each other?
The current difference between the Rosario player from Inter Miami and the Portuguese player from Al Nassr is 57 celebrations and the hand-to-hand battle between the two for the top scorer of all time is still more alive than ever.
The top historical scorer at the national team level
The number of more goals also affects the level of the national teams and there to this day Today it is Cristiano Ronaldo who leads the table with 128 goals in his favor in 206 games played, while Messi scores a total of 106 goals in 180 games, with the difference being 22 scores between the two.
Upcoming commitments of both
Before the start of the Copa América and the Euro Cup that will have them as the main protagonists of both competitions and their national squads, the fight for goals will have different stops according to the itinerary of both forwards: Inter Miami will face Montreal Impact (11-5), Orlando City (15-5), DC United ( 18-5), Vancouver Whitecaps (25-5), Atlanta United (29-5) and St. Louis City (1-6).
On June 9, Messi will play the first preparatory friendly against Ecuador and then, on the 13th, they will have to face Guatemala, both duels in the United States. The official route in the continental competition will be on Thursday, June 20 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta against Canada in Group A. They will later face Chile (Tuesday, June 25) and Peru (Saturday, June 29).
CR7’s journey will begin against Al Akhdoud (9/5), Al Hilal (17/5), Al Riyadh (23/5) and Al Ittihad (27/5), This is prior to the friendly duels that he will play with his Portuguese team against Finland (4/6), Croatia (8/6) and Ireland (11/6) that will serve as preparation for the start of the Euro Cup: they will debut in the Group F on June 18 against the Czech Republic at the Leipzig Stadium in Germany. Their agenda will continue against Türkiye (6/22) and Georgia (6/26).
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