Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi dominated football for two decades and in turn, had a stranglehold over the prestigious Ballon d’Or award in that time. The pair have won a combined 13 prizes ...

With multiple league titles with FC Barcelona and PSG respectively, Champions League trophies with the Catalan club, and a World Cup with Argentina, Messi has won eight Ballon d'Or awards.

“Of all the absentees on the list of Ballon d’Or winners, his is particularly painful. He is the greatest facilitator of the game in all of history.” see also Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo: The ...

The two sides are Spain's most successful teams in history and the rivalry was taken to a new level during the Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo era in the 2010s. The modern-day rivalry has been ...

Manchester United legend Paul Scholes previously named one player who could potentially win the Ballon d'Or ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Ronaldo and Messi will forever be ...

Back in 2011, Lionel Messi admitted he was "as surprised as anyone" when he won the Ballon d'Or ahead of his then-Barcelona teammates. The legendary Argentine led the Blaugrana to win La Liga and ...

Instead, Iniesta's Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi collected the second of his eight Ballon d'Or trophies that year. Messi was already considered the best in the world, then, by the time Gerrard ...

Pep Guardiola once named Xavi and Andres Iniesta as two players who never won the Ballon d'Or because of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The two Spanish midfielders are often considered among ...

Lionel Messi is the one true GOAT for Ezekiel and he also follows the Major League Soccer and the Saudi Pro League owing to him and Cristiano Ronaldo. When not writing, he spends his free time ...

River Plate Slams Door on Real Madrid Over the “New Messi” Everyone in Europe Is After The quality and talent of Franco Mastantuono do not go unnoticed, and his name is set to be one of the ...