The only player to have won the UEFA Champions League with three different teams – Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan – Clarence Seedorf considers himself to have a special bond with Europe's premier club competition.
Lionel Messi | Barcelona/Argentina
Lionel Messi takes top spot - and deservedly so - following yet another exceptional calendar year. The Barcelona legend is in with a chance of winning the 2019 Ballon d'Or. Cristiano Ronaldo finishes in second place, followed by Kylian Mbappe and Mohamed Salah.Our weekly rankings have all the answers
- #5 Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Last week: 5.
- #4 Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) | Last week: 3.
- #3 Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain) | Last week: 9.
- #2 Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) | Last week: 1.
- #1 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) | Last week: 2.
Ronaldo, more than Messi, is the ideal model of the next generation of players. Messi has won more titles since he plays for a better team, not because he is a better player than Ronaldo. Throughout his entire career, Messi played for arguably the best side to ever play the game.
Leo Messi is the greatest dribbler of all time.
Players such as Pele, Garrincha, Maradona, Ronaldo, Best and Ronaldinho are also amazing dribblers.Messi and Neymar have a very similar skill set, but Messi is just better at everything that Neymar does good. For example even though Neymar is a very good free kick taker Messi is just better. I also believe that since Neymar plays in Ligue 1 he is not really going up against the highest level of competition.
Cristiano started playing for Sporting CB at the age of 17 so is Lionel Messi for Barcelona. But as you know Cristiano is 2 years older than Messi and that makes him to start playing for 1st league earlier than Messi which is in 2002.
Updated after matches played on 15 March 2020
| Rank | Club / Country | Points |
|---|
| 1 | Liverpool FC England | 2023 |
| 2 | Bayern München Germany | 2006 |
| 3 | Manchester City England | 1951 |
| 4 | Barcelona Spain | 1939 |
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi score at an unprecedented rate in today's game, but there are those from history whose rate of scoring was even more impressive. The Guinness World Record for the most goals scored in a specified period is 1,281 by the Brazilian great Pele, born Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
Everyone has their own opinion, some say Lionel Messi is the best player in the world right now, while Cristiano Ronaldo continues to impress at 33 and his accolades make him a serious choice for many fans.
Messi is a better team player
Not only does he have more assists and key passes than Ronaldo, he is always using his phenomenal vision to keep his teammates involved. He has great tactical intelligence, finding free spaces to move into, receiving the ball and then laying it off to a team-mate, to build attacks.The main reason why many compare him to Ronaldo is because the Portuguese continues to score lots of goals each season. Messi, on the other hand, is not just about goals – he scores, controls games, drops deep to dictate play and assists his team-mates to score as well. It doesn't come any better than this.
The strike puts Messi in an elite group of players to have scored 50 career free kicks, including David Beckham, Ronaldinho, and Cristiano Ronaldo.
