The undisputed kings of world football are Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. For more than 15 years they dominated the best leagues in the world of beautiful sports and became idols.
Although they are no longer in leagues at the same level in which they shone from the beginning of their careers, the two superstars continue to add numbers to their records.
One of the achievements in which the two footballers come face to face is that of top scorer in football history. Each one has had memorable campaigns in terms of goals. Messi, On the one hand, he achieved the record for most goals in a calendar year with 91 scores in 2012.
Lionel Messi with the world cup.
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On the other hand, Cristiano Ronaldo is the top scorer in the history of the Champions League with 140 goals.
The numbers consecrate the two footballers as the best scorers in history. In this classification, The Portuguese surpasses the Argentine by 55 goals scored. However, the average goals per game would put it second in the classification.
Who is the historic scorer?
Ronaldo has, until now, 885 goals as a professional since his debut in 2002 with Sporting Lisbon. Messiwith the double scored against Nashville last Saturday in the MLS, adds 830 notes.
Cristiano Ronaldo with the Euro Cup
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It should be noted that the Argentine's career began two years later with the FC Barcelona and this would give him an advantage in the goal average with respect to 'CR7':Messi has one average of 0.78 goals per game compared to Luso's 0.73.
The third place in the classification, very far from the previous two, is held by Robert Lewandoski with 644 notes. follows him Luis Suarez with 563 and closes the top 5 Karim Benzema with 473 points
Robert Lewandowski
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Top 10 all-time top scorers
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 885
- Lionel Messi – 830
- Robert Lewandowski – 644
- Luis Suarez – 563
- Karim Benzema – 473
- Edinson Cavani – 448
- Neymar – 439
- Edin Dzeko – 423
- Hulk – 418
- Vagner Love – 407
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