Messi or Ronaldo: The Final and The Ultimate Verdict is here

Not really! Just kidding.

Whatever it is, it can only be an opinion. That’s the whole point, it’s all about opinions. Will you have Messi in your all-time greatest team or Ronaldo, and why? Throw that question to a crowd and you will divide them. I am basically saying a cliché. We have never got a convincing answer and why do we need a convincing answer?

Get me a Real Madrid fan who will choose Messi over a Ronaldo. Get me a Barca fan who chooses Ronaldo, any day. And for a neutral, it’s about who you want in the pitch. Do you love a dashing hunk, running with the ball like a tiger, muscling defenders away, at times with his trickery too, and other times bending the ball like only he can. You love what he does off the pitch too J.

Or you would rather see a slightly more serious, small figure, a born genius, taking the ball away from defenders ( at times 4 or 5 of them) before they even realize it and looping the ball over the keeper. It’s just who you want to see on the field.

You might argue that let the performance, the records say it. Here you go:

All time Stats updated on 9^th May

Messi			Ronaldo
Appearance	Goals		Goals	Appearance
574	452	All time career – club and country	481	739
477	407	All time – club	429	620
313	283	League	306	419
97	77	Europe	77	120

Now what do you say? Even this will lead to different opinions.

We are just lucky to be present in the time when both these players are at their best and entertain us like no other. 

There would be one personal argument though (another opinion); who makes a team better? A team is not about Ronaldo or Messi alone. It’s about how these 2 players take their team and their team mates to new heights. A lot of questions were raised when Barcelona decided to play Messi, Neymar and Suarez together, but to every one’s surprise and pleasure, they have complimented each other amazingly.

How about the situation at Real Madrid at this moment? How is the BBC of Real Madrid – Bale, Benzema and Christiano gelling? Just an opinion and I shall continue next week.