Cristiano Ronaldo walked off the field with the gleeful chants of “Messi, Messi, Messi!” ringing in his ears from delighted Al-Hilal fans who had just watched their Saudi Pro League team beat the Portugal superstar’s Al-Nassr 3-0 in the Riyadh Derby on Friday. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner may have finished on the losing team … Read more
Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a class-action lawsuit seeking at least $1 billion in damages for his role in promoting cryptocurrency-related “non-fungible tokens,” or NFTs, issued by the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The lawsuit filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida on Monday alleges that Ronaldo’s promotion of … Read more
Kylian Mbappé has scored 300 career goals faster than Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Former France great Thierry Henry has nothing but admiration and Jean-Pierre Papin — the 1991 Ballon d’Or winner — believes the best is yet to come. Mbappé achieved the feat over the weekend in a 14-0 rout of Gibraltar at the … Read more
Alexi Lalas and David Mosse discuss if their rankings between Al Nassr’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi has changed, after the latter won the World Cup & found immediate success with Inter Miami in the MLS.
For the first time since 2007, neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo will be the highest-rated player in EA Sports’ soccer game. EA Sports dropped the top-24 ratings for the latest installment of its world-renowned soccer franchise EA FC 24 (formerly known as EA Sports FIFA) and Kevin De Bruyne, Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and … Read more
Scott McTominay moved ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane as the joint leading scorer in European Championship qualifying with Scotland on the brink of securing a place at next year’s tournament. McTominay continued his unlikely goal spree as the Scots extended their 100% record in Group A by beating Cyprus 3-0 Friday on a … Read more
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have “changed the game of football” according to former. He’s 100 percent right. No two men have meant more to the game of soccer than those two, and though they once engaged in a fierce rivalry, Ronaldo says that’s in the past. “I don’t see things like that, the rivalry … Read more
Seven-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi is back in contention for the prestigious award a year being omitted from the nomination list, which this time doesn’t include longtime rival Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi, who led Argentina to the World Cup title in December, was named on Wednesday to the 30-man list of nominees along with Erling … Read more
jkCristiano Ronaldo found the back of the net twice from the penalty spot in Al Nassr’s 4-0 win over Al Shabab in the Saudi Pro League on Tuesday. Ronaldo has scored five goals in the last two games after being held scoreless in the first two games of the season, and he’s now the Saudi … Read more