Messi if the World Cup championship, and C Ronaldo directly open the gap, that and Pele 50-50, considering the era should really be Messi first. The problem is that Messi is unlikely to lead Argentina to a World Cup title.
Ronaldo and Messi who won the World Cup who is the history of the first goal. After all, the national teams of these two people are among the top ten teams in the world. As the first player in history, even the team can’t win the World Cup with this configuration of match results. I think the old timers in history still refuse to accept. World Cup certification is not required, but the World Cup is required for the first World Cup in history.
When it comes to individual skills, Messi’s ability has been recognized as the first in history, and like Jordan, he needs the certification of other players of his generation to become a god.
90% of the top players and the best coaches in the game today have said that Messi is the best in history (Gua, Wen, Scum) and even two of Ronaldo’s own coaches (Zidane, Mourinho) have said that Messi is better than Ronaldo.
Now you can say that Ronaldo is the first man in Portuguese football, but he can’t be the first man in football because of the way of playing, Ronaldo template is Gerd Muller, Muller all slam is not the first man, Ronaldo is not possible.
Messi’s basic status now is the third in history, Pele Maradona and Messi, say no more meaning, the status in football only depends on the game skills and achievements, Messi is only short of the World Cup championship, ranked third is normal, to get the World Cup is a slam, tied with Pele first.
Football I think if you play better than anyone else in your generation, you’re the king of the game. After all, there are so many teams in football, the difference between the strengths of different teams is also larger, and the number of team members in football, teammates and coaches are very influential. So, soccer doesn’t have to be a champion to win.
Pele Maradona didn’t win the Champions League, but they both proved through the World Cup that no one of their generation was as good as them. The barrier to Messi becoming a king is not the World Cup, it is Cristiano Ronaldo, it is similar to Zidane Ronaldo, Cruyff Beckenbauer, you don’t play for everyone in your generation, so you are not a king.
Pele’s best contemporary, Garrincha, was a teammate, and the general assumption was that Nebelli was the boss so Pele was the king. Maradona’s contemporaries and the German troika, the Dutch three Musketeers and so on, although they are also stars, but in the contemporary league or World Cup, the level of display is a grade worse than Maradona, so Maradona does not have the Champions League, only the league and World Cup can also be the king of the ball.
And Maradona’s main eligible players were in the same league as him, making his league title even more meaningful. The problem for Messi is that his contemporary Cristiano Ronaldo is not inferior to him at all in terms of achievement and strength. To become the king of the game, Messi must defeat Cristiano Ronaldo completely in terms of achievement, strength and performance.