Messi vs Ronaldo: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are set to face off, potentially for the final time in their careers, as Inter Miami finally confirmed on Monday, December 11, that they will take part in the Riyadh Season Cup in 2024. The tournament was officially announced by Saudi officials on November 21, but it was unclear if Inter Miami would take part at that time.
However, with recent developments, football fans will get to witness two of the greatest footballers of all time lock horns on February 1, 2024, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. The tournament is a three-team round-robin event where Messi’s Inter Miami will be facing Al Hilal on January 29, 2024, and later facing Ronaldo’s Al Nassr.
This is a part of Inter Miami’s international tour, which also included stops in El Salvador and Hong Kong. The team will face the El Salvador national team on January 19, 2024, and will face a team composed of Hong Kong’s top players in February 2024.
The Messi-Ronaldo rivalry goes back to 2010, when Cristiano Ronaldo signed for Real Madrid and Lionel Messi was making his name under manager Pep Guardiola at Barcelona FC.
For almost a decade, these two modern legends of the game fired up football pitches whenever they faced each other in the El Classico and have been two of the most prolific ballers for the past 15 years.
Ronaldo and Messi are the highest goal scorers for Real Madrid and Barcelona, respectively, with Ronaldo scoring 451 goals in 438 appearances and Messi scoring 672 goals in 778 appearances.
Both faced each other more than 30 times in matches for both club and country and share a total of 13 Ballon d’Ors among each other, with Messi leading with eight of them.
Ronaldo signed for Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr in December 2022 from Manchester United, and Messi signed for MLS club Inter Miami this year from Paris Saint-Germain, as they are going into the fag end of their careers.
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