India, Feb. 3 -- Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have dominated world football for more than a decade now. Both players are currently in the swansong phase of their respective careers. Ronaldo represents Al Nassr at the Saudi Pro League and Messi plies his trade at the MLS with Inter Miami.

Both were players at their prime during their La Liga days, when they played for Real Madrid and Barcelona, taking on each other every season. Even the individual awards were a competition solely between the pair, and now football has transitioned from Ronaldo, Messi to the likes of Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane.

According to multiple reports in the past, Ronaldo is known to have always had the urge to have a better season than Messi, and would get...