Soccer 360 Magazine

THE HISTORY BOYS

CRISTIANO RONALDO IS MENTIONED ON OVER 40 SEPARATE OCCASIONS IN THE LIST OF EUROPEAN CUP RECORDS’

“I can’t say that Lionel Messi is the best ever, but he is the best in his time,” said Ronaldinho. And he had a point. We’ll never really know if Diego Maradona would have waltzed past defenders such prime Sergio Ramos and Pepe so easily, or whether Messi’s supreme close control would be anywhere near as inch-perfect on the mudbath pitches of the 1980s and 1990s. For those of us not privileged enough to watch football’s greatest in their pomp have only elders’ testimony, grainy YouTube compilations, and the records they

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