Cristiano Ronaldo turned 39 years old on February 5, while Lionel Messi will be 37 years old in June. But the influence on all aspects of these two U.40 famous players still covers world football.
The desire to conquer the goal record is intact
Former football player Wayne Rooney recently shared very deeply about Ronaldo and Messi. “Nothing has changed. Two outstanding talents still have the desire to conquer the milestones of their careers. Perhaps, Messi has changed, he is less selfish, putting his passion and dedication to the matches. more and play team football. While Ronaldo is still the same, he doesn’t care about anything other than goals and conquering records,” Rooney praised.
“Messimania” still causes American football fever
Messimania is how Americans talk about Messi madness. The famous Argentine player and Inter Miami Club are preparing to play in the new MLS 2024 season with a match against Real Salt Lake on February 22. This is Messi’s second and complete season in the US, after the first half of the season from July 2023 caused a huge fever in the football world here.
“Messi’s admiration has increased exponentially, as evidenced by the fact that the audience’s demand for tickets has increased 150 times compared to the same time last year. Inter Miami is the team with the number 1 ticket booking on the online ticket sales site. route in the US, StubHub, with all 25 best-selling matches, including 10 home matches and 15 away matches,” the Miami Herald (USA) revealed. The best-selling ticket is to watch Inter Miami play LA Galaxy away on February 26 with prices ranging from 250 USD (more than 6 million VND) up to 7,820 USD (more than 190 million VND). In the opening match of the 2024 MLS season, Inter Miami hosted Real Salt Lake at DRV PNK’s home field, tickets were sold out 1 month ago. Ticket prices range from 105 USD (more than 2.5 million VND) to 2,500 USD (more than 60 million VND).
“The effect and influence of Messi not only helped Inter Miami Club’s ticket sales increase many times compared to before, but also helped all other teams in the MLS tournament also increase their ticket sales up to 7 times more than last year at the same time,” the Miami Herald shared.
According to AS newspaper (Spain): “The race for the influence of Ronaldo and Messi is still a huge factor that always attracts the attention of global football. Although they no longer play in Europe, they have Make room for junior stars Kylian Mbappe or Erling Haaland to take their place. However, up to now, in all aspects, Mbappe and Haaland have not been able to forget Ronaldo and Messi.”
Seeing how Ronaldo celebrated his latest goal was enough to agree with Rooney’s comments. “One more victory, one more goal. Keep going, Al Nassr,” Ronaldo wrote on his personal social network Instagram account. This is Ronaldo’s 875th official goal in his career to date. At the age of 39, the famous Portuguese player continues to increase his record number of goals every day, and is the top scorer in world football history. He is also leading the list of top scorers in the Saudi Pro League (Saudi Arabia) season 2023 – 2024 with 21 goals, far ahead of striker Mitrovic (of Al Hilal Club, scored 17 goals). Ronaldo also tops the list of goal assists.
Ronaldo’s presence at Al Nassr Club since the beginning of 2023 has so far created a very strong effect. A series of top stars from Europe have eagerly come to the Saudi Pro League to compete. Saudi Arabian football officials poured billions of dollars to upgrade the national championship, increase competition and create more attraction for fans.
