Great article. It is also worth mentioning that Messi scored an astonishing 47% (48 goals out of 102) of his international goals in friendly matches (most of them against teams like Estonia, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, etc.), while Ronaldo scored only 16% (20 goals out of 122) of his international goals in friendly matches (weaker teams or not).
Thank you. Yeah, that's fair. And I guess it's partly because there are more qualifiers in Europe and therefore fewer friendlies. Lots of different criteria if we're comparing them, which wasn't really the plan...
Great article. It is also worth mentioning that Messi scored an astonishing 47% (48 goals out of 102) of his international goals in friendly matches (most of them against teams like Estonia, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, etc.), while Ronaldo scored only 16% (20 goals out of 122) of his international goals in friendly matches (weaker teams or not).
Thank you. Yeah, that's fair. And I guess it's partly because there are more qualifiers in Europe and therefore fewer friendlies. Lots of different criteria if we're comparing them, which wasn't really the plan...
Great piece
Thank you!