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#3 International goals, assists, hattricks and honors
Ronaldo arguably has the upper hand in this category, having led Portugal to their first European Championship title in 2016.
His longstanding rival Messi, on the other hand, has never won a single trophy in an Argentine shirt. The Portuguese ace also took his national team to a third-place finish in the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2017.
The closest that Messi has gotten to a successful campaign with his national team was in 2014 when he led Argentina to the finals of FIFA World Cup in Brazil where they lost to Germany in the finals.
In terms of goals, Ronaldo has scored 85 goals in 154 appearances for Portugal while Messi has hit the net 65 times in 128 appearances for his national team. Ronaldo has an international goal ratio of 0.55 and Messi stands at 0.51.
While Messi boasts a total of 40 international assists, Ronaldo only bagged 28 in his international career so far. The duo has scored the same amount of hattricks internationally (6).
