Messi competes strongly for the first man to score goals! He debuted two years after Ronaldo and only trailed by 45 goals!

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On January 10, the famous statistical agency IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics) announced the list of world football top scorers in the new century so far, led by Messi and C Ronaldo, and they are the only ones. At the same time, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo's goals are also in the top four in history, and they are all the first people in the history of scoring competitiveness. At present, C Ronaldo is at the top of the list, and Messi debuted two years late, but only 45 goals behind, which can completely replace C Ronaldo when he retires as the first person to score goals. Other competitors, such as Bikan, Pele and Romario, have long since retired.

Cristiano Ronaldo's total of 803 goals as of Jan. 10 is the only player in history to have scored more than 800 goals. Cristiano Ronaldo is very good at scoring goals, and he is also particularly obsessed with scoring goals, and at the same time, he has improved his historical status by scoring goals. Last year, the Dubai Global Football Awards also specially customized a so-called "first scorer in history" for C Ronaldo, but it caused great controversy.

Because although Ronaldo is ahead of all his peers, Messi still has a chance to replace him. And the young Mbappe and Haaland can also challenge this position in the future, but the Dubai Awards directly uses the "first scorer in history" to tout Ronaldo, which is obviously inappropriate. Few institutions will directly use "history" to award awards, because history has no end, at most it is based on "century", because there is a beginning and an end, and the material is limited.

Messi is second in the new century with 758 goals. Apparently, Messi is the biggest favorite of the first person in the history of scoring goals, and he debuted two years late in Ronaldo, and the peak period is even longer. With only 45 goals behind at the moment, it looks like a lot, and of course it does for the other strikers. But not for Messi, who has scored at least 40 goals in 12 years of his career. That is to say, even if C Ronaldo is over 37 years old, he can still maintain the current goal efficiency, as long as he retires earlier than Messi, then Messi can replace C Ronaldo with one or two seasons, the same number of career seasons as C Ronaldo, and become the first person in the history of scoring goals.

Judging by the fact that Messi has scored at least 40 goals a year in the past few years, his La Liga Golden Boot and Copa America Golden Boot last year, and his status of surpassing Pele three times in a year, Messi is likely to increase his career total to 800 this year! Messi's advantage is that he is still only 34 years old, so his peak period will be longer than C Ronaldo. Cristiano Ronaldo is getting worse and worse with Manchester United and he may be running again this summer. If there is no big club, it may go to the United States major leagues or Portugal sports pension. However, one of the advantages of this for Cristiano Ronaldo is that he can score goals and fight against Messi's strong competition.

There are also three top five goalscorers in the new century: Ibrahimovic with 556 goals, Levan with 542 goals and Suarez with 512 goals. Levan is very likely to hit the top three, but he is 33 years old and it is impossible to catch up with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Maldivian star Ashfaq finished sixth with 472 goals; retired Aguero scored 426 goals, seventh; and 425 goals, Cavani, ranked eighth, and he can still continue to improve his goals. The ninth was 409 goals for Barça star Eto'o, and the tenth was for the retired Durić from Singapore in Asia, with 408 goals. Both Neymar and Benzema scored 401 goals and are likely to be in the top ten before retiring. Haaland and Mbappe are certainly on the list in the future.