Cristiano Ronaldo first went, and seven hours later, Lionel Messi chased. In addition to seven thousand miles, an ocean, a continent and a sea, on a wild Wednesday of football, the two greatest players in the world’s most popular sports stroke history in the Champions League semi -finals. They emerged from tunnels, and stepped on stage to strengthen their abundance.
It was, of course, the type of stage on which he wore the world and was a duality for the throne of football. For a decade and a half, he burnt the European Champions League with 141 and 129 goals respectively, respectively, respectively, Two best tallThey picked up OrejonaTrophy, a combined nine times. He spent the days like growing in football learning on Wednesday, chasing him by many mortal people of miles.
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But this Wednesday, in Saudi Arabia and South Florida, at the age of 40 and 37, Ronaldo and Messi moved out of the Asian and North American Champions League counterparts.
And in the middle, while Ronaldo Fumhed and Messi waited, their successor has made another statement so far.
In the Champions League that Ronaldo and Messi at the age of 17, Lamine Yamal bants Inter Milan and tilted millions of minds worldwide.
In his 100th game for Barcelona, he scored his 22nd goal to go with 33 assistance, and Messi Comparison accelerated the overdrive.
17 -year -old Lamin Yamal celebrated after scoring against Inter Milan in a success performance. (Photo through Getty Image by Jose Bretton/Pix Action/Narfot)
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At Yamal’s age, Messi scored only once for Barcelona; Ronaldo scored five times for Sporting Club Day Portugal.
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Messi did not make her 100th appearance until the age of 20, and yet, with a multi-year gain, her 54 goal contribution has now been crossed by the child who looks fast as the successor of her throne.
Yamal said in a press conference on Tuesday, “I don’t want to compare myself with anyone, and even less with Messi.” But 24 hours later, they made the comparison unavoidable. He left the dust and the defenders on the grass. He scored a great goal.
He is doing things that his age has never done. He is the best 17 year old in the modern history of the game. he is, Now!In 2025 – a dragon ball -inspired dental braces with glow and golden hair – perhaps the best player in football. He regularly realizes that Messi did all those years ago, that we, those who are lucky to see their rise, are seeing something that we will remember to the rest of our lives.
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And on Wednesday, more than ever, that Some? The guard felt like changing.
Both Ronaldo and Messi are still kicking. Ronaldo, now in Al Nasar, is the top scorer of the Saudi Pro League. Messi, now in Inter Miami, is MLS MVP. They remain the two most popular athletes on the planet.
But on Wednesday, they stumbled.
Kawasaki Frontley, a Middle-Table Club from Japan, ACL shocked Al Nasar in the semi-finals, and Ronaldo left on the verge of tearsBoring your eyes boring in the ground, shrinking your shoulders, shaking your head, searching.
Seven hours later, Vancouver Whitcaps crossed Inter Miami in the second phase of his ConcacAF Champions Cup semi -finals. Messi, in a total necklace of 5–1, hit a half-wolf and floated in a tam free kick. He passes wrongly. He could not get the balls out from under his feet. For the fourth straight game against MLS protest, he neither gave a target nor a support.
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Recently in the last summer, he was still a top player in world football. Ronaldo, who is at the age of two and a half, had declined more rapidly, but both retained the Peerlace Dolabala, as no one increased to claim his throne. Kylian Mbappé flirted with it, but flopped into the Champions League, and now has certainly made Real Madrid worse. Last year’s Ballon D’Or Field was one of the weakest ever. Post-Ronaldo-Messi generation, if anything, has proved how notable those two megastars were.
In the last few months, however, the story has moved. A year ago, there was an understanding that Ronaldo and Messi can never equalize; Now, there is a teenager who can actually cross them. He has to go a long way to go to him, and there are lots of injuries to escape, and to make a lot of developmental jump; But he is ridiculous in one word.
And on Wednesday, as Ronaldo and Messi dropped out of the spotlight, in a 10 -hour period, both symbolic and important, Yamal seized one, someday, could be equally bright and bigger.