Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two Goats, and the Era That Remade the World's Game


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Contributor(s): Clegg, Jonathan (Author) , Robinson, Joshua (Author)
ISBN: 0063157187    EAN: 9780063157187
Publisher: Mariner Books  
Binding: Paperback
Street Date: November 14, 2023
Pub Date: November 14, 2023
Physical Info: 0.8" H x 8.0" L x 5.2" W
Weight: 0.5 lbs
Pages: 320 pages
Essential World Cup Reading | Featured in The New York Times’ “What to Read During the World Cup”

Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of the intertwined sagas and legacies of two of the greatest soccer players of all time—Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo—examining how their rivalry has grown from a personal competition to a multi-billion-dollar industry, paralleling the stunning rise, overwhelming excesses, and uncertain future of modern international soccer.

For over fifteen years, almost any conversation about international soccer has always come back to two players—Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo—undoubtedly the greatest of their generation but with styles, attitudes, and fanbases that couldn’t be more different. For millions of people around the world “Messi or Ronaldo?” isn’t simply a barroom argument, or an affirmation of fandom, so much as a statement of philosophy, of values, of what global soccer is today and of what it will be tomorrow.

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