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Lionel Messi Eclipses Cristiano Ronaldo In Individual Awards After Ballon D'Or Win

Lionel Messi Eclipses Cristiano Ronaldo In Individual Awards After Ballon D'Or Win

Lionel Messi captured his sixth Ballon D'Or trophy last night, beating out Virgil Van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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By Mike Parrott

Lionel Messi has finally eclipsed Cristiano Ronaldo in individual awards last night after winning his sixth Ballon D'Or beating out Virgil Van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Messi won his sixth Ballon D'Or last night with Van Dijk second and Ronaldo third. The triumph for Messi has finally put him top of Ballon D'Or winners after being tied with Ronaldo on five for the past two years.

Messi's trophy haul is now arguably better than Ronaldo's at least on an individual level.

With Messi now eclipsing him in Ballon D'Ors He also has more Golden Boots and European Golden Shoes than the Portuguese Winger.

However, Ronaldo probably still has a better team-based trophy haul.

With Ronaldo still owning two more Champions League titles than Messi and actually being tied with Bareclona as a club for Champions League wins, as well as winning the League in three different Countries.

Regardless, we have been living in now over a Decade of the two Greatest players of all time and their absolutely insane but amazing achievements which will probably never be seen again in our lifetime.

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