It seems that the popularity of Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo in Spain is still great, despite his departure from Real Madrid and his move to Juventus, where he beat his Argentine rival, Lionel Messi, the Barcelona star and the first lega in his home.
Ronaldo defeated Messi in the final stage of a referendum held by the Spanish newspaper "Marca" to choose the best football player in history, where the referendum was held in its final stages by way of knockout as cup competitions, and the two stars reached the final confrontation after defeating the Brazilian phenomenon Ronaldo and Argentine legend Diego Maradona.
Ronaldo beat Messi by 54% of the total number of votes that participated in the vote to separate the two stars and determine the best in the history of the game, and the number of participants in the vote exceeded 450 thousand participants.
In the competition for the third and fourth places, the phenomenon Ronaldo occupied the third position after obtaining 51% of the votes in the referendum after he outperformed the legend Mardona.