Van Dijk's Insider Perspective Messi or Ronaldo?

Barring Van Dijk's UEFA Player of the Year, Messi has won two of the topmost individual honour in world football in 2019. "Unfortunately there ... Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk once chose Argentine superstar Lionel Messi over Portuguese icon Cristiano Ronaldo in the football GOAT ... The Liverpool defender, 28, beat Barcelona icon Lionel Messi and Juventus superstar Cristiano Ronaldo to the award. Advertisement. Sign up for ... Seventeen goals in 11 Champions League games in the 2013/14 season as Real Madrid win the Champions League and Cristiano Ronaldo is crowned UEFA Men's Player ... "On the right I'll put Lionel Messi. Arguably one of the best players of all time, I don't need to say too much to be fair," said van Dijk. Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil Van Dijk have been shortlisted for the UEFA Player of the Year award, the sport's European governing body said on ... Van Dijk still finished ahead of five-time winner Ronaldo, with his Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane fourth. "It was an amazing year, but there's ... Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil van Dijk make up the shortlist for the Best Men's Player award at the Best Fifa Football Awards on Monday - but who ... Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has praised Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo following Monday night's Ballon d'Or ceremony in Paris. Van Dijk's role in Liverpool's Champions League triumph helped him secure second place in the Ballon d'Or voting that year, behind Messi.