Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are playing on until their late 30s because they 'can't stand each other', Jamie Carragher （人命などを）奪う，主張するs - and 主張するs fans won't see another 競争 like it again

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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have continued to play on because of their 競争の激しい spirit which means they 'can't stand each other', （人命などを）奪う，主張するs Jamie Carragher.

Ronaldo netted a hat-trick for Al-Nassr against Al-Wehda this 週末, taking his goal 一致する for the season to 47 strikes, before Mes si dazzled for の間の Miami by grabbing five 補助装置s 加える a goal of his own in a 6-2 勝利，勝つ over New York Red Bulls.

The two superstars have been comfortably the best players on the 惑星 over the last two １０年間s, 得点する／非難する／２０ing 1,500 goals between them - with Messi （人命などを）奪う，主張するing eight Ballon d'Ors and Ronaldo 収入 five.?

Ronaldo, 39, and Messi, 36, have 耐えるd a 競争 that became 明らかな as they 戦う／戦いd for the acclaimed individual prize across many years and Liverpool legend Carragher believes their longevity is 負かす／撃墜する to their 憎悪 for each other as they are 絶えず trying to 'outshine' each other.?

Speaking to Football365, he said: 'They definitely made each other better. But I think they probably can’t 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる that until they’ve finished. While they’re playing, I bet they can’t stand each other.?

Cristiano Ronaldo (left), 39, and Lionel Messi (権利), 36, have played on because they 'can't stand each other', （人命などを）奪う，主張するs Jamie Carragher

Carragher says the superstars have 絶えず tried to 'outshine' each other in their careers

'No 事柄 what one did, the other would come 支援する at them. They could never 残り／休憩（する）. They could never enjoy what they’d done as much because they knew the other one would be coming 支援する at them to go and get more goals.?

'I always felt that if one of them 得点する／非難する／２０d a hat-trick, the next night the other one would go and get a hat-trick. They had to always 完全に outshine each other.'

Carragher 追加するd that it was remarkable to see two players 勝利，勝つ the Ballon d'Or so many times and doesn't believe football will have two 最高の，を越す players like Messi and Ronaldo play for so long at the 最高の，を越す again.?

'普通は, if someone would 勝利，勝つ the Ballon d’Or two or three times, they were an 絶対の god,' he 追加するd. 'These two were both winning it five, six, seven times. And you’d think, ‘If Ronaldo wasn’t here, Messi probably would have won the Ballon d’Or 12 times.’

I’ve never seen anyone have the longevity at the 最高の，を越す of those two. Maybe someone could get to their level for two or three years, but to go for as long as those players have, I’m not sure we’ll ever see that again.

Ronaldo and Messi's 競争 began during a high-profile （一定の）期間 when they went up against each other for Real Madrid and Barcelona

Ronaldo was banned by Saudi 長，指導者s after he 答える／応じるd to 詠唱するs of 競争相手 Messi's 指名する by signaling に向かって his nether 地域s at the end of Al Nassr's 勝利，勝つ over Al Shabab (left picture)

The Sky Sports pundit 追加するd that the 競争 between the pair would have been tougher for Ronaldo to 対処する with because 'seven or eight people out of ten would say Messi was the better player'.

He 追加するd that narrative 'must have driven Ronaldo on' to become better and better to 得点する／非難する／２０ more goals and 勝利，勝つ more トロフィーs.?

Ronaldo has 定期的に been teased by 競争相手 fans in Saudi Arabia over his 競争 with the Argentine, with 支持者s goading him with 詠唱するs of 'Messi, Messi.'?

On one occasion this season, the Portuguese 今後 was 困らすd by the 詠唱するs as he made an obscene gesture に向かって Al Shabab fans who had been 的ing him.??

As fans 詠唱するd 'Messi, Messi' from the stands, Ronaldo was seen cupping his ears before signaling に向かって his nether 地域s in a ビデオ which quickly went viral on social マスコミ.

That gesture earned him a one-match 禁止（する） by Saudi 長，指導者s, with the player 軍隊d 支払う／賃金 a 罰金 of 10,000 Saudi riyals ($2,666) to the Saudi Football 連合, and 20,000 riyals to Al-Shabab to cover the costs of the （民事の）告訴 とじ込み／提出するing 料金s. ?