Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have pushed soccer into an era where statistics bend around their brilliance, and yet a single question continues to return with fresh urgency: Who has more total goal contributions this century?

Barcelona icon Lionel Messi continued to etch his name ever further into the history books of world football in the early hours of Monday.This came by way of his latest performance in the colours of

In less than 12 months, 17-year-old Lennart Karl has gone from playing youth football to starting Champions League games for Bayern Munich and being in contention to go to the World Cup.

Spain and Barcelona star Lamine Yamal said he has modeled some aspects of his game after the likes of Lionel Messi and Luka Modric, specifically singling out their "clever" passing ability as the aspects of their game he's taken the most inspiration from.