THE CHAMPIONS WILL NOW HAVE NEW IDOLS
End of an era! This Champions League will be the first in 20 years without Messi and Cristiano
The 2023/24 edition of the Champions League will put an end to the era of Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in European football. Both footballers have marked themselves away from the continent and there will be new references in the highest competition at club level
This season of the League of Champions will have a milestone that did not occur from does two decades: it will be the first edition of the competition without the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi. This Tuesday 19 September will start the maximum tournament to level of clubs of Europe and will not have the two referents that marked a period in the history of the sport.
And it is that 'The Flea' took the decision to change of airs at the end of his agreement with Paris Saint-Germain and directed a new adventure in the MLS with the Inter of Miami. By his part, Cristiano Ronaldo went out of the Manchester United after the World-wide of Qatar 2022 and joined to the rows of the To the-Nassr Saudi under an agreement that turned him into the better footballer paid of the world.
The numbers of Cristiano and Messi
'CR7' did his debut in the continental competition in 2003 when it still belonged to the rows of the Sporting of Portugal and put end to his European stage in 2022 when leaving to the Saudi Professional League. It left a legacy of 5 Champions achieved, with 140 goals and 42 assistances in 183 parties contested, what leaves him like the maximum scorer in the history of the competition.
Messi premièred in 2004 of the hand of Frank Rijkaard and kept in the Barça until 2021, when it changed of airs course to Tie it 1 and put end to his stay in Europe this summer of 2023. To his 36 years, harvested a total of 129 goals and 37 assistances in 163 commitments. Besides, it heaved the 'Orejona' in 4 occasions and attained to annotate in front of 40 different teams.
However, this history has an end and already the podium of the best footballers of Europe has happened to hands of footballers younger, as Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappé. It seems complicated to live another similar period in back years, although his legacies will be remembered along the time of generation in generation.
