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In international football, reaching 100 combined goals and assists is an elite club reserved for the game’s most prolific and creative attackers — a testament to sustained brilliance across years, ...

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two of the three most capped international players of all time, but how do their records compare over their last 100 matches? We’ve crunched the numbers. With ...