Yassir Zabiri named Lionel Messi as the greatest of all time (GOAT), ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo, after scoring a brace to give Morocco a 2-0 win over Argentina in the U-20 World Cup final.

Cristiano Ronaldo has again been named the highest-paid player in the world, while Barcelona's phenom Lamine Yamal is on the list of the top 10, according to Forbes.

Football in the 21st century has, to a generation of young supporters, been the story of duopoly: Lionel Messi devotees and those who obsess about Cristiano Ronaldo. A two-party system has driven mass revenue and social media engagement to clubs and ...

BERLIN, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. sportswear group Nike is banking on its sponsorship of more of the world's best-known soccer stars than Adidas in its battle to overtake the German firm as the sport's top-selling brand at its World Cup this summer.