MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo heads to Saturday’s (Sunday in Manila) Champions League final against Juventus on the brink of realising a burning ambition of matching Lionel Messi’s record of winning the Ballon d’Or five times.

“I want to catch Messi,” Ronaldo confessed when collecting his third World Player of the Year crown back in 2015.

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