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Cristiano Ronaldo has received 200 votes MORE than Lionel Messi across the history of Ballon d'Or voting... despite the PSG star winning the gong for a record seventh time this week

Lionel Messi may have won an unprecedented seventh Ballon d'Or this week but fans of Cristiano Ronaldo have found another way to show that the Manchester United man has the edge over the Argentina hero.

Ronaldo has won the gong five times himself - an incredible haul but ultimately now two less than Messi.

But remarkably, across the all-time history of Ballon d'Or voting Ronaldo has received 200 more votes than Messi - according to The Sun.

Lionel Messi of PSG won the seventh Ballon d'Or award of his career earlier this week
Ronaldo has won the award five times but appears to have had more votes across his career

Messi has received 3,574 votes across his career while Ronaldo has amassed a total of 3,781 - over 200 more than the Paris Saint-Germain player.