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messi is a striker (some would say 2), ronaldo is a half striker 3/4 midfielder, his duties on the field are various. Now, it isn't a coincidence that the spanish midfield conquered the world cup, a midfield that belongs mostly to barcelona, being xabi alonso the madrid player. When you are getting passes from iniesta or xavi, half the work is done, ask Eto'o, ask Dinho. Barca has been building up and up since frank rijkard came into the coaching scene and ronaldinho put camp nou back on the map, xavi and iniesta (can't leave out puyol) are the soul of the team, picking up the baton dinho passed on. and yeah messi is great, but the same was said about past strikers in front of that same midfield.
R7 had been carrying most of the weight himself (now that oezil and kedehira are in it's not as much work) and he has still managed to keep up with his 1 for 1 goals per match.
If it were so true that messi has a "bigger effect on them team", then why didn't argentina take the WC? Ronaldo didn't win it with portugal aether, but he did light up the spark when portugal whooped spain 4-0. In soccer 1+1 usually never =2 but xavi + iniesta will always = a high scoring striker. madrid 2 barca 1. ronaldo and messi are too different to be compared fairly.
However i dont agree with blaming messi for argentina's failings, he was great and will continue to have a great influence on the national team, the reason i think they failed in the world cup was they had demichelis and guttierez in defence and just their defence in general was poor, leaving out zanetti and cambiasso was a huge mistake and i knew from the start they'd fall as soon as they played a team with a decent attack.
The big question? I'd go for a player that is a cross between those two and that would be 'the real' Ronaldo!