ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 11: FIFA Ballon d’Or nominees Lionel Messi of Argentina and FC Barcelona (L) and Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Real Madrid (R) attend a press conference prior to the FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala 2015 at the Kongresshaus on January 11, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
Soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have stepped up to help their countries battle the coronavirus.
Messi made 500,000€ donations each to a hospital clinic in Barcelona, where he currently plays for the Spanish football club, and to a medical clinic in his native Argentina.
Ronaldo, along with his agent, pitched in another 1 million Euros to be put towards three Portuguese intensive care units caring for COVID-19 patients.
In gratitude, the hospital in Porto will name the unit after Ronaldo and Jorge Mendes at a later date.
