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It's time to hit the road.

Elite-level footballers are used to having to travel all over the world to take part in matches for club and country, and some new research shows just how far they do travel.

The travel habits of globetrotting goalkeepers and goalscorers were examined by online travel agency Kiwi.com , and the results were somewhat surprising.

They showed that - perhaps given the fact that his professional career started way back in 1998 - it is Iker Casillas who is the most-travelled among the currently active top-level players.

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More interestingly though, the figures also show that Cristiano Ronaldo - who is third on the most-travelled list - has gone 27,000 miles further over his career than his great rival Lionel Messi, who is fourth.

Given that Ronaldo moved from Sporting Lisbon to Manchester United and then to Real Madrid, then clearly he's a man not afraid of broadening his horizons, and he's travelled a staggering 545,294 miles over his career.

(Image: Reuters) (Image: REUTERS)

The full top 10 looks like this:

Miles travelled by top-level footballers over their careers

But when it comes to scoring goals on his travels, there are no less than SIX players who have a better record of goals per 10,000 miles travelled than Ronaldo and Messi.

That list includes Wayne Rooney, who thanks to his record-breaking hauls for Manchester United and England, averages a record of 13.12 goals per 10,000 miles.

Here's that top 10:

Goals scored per 10,000 miles travelled

Which just goes to show that, as well as broadening the mind, travel also broadens the goalscoring record!