SQL: Two select statements in one query

You can do something like this:

 (SELECT
    name, games, goals
    FROM tblMadrid WHERE name = 'ronaldo')
 UNION
 (SELECT
    name, games, goals
    FROM tblBarcelona WHERE name = 'messi')
ORDER BY goals;

See, for example: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/union.html

If you like to keep records separate and not do the union.
Try query below

SELECT (SELECT name,
               games,
               goals
        FROM   tblMadrid
        WHERE  name = 'ronaldo') AS table_a,
       (SELECT name,
               games,
               goals
        FROM   tblBarcelona
        WHERE  name = 'messi')   AS table_b
FROM DUAL

The UNION statement is your friend:

SELECT   a.playername, a.games, a.goals
FROM     tblMadrid as a
WHERE    a.playername = "ronaldo"
UNION
SELECT   b.playername, b.games, b.goals
FROM     tblBarcelona as b
WHERE    b.playername = "messi"
ORDER BY goals;