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Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo holds the record for most goals in the UEFA Champions League (140 goals), and the record for most goals in the UEFA European Championship (14), its qualification stage (40), and the FIFA Club World Cup (7), as well as most goals scored in a UEFA Champions League season (17 in ...
[12] [13] [14] He has scored a record 14 goals at the European Championships, eight at the World Cup, nine in the UEFA Nations League and two at the Confederations Cup. [3] Ronaldo has scored 36 goals in FIFA World Cup qualifiers and 41 goals in UEFA Euro qualifiers, hence becoming the first player to score more than fifty goals in European ...
In doing so, he became the first Portuguese player to score a goal in four World Cups and one of four players of any nationality to do so. [430] On 20 June, Ronaldo scored the only goal in a 1–0 win against Morocco, breaking Puskás' record as the highest European goalscorer of all time, with 85 international goals. [431]
On average, that gives Messi the edge, with 0.786 goals per game, compared to 0.736 for Ronaldo. But for the total numbers, Ronaldo is unparalleled, and he used those numbers to back up his case ...
On 9 February, Ronaldo scored all four goals in a 4–0 win over Al Wehda, his first goal of the match being his 500th career league goal. [193] According to the BBC , Ronaldo's transfer to Al-Nassr led a "revolution" in Asian football, with many players from other leagues, particularly those in Europe, transferring to Saudi Pro League clubs ...
“The world record, the only player to score in five World Cups, makes me very proud.” Ronaldo started World Cup play in 2006 in Germany and scored his first World Cup goal that year against Iran.
A total of over 2,700 goals have been scored in matches across the 22 final tournaments of the men's FIFA World Cup, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs. [1] Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent in 1930 , [ 2 ] nearly 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup tournaments, [ 3 ] of whom 101 have ...
The 37-year-old striker converted a penalty in the 65th minute to give Portugal a 1-0 lead. Ronaldo scored one goal at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, another at the 2014 tournament in Brazil ...