Cristiano Ronaldo enters the final phase of the 2024 European Football Championship, which begins on Friday, with more than 900 official career goals scored since he became a senior with Sporting in the 2002/03 season.
After scoring a double against Ireland (3-0), scoring with his left foot in the 50th and 60th minutes in Wednesday’s friendly in Aveiro, the Portugal ‘captain’, 39, went on to score 901 goals in 1246 games.
Ronaldo passed the nine-hundred goal mark, scoring 129 and 130 goals for the main Portuguese football team, which he has represented 207 times, since his Chaves debut for Kazakhstan on 20 August 2003.
The Portuguese “7” holds the world record for most international goals and is also the top scorer in the history of “giant” Real Madrid, for whom he scored 450 goals, not counting the one attributed to Pepe, with an impressive tally. averaging more than one try per game, as he only represented the merengue 438 times.
The second club he scored the most for was Manchester United, whom he represented between 2003/04 and 2008/09 and again in the 2021/22 and 2022/23 seasons, scoring 145 goals in 346 games.
With Juventus, where he played for three seasons, from 2018/19 to 2020/21, he also reached his century, scoring 101 goals in 134 matches, while playing for Al-Nasr, where he has been playing since 2022/ 23 years old, he will score 64 goals in 70 matches.
However, Ronaldo’s introduction to goals began at Sporting, his last training club, where he still had time in the 2002/03 season to score five goals in 31 games, the first two in a 3-0 win over Moreirense in Alvalade, 7 October 2002
The other goals for the player born in Funchal on 5 February 1985 came against Portugal’s U21s (three in 2002/03), U20s (one in 2002/03) and Olympique Mars (two in 2002/03). . 2004/05), one of them at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
In terms of the competitions he has participated in, the most goals scored were in the Spanish League (311), followed by 141 in the Champions League, including qualifying rounds, 103 in the Premier League and 81 in Serie A.
In total, Cristiano Ronaldo scored 901 goals as a senior, giving him 99 goals out of 1000, a record the Portuguese footballer is still aiming to achieve in the final stages of his career and as he approaches 40 years of age. .
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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