Portugal once again had Cristiano Ronaldo to thank on Wednesday night, as his brace in the 2-2 draw with France saw them progress to the last 16 of the European Championship.
It was yet another historic night for Ronaldo, as his double saw him draw level with Ali Daei as the joint-highest goalscorer in international football, with 109 goals, and it looks to be only a matter of time before he becomes the outright record holder for international goals.
This feat is another example of how, statistically speaking, the Portuguese forward is the best goalscorer of all time.
This summer, Ronaldo has become the leading scorer in the history of the European Championship with 14 strikes in total, surpassing Michel Platini's total of nine whilst also leading the Euro 2020 Golden Boot race with five goals.
However, his records are not confined to the international football, as he also leads in key standings throughout the club game. He is the top scorer in the history of the Champions League with 134 goals, placing him 14 goals in front of closest challenger Lionel Messi on 120 strikes.
No one has scored more goals than Ronaldo in the five major leagues in Europe, with 479 goals scored across Portugal, England, Spain and Italy.
At Real Madrid, his goalscoring feats surpass Raul Gonzalez and Alfredo Di Stefano to place him as the leading goalscorer in the club's history with 451 goals in 438 matches.
Most significantly, he is the top scorer in football history, with 738 goals in 1,073 matches, surpassing goalscoring greats Pele and Josef Biscan.
Mosanya
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Cristiano Ronaldo is now the top scorer at: - ✅ EUROs ✅ Champions League ✅ Real Madrid ✅ Portugal ✅ International football - History maker! 🐐🇵🇹
ethbuna
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Another day, another record. 🐐 🇵🇹
Fadine7
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Messi fans reading this
Ceejap
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It took 36-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo 15 seconds to clear the ball from his own area, then score against Germany on the other side of the pitch 😍👏legend
Segda_10
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Congratulations @Allfootball Really the numbers don't lie Ronaldo is the All time UCL top scorer All time international goal scorer The first player to score 20 goals in Wc and Euro history,,, We(AFers in general) wish he win the Ballon d'or this year[100percent] Continue blowing CR7 the king of Europe
ethbuna
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An international record Cristiano is yet to chase down 😪. Only 3 more Penalities needed to equal Leo Messi's record!!👀⚽🙂 who is who
SH3012
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Then there is Pele,who has scored half of his goals in his garden and wants to convince using Instagram.🤣
Hydrogen-bonds
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The greatest player ever 🐐
Zoaclptz
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@Bay+ Football has always been about goals not great play or players. if by players then xavi and iniesta would be regarded as greater than Messi because they were better players than Messi.
you just confuse yourself. stop focus on just scores but combine all football genius skills that makes football a beautiful game to watch an sports entertainment.