Lionel Messi marked Venezuela in the World Cup Qualifiers of South America? Well, Cristiano Ronaldo responded with a double at the beginning of the World Cup qualifiers.
Thanks to the pair of annotations that marked Armenia, CR7 became the first player who reaches the 140 official goals in national team football. And, right now, it has an advantage of 26 goals compared to Lionel Messi, who is his closest persecutor.
Top scorers soccer of selections
- Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal): 140 goals in 222 games.
- Lionel Messi (Argentina): 114 goals in 194 games.
- Ali Daei (Irán): 109 goals in 149 games.
- Sunil Chhetri (India): 95 goals in 155 games.
- Rome Luke (Bellwha): 89 goals in 124 games.
- Mokhtar Dahari (Malaysia): 89 goals in 142 games.
- Ali Mabkhout: 85 goals in 115 games.
- Robert Lewandowski (Polonia): 85 goals in 159 games.
- Ferenc Puskás (HUNGRIA): 84 goals in 89 games.
- Godfrey Chiths (Zambia): 79 goals in 111 games.
- Neymar Júnior (Brazil): 79 goals in 128 games.
- Hussein Saeed (Irak): 78 goals in 137 games.
Impossible to discard Lionel Messi in a scoring battle. However, everything indicates that his retirement from the Argentine National Team will arrive after the 2026 World Cup.
Then, for a time issue, it looks complicated that Cristiano Ronaldo Dos Santos Aveiro can overcome, who will also be in the next World Cup and plans to play, at least, up to 42 years of age (he renewed with Al Nassr until 2027).
Undefeated data
Cristiano Ronaldo (38) is 1 single score of becoming the top historical scorer of the World Cup qualifiers globally. 1 both to tie the Ruiz Pescadito record (39).
Did you know what …?
Cristiano Ronaldo is only 58 scores to reach 1000 official goals in his professional career. He would be the first player in the whole story that he gets. The road to CR1000.
