Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals for Portugal to Armenia, in the start of the qualification phase for the 2026 World Cup. It now has 140 goals in the service of the corner team (it is the best international scorer ever), and 38 of these goals were in qualification games for the world – and only one player has more.
CR7 entered the field this Saturday with 36 goals in these phases, the same as Lionel Messi, who scored against Venezuela in the one who should be the last game of the Argentine at the service of the national team. But Ronaldo has surpassed him and now, only Guatemaco Carlos Ruiz has more goals than Portuguese in qualification phases for the world.
The former striker, who hung his boots in 2016, is the player with the most internationalizations by Guatemala (133), for which he scored 68 goals. And it did so 39 times when I was trying to take the national team to a World Cup, something I never got.
Carlos Ruiz, Lenda da Guatemala (Imago)
Now, with five more games ahead until the 2026 World Cup and judging by the form it presents, Ronaldo, who is a goal of equalizing Carlos Ruiz’s record, is released to break this record – just one more in his illustrious career.
In these qualification phases for world championships, the largest victim of Ronaldo’s goals is Luxembourg (six), followed by Andorra and Latvia, each of which the striker scored five goals.
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