The population of Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the greatest football players in history, is forty years old. He is still playing, and still scores the goals and has not even showed the slightest hint of the desire to retire.
To celebrate this occasion, Athlete He reached 40 statistics, facts and pieces of trivia around the Portuguese striker and his wonderful professional life.
Did you play most games in the history of sports? What is the only competition in which Ronaldo appeared but not registered? Who is the oldest teammate in the generator who appeared beside?
Answers to all of that and much more here …
1) Ronaldo played 1261 professional matches in his career – 31 for CP sport, 346 in Manchester United, 438 for Real Madrid, 134 in Juventus, 95 for Nasser and 217 for Portugal. He has played a total of 102,962 minutes, or 71 days, since he first appeared in August 2002. His side triumphed in 833 of these games, at a rate of 66.1 percent victory.
Ronaldo is celebrating the scoring in Al -Nasr on Monday (Abdullah Ahmed/Getty Pictures)
2) Ronaldo scored 923 goals – more than Terry Henry, Alessandro del Piero and Marcus Rashford combined. The first came in October 2002 for a sport on the best journey in Portugal and the most recent of which was in favor of Nasser in the Champions League on Monday. Below is the collapse of Ronaldo’s goals by the teams he played.
3) These 1,261 Ronaldo games mean 122 years from Peter Shelton’s scored in most of the matches played in the history of football from the highest level. The England goalkeeper appeared in 1383 official levels of the highest level during a profession that spanned 1966 to 1997. However, the 44 -year -old Brazilian goalkeeper, who plays in his homeland, played 1342 games and only 41 games from Shelings brand .
4) On March 29 this year, the first appearance of Ronaldo will be closer to the seventies than it is to this day.
5) Ronaldo scored the largest goals in the European Champions League history, with 140 years. The first came in April 2007 for Manchester United against Rome and the last of it was against Villarreal in November 2021, as well as to United. Surprisingly, he took 27 games to score his first goal in the competition. Below Ronaldo’s path to scored 140 goals.
6) The 40-year-old scored the largest goal in the history of international football for men-to find a net 135 times for Portugal. Of these goals, 83 came amazing after his thirtieth birthday. This means that he scored more goals for Portugal since it reached 30 years more than anyone else, at any age, compared to 202 out of 210 other known FIFA. The eight exceptions are: Argentina (Lionel Messi: 112), Iran (Ali Day: 108), India (Sonel Tcha is: 94), Malaysia (Mukhtar Dahari: 89), United Arab Emirates (Ali Makhkhout: 85), Belgium (Romelu Lukaku : 85), Hungary (Ferve Puskas: 84), and Poland (Robert Lewandowski: 84).
7) Ronaldo also played most games in the history of international football for men, with 217. This number means that he appeared in 32 percent of matches in the history of Portugal. They played their first match in 1921 – nearly 82 years before Ronaldo appeared.
8) In his first season, Ronaldo played alongside Paulo Bento, who was born before humans walking on the moon (June 1969).
Ronaldo after his registration to Portugal in Euro 2004 against the Netherlands (Francois Gillot/AFP/Getty Images)
9) 11 percent of the goals were scored in the history of Portugal (135 out of 1197).
10) He scored 590 goals with his right foot, 178 with his left foot, 153 with his head, one with his right thigh (for Manchester United vs. West Ham United in the Premier League in May 2008) and one with the left elbow (Madrid against Athletic Club in the Spanish League in October 2014) . If his goals are excluded with his stronger right foot, he will continue 333 times – 11 more than Robin Van Persie in his entire career and 12 less than the total of Diego Maradona of 345.
11) During his last five seasons in Madrid (2013-14 to 2017-18), Ronaldo scored 34 goals in the knockout stage in the Champions League-21 more than anyone else during this period. These 34 goals came in only 32 games and Ronaldo was in his thirties for 26 games. Madrid won the competition in four of those seasons. Here are the 10 best scorers in the knockout stage during that period.
12) In general, Ronaldo scored 105 goals for Madrid in the Champions League in his nine seasons in the club – more than six Manchester United, who left him to join the Spanish giants, and scored in the competition in this period.
13) Ronaldo is the only man who scored in the five World Cup (2006, 2010, 2018, 2018 and 2022). He will hope to make this six in North America next year.
14) Although the network was found in five versions of the championship, Ronaldo has never been scored in the World Cup -out exit phase. He played eight games and a total of 569 minutes of football by knockout in the competition. On the other hand, Fontaine scored seven goals in 270 minutes for France in the 1958 World Cup exit.
15) Ronaldo scored 66 trilogy in his career-all of us.
16) Ronaldo scored 202 different teams in his career – with the Spanish club Sebella (27 goals), he found the side that the network found against the most.
17) Here are the nine teams that Ronaldo played against more than twice and has never scored.
18) Most of the games, in a row, recorded by Ronaldo in all competitions are 11 – from February 11, 2014 to April 2, 2014.
19) Most of the games in a row that Ronaldo went without registration is 27. This range lasted from December 22, 2002 to October 25, 2003.
20) Ronaldo scored most of the goals in the history of the European Championship, with 14.
21) He also played most games in the history of the European Championship, with 30. These matches encountered six championships (also a record), with 2004 the first euros and 2024. Ronaldo played alongside a person born in 1969 in the past (Fernando Coto) and a person born in 2004 in the end (Joao Nevis).
22) Veins were born in the Portugal team in Euro 2024 after Ronaldo International appeared for the first time in August 2003 (Antonio Silva was born in October 2003 and was born Nevis in September 2004).
23) Most of the goals Ronaldo scored in a season (for the club and the country) are 69 in 2011-12. He scored more than 50 goals in nine different campaigns during his career. Below is a complete collapse.
24) Ronaldo played in the same team as most of the matches in his career is Karim Benzema, with 355 (everything for Madrid).
25) Ronaldo scored 791 out of 923 his goal from inside the box, a number that includes 172 penalty kicks. He scored 132 goals from outside the box.
26) Ronaldo scored 28 different competitions in his career, with a collapse below. The only competition he played and has never scored is the shield of English society (a one -time match between the winners of the previous season in the Premier League and the FA Cup). Ronaldo, 22, appeared against Chelsea in the 2007 edition of Manchester United, but he was unable to find the network in a 1-1 draw before United’s victory over penalty shootouts (he did not participate in the shooting).
27) Ronaldo scored more goals in his thirties in his twenties. He scored 460 goals (in 543 games) from the age of 30 to 39 and 440 goals (in 596 games) from 20 to 29.
28) Every year, he recorded his career, from 2002 to 2025.
29) He scored 64 free kicks in his career, the first in the English Premier League for Manchester United against Portsmouth in November 2003. Most of him recorded in a seven season, in 2011-12 (more than what happened in 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 combined). The only campaign for Ronaldo’s profession in which he did not score a free kick is his first campaign-2002-2003.
30) Ronaldo scored 23 goals in the finals – three for Manchester United, 15 for Madrid, and two for Juventus and three Lasar. Here they are:
31) It has been registered against 48 different international aspects. These are four more than one countries in Europe, according to the United Nations.
32) Division of the match that Ronaldo scored most of the time in the 76th minute to 90. While the period he found at least at least (except for extra time) is the first 15 minutes.
33) Ronaldo scored 25 goals in his last 18 Champions League in Madrid. He scored more than once in nine of these matches.
34) Ronaldo scored in 10 major championships (five World Cup and five European championships). No European player found the last network with more than six.
35) Ronaldo’s first career appeared in the same year as Paul Jacquin played his final match in the highest English aviation (2002).
36) This appearance came for the first time during the brief abandonment of FIFA from the base that the player will appear a yellow card to take his shirt. However, a long time after Ronaldo made a free football, restored the base. It is not known whether the two are linked.
Ronaldo is celebrating registration in Madrid in the Champions League final in 2014 (Lars Baron/Getty Pictures)
37) His 31 goals in the Premier League in the 2007-2008 season are the most registered in the Manchester United league campaign since 1959-1960 when Dennis Violet scored 32 times.
38) Ronaldo did not perform 24 percent of the shootings that were on its soil throughout his career (four out of 17).
39) He never scored on his birthday, playing three games on February 5 in his career. Academica (Eighteenth Christmas in 2003), Birmingham City (twentieth birthday in 2005) and Atletico Madrid (29th birthday in 2014) are the three aspects that destroyed Ronaldo’s Great Day. However, the 11 best games in his career began to play a void against Atletico in 2014.
40) Ronaldo is the only player who scored a penalty kick in the additional time in the European Champions League final – and he does this in the 120th minute against Atletico in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon in 2014. He was booked to take his shirt at the celebration.
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