Cristiano Ronaldo, the insatiable scorer who goes for a brand that neither Pele nor Messi have been able to register

Correction: This note was originally published in October 2021, when Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal for the Champions League with Manchester United.

Dial to Cristiano Ronaldo It is an almost impossible task for any defender, but keeping track of his scoring records is a titanic exercise for even the most meticulous statistician. Cataloged by many as the best in history, following his numbers becomes an activity that has to be revalidated every time he plays, game by game. This Tuesday the Portuguese scored a triplet in the Portugal’s 5-0 win over Luxembourg for the European Qualifiers towards Qatar 2022 and reached 114 goals at the national team level, well above his closest pursuer, Lionel Messi (80).

We will not discover anything if we say that CR7, for several years, has known how to reinvent itself to be in the Olympus of football together with Lionel Messi (Fighting for the one who holds the throne) The former Argentine footballer and one who analyzes football like few others, Diego LaTorre, described the new Cristiano like this: “his accelerations, his unchecks, his positioning at the far post, his ability to shoot from the right, from the left, with the head, his sense of time to wait for that opportune moment to arrive first, his mentality to always be ready”.

That is Ronaldo, the insatiable scorer who has reached 794 official goals in his career this Tuesday and is only six away from being the first to score 800 goals in history. In addition, he has 22 targets to go to reach 700 at the club level. Historical, a word that can easily have its name as a synonym.

Despite what many believe, Skin it is not above Portuguese. The Brazilian is credited with 643 “official” goals for Santos; his career total is also up for debate, and FIFA’s estimate is 767. In either case, it is still surpassed by Manchester’s. For its part, Lionel Messi He has scored 753 goals so far, including the one he did to Uruguay last Sunday.

Are you going for the Ballon d’Or?

With 36 years and coins -in February he turns 37-, Cristiano Ronaldo prove once again that your age is just a number. In times where the physical reigns in football, CR7 is a cyborg. In his debut with the Manchester UnitedLast month, the Portuguese reached a top speed of 32.5 kilometers per hour in the run for his second goal, being one of the highest recorded in this Premier League start, according to the BBC.

In fact, since he turned 30, he has scored 332 goals. If we check their numbers in the Champions League, the data is unheard of. According to @OptaJoe, in 69 games at the European tournament since reaching base three, he has scored 64 goals, 35 more than any other player aged 30 and over in the history of the tournament.

Scorer of the Euro 2020, with a spectacular start to the season, Cristiano he gets involved little by little in the fight for him Golden Ball, a trophy that for now has Lionel Messi, his archrival in the field, as a favorite after winning the Copa América 2021. Jorginho, Champions of the Champions League with Chelsea and of the Euro with Italy, Robert Lewandowski, Bayern Munich scorer, and Karim Benzema, current Nations League champion with France, have also taken tickets. The five are the candidates according to the French newspaper L’Equipe, which belongs to the same company as France Football, which awarded the award.

The Manchester United attacker has five Ballons d’Or, one less than the Argentine. This year he will determine if he reaches it or if he sees how the new PSG star shoots himself with the award for the best in the world. For now, due to his numbers facing the goal, the Portuguese is above.