Portugal ensured its qualification for Euro 2024 by winning against Slovakia (3-2) on Friday, with a double from Cristiano Ronaldo, who continues to improve his exceptional statistics.
The Estadio do Dragao in Porto paid tribute to “CR 200” on Friday evening, a few months after Cristiano Ronaldo’s 200th selection with Portugal. The evening was crazy. The Seleçao offered themselves a 7th victory in as many matches in the Euro 2024 qualifiers, against Slovakia (3-2), and pocketed their qualification for the tournament organized in Germany next year. A nice full box.
CR 200 👑
Incredible tribute from supporters to Cristiano Ronaldo who celebrates his 200th cap with Portugal 🇵🇹 pic.twitter.com/7nIVdsKWza
— French Football Weekly (@football_fr) October 13, 2023
As for the idol Ronaldo specifically? The five-time Ballon d’Or winner struck hard again by scoring a double. He first converted a penalty (29th), after the opener from PSG striker Gonçalo Ramos (18th), then scored the 3rd on a cross from the untenable Bruno Fernandes (72nd). The Al-Nassr player has now reached 125 goals in 202 international matches! At 38 years old, the top scorer in the history of football still has at least until the next Euro to improve his stats.
https://twitter.com/centregoals/status/1712925847210856656
Completely crazy statistic: Ronaldo has scored 73 goals with Portugal since he was thirty, a total which is higher than the top scorers of the Blues (Olivier Giroud, 52 goals), Germany (Miroslav Klose, 71), the Sweden (Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 62), Spain (David Villa, 60), England (Harry Kane, 59), the Netherlands (Robin van Persie, 50) and Italy (Gigi Riva, 35) . Just that !
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 72 international goals after turning 30. This is more than anyone has ever scored (AT ANY AGE) for Germany, France, Italy, England, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Croatia, Denmark, Uruguay, Colombia, Chile, Mexico , USA, Egypt, Ghana & 176 more countries.
— Will Jeanes (@will_jeanes) October 13, 2023
