Cristiano Ronaldo is edging his way to becoming the highest goal scorer in international football of all time.
Cristiano Ronaldo is now eight goals away from becoming the highest goal scorer in international football history.
The Portuguese forward came off the bench last night in a 7-0 thrashing over struggling Andorra to score his 102 goals for Portugal.
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He is now only seven goals away from equalling Iran’s Ali Daei for most international goals all time. Ali Daei scored 109 goals in 149 caps during his career before retiring in 2006 and the record is something the 35-year-old Ronaldo has been gunning for.
According to an article published by Goal, Cristiano Ronaldo is edging his way to becoming the highest goal scorer in international football of all time and will look to get closer to the record in Portugal’s Nations League ties against France and Croatia in this international break.
Meanwhile, he passed the100-goal mark by scoring twice in a 2-0 Nations League win over Sweden back in September.
The two goals against Sweden marked his 100th and 101st goals for Portugal. His landmark goal was scored via a direct-free kick, the 57th time in his career he has scored with one and the 10th for his country.
Speaking back in November when he scored goal no.99 for Portugal, the Portuguese goalscorer said: “All records must be broken and I will beat that record.”
Meanwhile, Portugal scored seven goals past Andorra to keep their form flying high thanks to goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, Paulinho, Bernardo Silva, Francisco Trincao, Joao Felix and Renato Sanches.
Pedro Neto opened the scoring as early as the eighth minute before debutant Paulinho scored a brace in between Renato Sanches’ first goal for country in over four years.
Andorra defender Emili Garcia’s own goal then added to the misery before Ronaldo got into the act and found the net while Joao Felix added the final strike to complete the route.
In a purely one-sided game, Portugal had 25 shots to Andorra’s zero. Santos’ men also managed to maintain 84 per cent possession in the second half and managed to complete a whopping 91 per cent of the passes attempted.
Portugal completed 621 passes compared to Andorra’s 127.
Here is the list of those topping the chart for all-time international goal scorers
- Ali Daei, Iran: 109 goals in 149 caps
- Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal: 101 goals in 167 caps
- Ferenc Puskas, Hungary: 84 goals in 85 caps
- Kunishige Kamamoto, Japan: 80 goals in 84 caps
- Godfrey Chitalu, Zambia: 79 goals in 111 caps
- Hussein Saeed, Iraq: 78 goals in 137 capsPele, Brazil: 77 goals in 92 caps
