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Crowned the top scorer in history! The 40-year-old veteran shows off his power! Cristiano Ronaldo scored 948 goals, breaking the record

10:47am, 16 October 2025Football

This time the national team match day has come to an end. Cristiano Ronaldo had a good performance in the last game of the national team match. He scored two goals. With these two goals, Cristiano Ronaldo broke the world preliminaries scoring record.

In this game when Portugal was tied 2-2 by Hungary, Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice! It was these two goals that allowed the 40-year-old Ronaldo to score 41 goals in the World Cup preliminaries in his career, surpassing the famous Guatemala Carlos Ruiz (39 goals). Ronaldo was crowned the historical scorer in the World Cup preliminaries and set a new goal record in the World Cup preliminaries!

In addition, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 143 goals in the Portuguese national team, continuing to set the national team's historical scoring record, and is leading the way! Ronaldo ranks first on the national team's historical scorer list with 143 goals, 29 goals ahead of second-ranked Messi (114 goals).

If only players from the European region are counted, then Ronaldo can be said to have surpassed other players! Ranking of the European national team's top scorers, Cristiano Ronaldo tops the list with 143 goals, and is 54 goals ahead of second-place Lukaku (89 goals). It is worth mentioning that after the age of 30, Ronaldo scored 91 goals for the Portuguese national team, surpassing Lukaku (89 goals), the Belgian national team's historical top scorer.

What is even more amazing is that Ronaldo has scored a total of 948 goals in his entire career so far, making him the player with the most goals in football today.

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