The goals of Cristiano Ronaldo’s professional career have been broken down. Ronaldo has managed to maintain his level amazingly well in his thirties.
20:25•Updated 20:32
A football player Cristiano Ronaldo is a person who divides opinions, but one thing cannot be disputed: the Portuguese has always been able to score goals and even more so at a ferocious pace.
Ronaldo scored his 900th professional goal in the Nations League against Croatia on Thursday night. The 39-year-old Ronaldo received a cross into the box and placed the ball with his right foot into the net. Portugal won the match 2–1.
Ronaldo’s right foot has always been hot.
Of his 900 goals, 547 have been scored with his right foot, he says The Athletic. Ronaldo has scored 151 of his goals with his head, 173 with his left foot, one with his right thigh and one with his left shoulder.
The Athletic has gathered other interesting information about Ronaldo’s 900th goal.
No other player has scored as many professional goals as Ronaldo. According to the IFFHS, which focuses on football statistics and history, Ronaldo is at the top, With Lionel Messi has 838 goals and With Pelé 762 goals.
7 hat tricks in one season
Ronaldo scored his first goal as a professional at the age of 17 in October 2002. The first four matches went goalless, but in the fifth he rumbled.
Ronaldo has scored the most goals in the ranks of Real Madrid, a total of 450. The Portuguese scored 145 goals in ManU’s shirt. The 131st goal in the national team shirt was scored against Croatia.
In total, Ronaldo has played 1,236 games.
The Real Madrid era was thus the most profitable for Ronaldo in terms of goals. At his best, he scored 69 goals in the 2011–2012 season. He scored 69 goals in 69 games, despite not hitting in 26 games. Ronaldo made up for his goalless game by scoring no less than seven hat tricks.
In total, Ronaldo has scored 66 hat tricks in his career. He has two five-goal games, both at Real Madrid in 2015.
164 of Ronaldo’s goals have been penalty kicks, 605 have come from game situations in the penalty area and 131 from outside the penalty area. There are 63 direct free kick goals.
“I want that”
Ronaldo has been amazingly able to maintain his level. When many top strikers start to get clogged up after the age of 30, this has not happened to Ronaldo. 437 of the goals were scored by the over 30-year-old Ronaldo.
Ronaldo himself can appreciate this.
– Only I myself, and my loved ones, know how hard it is to work every day to be physically and mentally fit to reach 900 goals, Ronaldo said after the Croatia game, according to the BBC.
Ronaldo’s next goal is to reach 1,000 goals.
– That’s what I want if I avoid injuries.
Sources: The Athletic, BBC.