Cristiano Ronaldo, striker and captain of the national team, can spend this evening against Ireland becoming the top scorer in football history, ahead of the national team if he scores even if it is just a goal, and reach 110 thanks to the Portuguese team.
The current 109 points, from five goals scored in the last European championship that earned him the Golden Boot, is equal to Iranian Ali Daei, now 52, who represented Iran in 149 games from 1996 to 2003. For the clubs: He has had a low-key international career, representing mainly the clubs of his country, with the exception of a five-year period in Germany, during which he played for Bayern Munich for a year.
NEVER MARKED IRELAND
Cristiano Ronaldo has never scored against Ireland anyway. The first game he played was in Dublin, privately, in February 2014. In this game Portugal lost 0: 1 and which seems to have been so long ago that apart from Ronaldo there is only one player from this team who is active: midfielder Manuel Fernandez, now 35, who represents the Turks of Kayserispor. Ronaldo’s other game with the Irish was in New York, USA, an exhibition game that Portugal won 5-1 in 2014 and in which CR7 did not score.
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