Timeless

No player has played more international matches for the national team than Ronaldo, with 206 caps for A Selecao. He is also at the top of the list at Euro 2024.

Ronaldo is also the only player to have appeared in 5 Euro finals. In the near future, in the “fiery” summer in Germany, he will create a new record – with his 6th appearance.

Ronaldo also has at least 6 more matches in the Euro arena than anyone else. Pepe is the second ranked player with 19 appearances in the Euro finals, he can surpass the 20th milestone.

Pepe, at 41 years old, can also become the oldest player in Euro finals history, when playing with Ronaldo, Luka Modric – former Real teammates can become the oldest player to score at the tournament. prestigious Euro school!

In total, Ronaldo has had 12 wins at the Euro Finals, and at the present time, no one can compare to him in terms of this Record.

List of players with the most matches at Euro:

25: Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

19: Joao Moutinho and Pepe (both Portuguese)

18: Leonardo Bonucci (Italy), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany)

17: Gianluigi Buffon and Giorgio Chiellini (both from Italy)

King of goalscoring

With a total of 14 goals scored, Ronaldo is also the player who scored the most goals in the Euro finals. The player closest to him has only 9 goals (Michel Platini – France).

The players ranked 3rd and 4th are those who will play in Germany in the near future, with 7 and 6 goals: Antoine Griezmann (France); Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) and Alvaro Morata (Spain).

If counting the number of goals in the qualifying round of the Euro arena, Ronaldo also takes the absolute lead with 41 goals scored.

In the 2021 tournament, for the third time in a row, Ronaldo also scored at least 3 goals in each Euro finals. He is also the only person to win the Player of the Match award 6 times.

One of Ronaldo’s dangerous weapons is headers. He is also the only player with 5 goals from headers in the Euro finals.

In addition, it will not be surprising that Ronaldo also had the most Euro matches where he scored at least 1 goal, or scored a double (10 matches scored 1 goal and 4 matches scored a double).

He is also the player who takes the most penalty kicks in matches (3 times), which makes many anti-fans call him the “Foul eater” of penalties over the years.

If we take into account the scoring record for the national team in all competitions, Ronaldo also surpasses the second place person, Iranian Legend – Ali Daei.

The Portuguese superstar has scored 128 goals for the team (20 goals more than Daie).

He is also the only person to have scored in 10, 11 and 12 consecutive tournaments. If the “fire point” is successful, he will have his 13th consecutive tournament this summer.

And no player has scored against as many other national teams as CR7, with the number 47. The number can be “wide open” when Portugal plays against Turkey and Georgia (the two teams he never kicked a goal).

The gap between the first goal and the last goal that Ronaldo scored was 17 years and 14 days.

He also needs one more assist to equal the assist record of Karel Poborsky (of the Czech Republic). To date, Ronaldo has made 7 decisive passes in the Euro.