101%. Who scored for the national team Ronaldo

If you are reading this material, then you must know how Cristiano Ronaldo happened last night. The Nations League match between Sweden and Portugal became another benefit of the five-time Ballon d’Or winner, who scored both goals in the match. At the same time, Cristiano became the first European footballer to score a triple-digit number of goals for his national team, and this is a great occasion to remember the main ones.

First. Almost every player had a starting goal on some freight train with a passing opponent, and hardly anyone remembers it except themselves. Ronaldo also stands out in this context: his first effective hit for the national team took place in the opening match at home of the Eurocup.

Of course, it did not bring much joy to Cristiano: Greece Otto Rehhagel began to amaze from the first matches, defeating the owner and one of the main favorites of the tournament. Cristiano scored a classic prestigious goal: the Hellenes advanced the stoppage time by 2: 0, and the Portuguese, already in the last seconds of the game, closed the serve of Figo from a corner.

Semifinal. The second goal of Cristiano’s career was tremendously important: in the semi-finals of the Eurocup, the Portuguese once again helped crush the title hopes of naive Holland. Another corner allowed Ronaldo to open the scoring in the match, which ended with a score of 2: 1. The last match of the tournament in terms of the composition of the participants coincided with the first: in the fight for the trophy, they were for the Greeks, who ended up creating one of the main sensations in the history of football.

Humiliating Russia. After such a brilliant Euro, Cristiano continued to dazzle in the selection for the World Cup. Of course, the Portuguese qualifying group was very simple, but we can’t help but notice a match. When the Russian team reached Cristiano’s native José Alvalade, the result was almost a 7: 1 hockey score. Everything came together in a moment: the very weak coach Georgy Yartsev, who left the sidewalk and at the same time the team even before the final whistle, and the minor goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeev – and, of course, a great day for the “Brazilian Europeans. “. And to this day this defeat remains the largest in the history of independent Russia, Ronaldo scored the second and fourth goals.

It is interesting that not only for our northern neighbors, the greatest defeat in history occurred with the direct participation of Cristiano. At the 2010 World Cup, the “European Brazilians” left no stone unturned against the DPRK team, and it was Ronaldo who scored the sixth of seven goals. During the fight against Ri Myung Guk, Goldenboy handled the ball … with his back!

Kharkov. At Euro 2012, the Portuguese team was in the group of death: suffice it to say that the rivals included the bronze and silver medalists from the last World Cup. In the fight to get out of the group, Ronaldo and the company were considered outsiders in the context of Germany and the Netherlands, but Cristiano’s excellent double allowed Queiroz’s team to reach the playoffs. Goldenboy responded first to João Pereira’s excellent cutting pass, and then it worked perfectly during the counterattack.

Czechs and other Czechs. In the playoffs it was even a little easier at first: the Czech national team did not hide any other mysteries, except their excellent goalkeeper. Petr Cech, who had just led Chelsea almost single-handedly to the Champions League victory, had a poor start to the tournament but stayed there in the quarter-finals. Cristiano’s signature head blow also made him give up; in the semifinals, Spain beat its neighbors only on a penalty shoot-out.

Shooting with Ibrahimovic. The 2014 World Cup team hit nearly the most charismatic forwards of the generation on the head. Both Sweden and Portugal were poorly classified as such, and in the playoffs they beat each other. The World Cup had to do without Zlatan or Cristiano: there was more at stake than ever.

An ingenious shootout, first in Lisbon and then in Solna, ended in Ronaldo’s victory. 4: 2 was the total score of the opposition not between the teams of Portugal and Sweden, namely Cristiano and Ibrahimovic. Neither before nor after these teams played so much with their stars, neither before nor after, they did not depend so much on them. This, in principle, explains why both teams finished in the playoffs and couldn’t win their groups, but, one way or another, that playoff became an essentially individual sport.

Zlatan had enough for a double in Sweden, but Cristiano was stronger. A winning goal at home and a hat-trick at Friends Arena are an unbeatable argument for the team’s ambitions on the way to the World Cup. By the way, a few weeks later, Ronaldo twice became a Ballon d’Or, breaking Lionel Messi’s four-year hegemony. And there was a reason: the previous non-Swedish footballer who was so brilliant on the Swedish fields was, perhaps, Pelé during the 1958 World Cup.

Record. In the next match, on a freight train against Cameroon, Ronaldo became the top scorer in the history of the national team. Even before Cristiano, the Portuguese had a very decent indicator of the best: Pedro Pauleta shot up to 47 goals and, ridiculous as it may sound, it was seriously discussed for a long time whether Ronaldo could become the top scorer for the national team. Time has shown that he will be able to get around the second striker more than twice …

Almost champion. Euro 2016 started for both Ronaldo and his team it was very difficult: that the top scorer was collecting fouls, that the team could not win a single game until the playoffs. The playoffs, in fact, would not have been without Cristiano’s goal for the Hungarians, but when it comes to knockout games, the team changed first.

Here, however, we must remember that the tournament on the French fields was largely abnormal: suffice it to say that Wales reached the semi-finals. The team, imprisoned under Bale’s orders, pushed even Belgian stars out of the way, but Ronaldo from another sport was powerless not to jump. Cristiano’s blow to the head was victorious, and in the final, the “European Brazilians” themselves played the role of Greece at Euro 2004, beating the hosts in the final. He fulfilled his dream, he won the title of Ronaldo, when he did not play the best tournament, but at the same time, his teammates played well at the moment.

One against all. Cristiano did not develop well with the world championships for a long time. Goals to Iran and North Korea are very few for a giant of the game, and the person who gradually became a multiple Ballon d’Or winner had no great achievements. It was at the World Cup that the team underwent a generational change, experienced a harsh game crisis, and only in the state of the current European champion did he perform so that he was not ashamed of it.

However, in the first match of the 2018 World Cup, the “European Brazilians” seemed like a scapegoat, just as their rival, the Spanish national team, seemed one of the main favorites of the tournament. Uncontrollable, deprived of a coach, Red Fury fell apart later, and against Portugal he was more than good with the control of the ball, and with the last pass, and with the conversion.

There was simply a man who knew how to face an entire team of Spanish stars in one person: Ronaldo’s hat-trick allowed the Portuguese to achieve a draw. It was after his effective free kicks, penalties and the game that the Spanish went downhill: Hierro could not restart the team, played terribly against Iran, Russia and left the tournament in disgrace. Portugal also advanced to the playoffs, where, however, they immediately flew in from Uruguay.

Trophy by trophy. Three years passed between Ronaldo’s first and second national team titles: Portugal made history as the first team to win the Nations League. In the semi-finals of the tournament, Cristiano declassified Switzerland, scoring another hat-trick.

Ukrainian. Everyone remembers it, and many even saw Ronaldo’s goal against our national team. Of course, Cristiano can hardly take that game on his trick: he was isolated from his attack partners and, apart from hitting from the “point”, he did not show anything special. By the way, the defeat of Portugal, whenever Cristiano scored a goal, is something extremely rare: apart from Ukraine and Greece, only the Danish team achieved it in official matches in the Euro 2012 national team.

From Sweden with love. Another soccer feat in Ronaldo’s career came in handy. At a time when Cristiano missed the game with Switzerland due to problems with his form, the national team simply dismantled very strong Croats piecemeal without him. The question hung in the air: do the Portuguese really still need their most star player? Isn’t it time to get used to living without it?

Practice has shown that it takes a lot, a lot. Practice has shown that it is too early to pick up even Ronaldo’s free kicks, despite Portugal’s abundance of masters – a trip to the very inhospitable Swedes ended in another victory. The excellent free kicks and from the field allowed Cristiano to record the first hundred goals for the national team and start the second.

The most foolish thing to do in the context of all these goals and records for Cristiano is to prove him by Ali Daei’s record, to compare him to a man who has not scored anyone stronger than Ukraine. The scale of Ronaldo’s personality has long been higher than any record, it is he who decorates new and new achievements with his surname, and not the other way around. Much more useful to think about: what does your career tell us in general?

16 years ago, when Ronaldo closed the hood on Figo and asked Nicopolidis, he was already a great and appreciated player. Since then, many of his teammates and rivals have even managed to end his coaching career, not to mention playing, and Cristiano continues to fight for the status of best here and now. He was able to realize himself one hundred, even one hundred and one percent, and our great happiness to have been able to capture this phenomenon in the field.