2024-04-09 17:18:25
Text: Alejandro Varela
Not because it was expected, it stops being news. Cristiano Ronaldo became the top scorer of all time in official football matches, although this event does not come without controversy.
The Portuguese star scored two goals on Tuesday in Juventus’ important victory against Inter in the Italian Cup semi-finals and raised his scoring record to 763. According to statistics reflected by several of the most prestigious sports media in the world, the main scorer of the Champions League surpassed by a bit the legendary Brazilian Pelรฉ and the Austro-Czech Josef Bican, both owners of 762 goals in their excellent careers.
Other publications, however, place CR7 still in fourth position in history, conceding 805 goals to Bican, 772 to Romario, and 767 to Pelรฉ. The most recent of the questions came from the Czech Football Federation itself when the Portuguese approached the aforementioned goal.
Faced with the imminent threat of losing a mark in its possession for more than 80 years, the History and Statistics Committee of football in that European nation took the trouble to investigate and add up again all the goals scored by Bican, that mythical striker who shone in the 1930s and saw his career frustrated by World War II.
The fact is that the more than 800 perforations of Pepi, as the Austrian-Czech was known in the world of football, are possible only if we add his goals with various regional teams and not in professional or comparable category competitions, as claimed by the Marca newspaper, one of the most fervent defenders of Ronaldo’s milestone.
To certify such a theory, the prestigious and influential media based in the Spanish capital published an extensive infographic that gives an account of the official goals of each player in question, with meticulous details of their records. The result is evident: CR7 is the new king among all-time scorers.
But beyond the controversy, always an indispensable condiment in football, especially when the name of Cristiano – or Messi – is involved, the most illustrious of the sons of the Portuguese island of Madeira has just written another page in his exquisite record. of achievements on a soccer field.
Both he and the Argentine D10S must continue to increase their extraordinary scoring levels in the final stretch of their careers and further enlarge the letters with which their names are already engraved in the Olympus of the most universal of sports. Keep the records coming, please.