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Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates (Reuters)
Cristiano Ronaldo just doesn’t stop breaking records. Thanks to the fact that he started in the media of the Portugal national team this evening (Thursday) in the opening game of the Euro 2024 qualifying campaign against Liechtenstein, the phenomenon, who also scored a brace in the easy 0:4 victory, made his 197th appearance in the Portuguese uniform, and broke an unimaginable record when he became the player with the most Performances in the history of national teams.
And Ronaldo doesn’t stop here. As mentioned, he scored a wonderful double. The phenomenon scored the first with a penalty and added with a free kick, the second game in a row after he also did it in Al Nasser’s uniform. In doing so, Ronaldo reached 120 goals in the uniform of the Portuguese national team. In addition, Ronaldo became the first player to score 20 consecutive years in the international arena.
On the way to the historic performance record, CR7 equaled Al-Mutawa from Kuwait who shared the first place with Ronaldo until today. In third place is Sun Chin An from Malaysia with 195 appearances (Cristiano overtook him in the last World Cup). In the rest of the list there are interesting names such as Sergio Ramos who is ranked seventh with 180 appearances, Andres Guardado right after him with 179 appearances, and Gianluigi Buffon who is out of the top 10 now with 176 appearances in the uniform of the Italian national team.
As a reminder, the 38-year-old phenomenon moved to Al-Nasser last January, made his debut in the national team on August 20, 2003, and the last so far was held on December 10, 2022 in the World Cup in Qatar. But tonight, after 19 years and 113 days of absolute dominance in the Selsao uniform, the phenomenon recorded another historic achievement that is added to the many others that the phenomenon achieved during his career.
