Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for PremierLeague club Manchester United and captains the Portugal national team. Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has won five Ballon d’Or awards and four European Golden Shoes, the most by a European player. He has won 32 trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship and one UEFA Nations League. Ronaldo holds the records for most appearances (180), most goals (139) and assists (42) in the Champions League, most goals in the European Championship (14), most international goals by a male player (115), and most international appearances by a European male (182). He is one of the few players to have made over 1,100 professional career appearances, and has scored over 790 official senior career goals for club and country.
List of career achievements by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Over the course of his career, Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has received five Ballon d’Or/FIFA Ballon d’Or awards,the most for a European player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time,Ronaldo holds the record for most goals and assists in the UEFA Champions League (137 and 42 respectively), and the record for most goals in the UEFA European Championship (14), its qualification stage (31), and the FIFA Club World Cup (7), as well as most goals scored in a UEFA Champions League season (17), most international goals (115), and most appearances in a European national team (180). He has scored a record 795 senior career goals for club and country. Moreover, he is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,100 professional career appearances. Collectively, Ronaldo has won 32 senior trophies in his career. He has also attained one title from youth and at least five titles from friendly competitions. All in all he had won over 300 trophies and medals by January 2021, with some of them dating back to his childhood.
Cristiano Ronaldo stepped up for Manchester United once again in midweek against Atalanta. Ronaldo’s brace secured a 2-2 draw away from home and took his tally to five goals in four games. The United forward’s second goal drew high praise from pundit Paul Merson after he scored. Ronaldo is now up to five goals in four games to start this Champions League season. At the age of 36 he has still got it and has a lot more to offer.
- 20/21: Missed first two games due to Covid and then scored four in four.
- 19/20: One goal in his first four group stage matches.
- 18/19: One goal in his first four group stage matches, and one red card.
In the 2017/18 season for Real Madrid he went one better than this, scoring six goals in his first four games.That season he scored an incredible 15 goals in 13 games as Real went on to lift the trophy.Here is a look at more data from Ronaldo’s opening four group games for Real Madrid and through his career.
- 17/18: Six goals in opening four games.
- 16/17: Two goals in first four games.
- 15/16: Five goals in first four games – matching this current run.
- 14/15: Three goals in first four games.
- 13/14: A staggering eight goals in four matches.
- 12/13: Five goals in four games.
- 11/12: Three goals in four games.
- 10/11: One goal in four games.
- 09/10: Six goals in his first four games.
Here is a look at the data from Ronaldo’s previous starts to Champions League campaigns with Manchester United.
- 08/09: 0 goals in first four games.
- 07/08: Four goals in first four games.
- 06/07: Two goals in first four games.
- 05/06: 0 goals in first four games.
- 04/05: Two goals in four games.
- 03/04: 0 goals in four games.
As this shows, Cristiano Ronaldo’s start to the 2021/22 Champions League campaign is his best ever in a Manchester United shirt, bettering the four in four in 2007/08.