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RONALDO

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
PORTUGAL · POR · FORWARD · #7
5 FEB 1985 · Sporting CP · Manchester United · Real Madrid · Juventus · Al-Nassr
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PORTUGAL · #7

🌎 WORLD CUP RECORD

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TITLES
22
MATCHES
8
GOALS
YEARHOSTAPPSGOALSRESULT
2006Germany61 4TH PLACE
2010South Africa41 ROUND OF 16
2014Brazil31 GROUP STAGE
2018Russia44 ROUND OF 16
2022Qatar51 QUARTER-FINAL
█ ATTRIBUTES
PACE 76
SHOOTING 88
PASSING 76
DRIBBLING 80
DEFENDING 34
PHYSICAL 76

⚡ DEFINING MOMENTS

▲ 2006 · A wink in Gelsenkirchen
Twenty-one and barely a year into the Portugal shirt, Ronaldo dispatched a quarter-final penalty to help see off England in a shoot-out, then glanced toward the bench. The wink became the tournament's lasting image; Portugal reached the semi-final and finished fourth.
▲ 2018 · The hat-trick against Spain
In Sochi he scored all three in a 3-3 draw with Spain, completing the set with a curling free-kick two minutes from time. At 33 he became the oldest man to score a World Cup hat-trick, and went on to four goals in the tournament before Uruguay halted Portugal in the last 16.
▲ 2022 · First to score at five editions
His penalty against Ghana made him the first man to find the net at five separate World Cups. It would be his only goal in Qatar; he was named among the substitutes for the knockout rounds and was on the bench as Morocco ended Portugal's run at the quarter-final.

📜 CAREER TIMELINE

2003
Moves from Sporting CP to Manchester United as a teenager.
2006
First World Cup: a penalty against Iran and a fourth-place finish in Germany.
2009
Joins Real Madrid for a then-world-record fee.
2016
Captains Portugal to the European Championship title in France.
2018
Hat-trick against Spain at the World Cup; later signs for Juventus.
2022
Becomes the first man to score at five World Cups, then joins Al-Nassr.
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█ THE ALMANAC SPEAKS
PROF. INKSWORTH:

Five World Cups, eight goals, and not one of them in a knockout match — the great paradox of a career otherwise drowning in records. The almanac files him under relentless rather than crowned: the finals never came, but neither did the surrender.

  • He has scored at five different World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022) — no man had managed that before him.
  • All eight of his World Cup goals arrived in the group stage; the knockout rounds have, so far, kept a clean sheet against him.
  • His 2018 treble against Spain made him, at 33, the oldest scorer of a World Cup hat-trick.
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Zone: Historical