Cristiano Ronaldo creates history, scores record 100th international goal

 

A stunning double on the part of Cristiano Ronaldo this evening saw the Juventus superstar reach a remarkable international goalscoring milestone, as he continues to close on the all-time record.

Sweden downed

Ronaldo’s Portugal returned to Nations League action a short time ago, in a meeting with Sweden.

Fernando Santos’ men got their Group campaign off to the perfect start over the weekend, with a 4-1 downing of Croatia.

Making their victory even more impressive, meanwhile, was the fact that it came with captain and leader Ronaldo having missed out through injury.

The 35-year-old returned to action this evening, though, and to say that he made his impact felt would be putting it lightly.

Ronaldo notched both of his side’s goals versus Sweden, as Portugal ran out 2-0 winners.

The first came courtesy of a wonderful free-kick:

Cristiano climbing

As outlined above, though, Ronaldo’s brace did not just prove significant on a collective level for Portugal, but also on an individual level for the attacker himself.

In netting his first versus Sweden, Ronaldo took his international goalscoring tally to 100, making the former Real Madrid man the first European player to ever reach the century mark for his country:

The veteran’s 2nd, meanwhile, took him to within 8 goals of the all-time leading international goalscorer, Ali Daei, who found the back of the net 109 times for Iran.