{"id":498611,"date":"2025-10-15T03:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=498611"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:11:41","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-achieves-another-milestone-at-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-achieves-another-milestone-at-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo achieves another Milestone at the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in his nation\u2019s 2-2 draw against Hungary today, securing another record in his legendary career.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese forward, who is 40 years old, is now the all-time leading goalscorer in the World Cup Qualifiers. The 5-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner has scored 41 times during the qualifiers for the World Championship, as nobody has netted more than him.<\/p>\n<p>Selecao conceded the 1st goal vs. Hungary at home, but Cristiano tied the result only 14 minutes later, and he did so once more before the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half. However, they failed to win the match as Dominik Szoboszlai scored late for the 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Before today\u2019s game for his nation, Cristiano Ronaldo had the same number of goals as Carlos Ruiz from Guatemala, but now the ex-Real Madrid superstar is alone at the top, 2 goals ahead. He is also with 5 more goals than his biggest competitor as the best footballer in the last decade, as Leo Messi is 3rd in those standings with 36 goals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd1d\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9 Cristiano Ronaldo: The all-time top goalscorer in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> qualifying history!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAre26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WeAre26<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jyOXaGlU7C\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jyOXaGlU7C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1978177492402700702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cristiano had the chance to break the record a few days ago when he had the chance to do it from a penalty, but missed it. However, Portugal won that match with a late goal, and that didn\u2019t affect him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in his nation\u2019s 2-2 draw against Hungary today, securing another record in his legendary career. The Portuguese forward, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904,17054],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17961,18409],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Portuguese superstar has another legendary Milestone.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/498611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/498611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498613,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/498611\/revisions\/498613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498611"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=498611"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=498611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}