{"id":514029,"date":"2026-06-23T15:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=514029"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:14:21","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-becomes-first-to-score-at-6-wcs-as-portugal-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-becomes-first-to-score-at-6-wcs-as-portugal-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first to score at 6 WCs as Portugal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has become the 1<sup>st<\/sup> footballer to score a goal at 6 different World Cup championships as Portugal trash Uzbekistan 5-0 as Cristiano scored twice for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese superstar, who is 41 years old, had gone 10 matches without a goal in major championships \u2013 including Euro championships \u2013 after failing to score against Congo, but did it today only after 6 minutes vs. Uzbekistan as he netted the opening goal in the match. Cristiano scored again before the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half to make it 3-0 for his nation in the 39<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>The goals meant that Cristiano is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> footballer to score in 6 different World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026).<\/p>\n<p>The 5-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner is also the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-oldest scorer in the World Cup history (41 years, 138 days), behind Roger Milla in 1994 for Cameroon vs. Russia (42 years, 39 days).<\/p>\n<p>His goals came after Ronaldo was criticized for failing to score in his team\u2019s 1-1 draw vs. Congo in Portugal\u2019s opening game, but now the experienced player showed that he can still score at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>He and Leo Messi became the only players in history to appear in 6 World Cup tournaments until now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">History for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Cristiano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@Cristiano<\/a>! \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first player to score in six different <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAWorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@FIFAWorldCup<\/a> tournaments! \u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qI1Zvt0uJS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qI1Zvt0uJS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA (@FIFAcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAcom\/status\/2069467663416381699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has become the 1st footballer to score a goal at 6 different World Cup championships as Portugal trash Uzbekistan 5-0 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":514030,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904,16724],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17961,21743],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Portuguese legend with another record to his name.","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\/514029"}],"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=514029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514032,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514029\/revisions\/514032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514029"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=514029"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=514029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}