{"id":30770,"date":"2019-10-15T14:17:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/?p=30770"},"modified":"2019-10-15T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:17:25","slug":"i-dont-look-for-records-they-look-for-me-%e2%80%95ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/i-dont-look-for-records-they-look-for-me-%e2%80%95ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t look for records, they look for me \u2015Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cristiano Ronaldo has lost count of the number of records he has broken, Portugal forward said after scoring the 700th goal of his career during a 2-1 defeat to Ukraine on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe records come naturally, I don\u2019t look for them, the records look for me,\u201d he told reporters after scoring his 95th goal for his country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts not for anyone to reach this number and I thank everyone, team mates, colleagues, coaches and everyone who helped Cristiano become the player that he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Ronaldo said that the defeat to Ukraine in a Euro 2020 qualifier took some of the shine off the achievement.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ:\u00a0 <\/strong>Cristiano reaches<\/strong> new milestone: 700 career goals<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIts a nice moment in my career but there was a bitter taste because we didn\u2019t win.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played well, but we didn\u2019t win. We did everything we could and we had plenty of chances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ronaldo is the all time leading scorer in the Champions League with 127 goals, holds the record for the most goals in a single Champions League season, is Real Madrid\u2019s all time highest scorer and Portugal\u2019s most capped player and record scorer.<\/p>\n

The first five goals of Ronaldo\u2019s career were scored for Portugal\u2019s Sporting between 2002 and 2003.<\/p>\n

He then scored 118 goals in 232 appearances during six seasons with Manchester United and remarkably averaged more than a goal a game for Real Madrid, scoring 450 in 438 appearances over the course of nine seasons.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: <\/strong>Georgina Rodriguez sweeter than my best goal \u2015Ronaldo<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

In just over one season with his current club Juventus, he notched a further 32 goals in 51 matches.<\/p>\n

In spite of the defeat, Portugal remained second in Group G with 11 points from six games, one ahead of Serbia, and will qualify for Euro 2020 if they win their remaining matches at home to Lithuania and away to Luxemburg.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played too much with our hearts and not enough with our heads,\u201d said Coach Fernando Santos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cristiano Ronaldo has lost count of the number of records he has broken, Portugal forward said after scoring the 700th goal of his career during a 2-1 defeat to Ukraine on Monday. \u201cThe records come naturally, I don\u2019t look for them, the records look for me,\u201d he told reporters after scoring his 95th goal for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":30771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[461,4607,51,4702],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Ronaldo-700.jpg?fit=450%2C351&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd18y-80i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}