23/03/2023
Cristiano Ronaldo broke the world record for games with a national team, with 197, this Thursday in Lisbon when he jumped into the starting eleven as captain of Portugal in the qualifying match for the euro 2024 frente a Liechtenstein.
The 38-year-old striker, now at the Saudi club Al-Nasr played his 197th international game and thus surpasses Kuwaiti Badr Al-Mutawa, with whom he shared the record.
In almost 20 years of international career, the captain of the Portuguese team has played once morest 70 different countries and has appeared in all the Euro Cups and World Cups -five and five- since the continental championship that his country organized in 2004.
As leader and captain, he won the first two trophies for Portugal, the 2016 Euro Cup and the 2019 League of Nations.
The five-time Ballon d’Or also holds the record for goals in a national team since September 1, 2021 when he scored twice once morest Ireland and surpassed Iran Ali Daei and his 109 goals. Now CR7 adds 118.
Portugal began a new stage with the Spanish Roberto Martínez on the bench, replacing Fernando Santos, fired following the World Cup in Qatar in which the Portuguese team was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Morocco (1-0), a tournament that CR7 ended as substitute and confronted with the technician.
