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Cristiano Ronaldo (Reuters)
Cristiano Ronaldo bid farewell to Euro 2024 without goals, and for the first time in his senior career did not find the back of the net in a major tournament following doing so in each of the previous 10 tournaments (Euros and World Cup). He finished the European Championship with 23 shots on goal, the most ever without scoring.
After becoming the first player to appear in six different European Championship tournaments in the first match of the tournament once morest the Czech Republic, Ronaldo hoped to score in the European Championship, a tournament in which he played for the first time in 2004 and since then he has scored in every international tournament in which he has played. The striker has not scored in the World Cup and Euro except from the penalty spot for 956 minutes, 12 games and 42 attempts at the goal.
CR7 can take solace in the fact that he is still the all-time Euro goalscorer with 14, placing him first in the tournament’s all-time top scorers. Who is in second place is the French Michel Platini, with nine, which illustrates the greatness of the Portuguese.
Ronaldo doesn’t believe (Reuters)
Cristiano Ronaldo played in 11 major tournaments throughout his career. In each of the previous 10 (Euro and World Cup) he found the net in the group stage, and this time he failed to do so, something that has never happened to him before. His record in knockouts in major tournaments stands at 21 games and three goals (a goal every 7 knockout games).
In addition to the fact that Ronaldo is the only one to participate in the Euros six times, he also counts the most victories, goals and assists in the tournament, and even the most man of the match titles (6 together with Andres Iniesta). CR7 is also the player who scored the most doubles in the Euros (4), and the player with the most appearances in the finals (2 together with 23 other players), and at least he can take solace in that.
Ronaldo has 22 goals in 2024, and he closed 2023/24 with 57 goals for the team and the national team. The Portuguese scored 130 goals in the national uniform and 895 goals in his career. Ronaldo also scored 36 goals for Portugal, seven at the Euros throughout history and nine at major tournaments, and has 252 career goals.