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Cristiano Ronaldo reaches 100 goals with the Portugal shirt | News

New milestone for Cristiano Ronaldo, this time with the Portugal: the Juventus striker reached i 100 international goals with the national team thanks to the beautiful free-kick of 1-0, scored against Sweden in the Nations League. CR7 thus becomes the first European footballer to go in triple figures with their national team and aim for the absolute record of Ali Daei, 109 goals with the shirt of Iran.

That of Ronaldo and Portugal is a story that began over 17 years ago: it was the August 20, 2003 when CR7 did the debut with the Lusitanians, entered the second half against Kazakhstan in a friendly. The first goal was then reached at the 2004 European Championships, against Greece, while 12 years after the great triumph at the European Championships with the victory in the final against France.

The Juventus striker, 15 goals in his last nine games with Portugal, is now chasing Ali Daei and has further detached Ferenc Puskas (84 goals with Hungary) in the ranking of players with the most goals scored with the national team.

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