Euro 2024 record-breaking: the statistic that crushes Cristiano Ronaldo

A deeply bitter last time.

Cristiano Ronaldo says goodbye to Euro 2024 with unprecedented numbers for his career, but this time in a negative way. After rewriting soccer history for more than two decades, the German expedition dramatically brought CR7, never really decisive for his Portugal, back to earth. So much so that he left the archives with a statistic unheard of in his entire career at the end of his last European Championship.

From Euro 2004 to the ill-fated match against France, Cristiano Ronaldo had played for Portugal no less than 11 summer tournaments between European Championships and World Cups (worth mentioning Euro 2016, when the Lusitanians became European champions). Well: in each of these tournaments he had netted at least one goal, with the exception of just one Euro 2024 in which he never è seemed really comfortable.

It is fair to point out, moreover, that his streak had not stopped only at Euro 2024. In the last 9 appearances between World Cups and European Championships, in fact, Cristiano Ronaldo never scored a goal. In the 9 that had preceded them, on the contrary, as many as 10 had come. Further proof of CR7's impact over the course of his illustrious career, and the decline he has been going through in recent years.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s numbers with Portugal, however, remain eye-popping. The Madeiran champion è tops in both appearances and goals to his credit, having stamped the scoreboard no less than 130 times over 212 games. His last goals in a Lusitanian shirt at the moment remain the two scored in the 3-0 win over Ireland last June 11. But then it was a friendly.