Cristiano Ronaldo reaches 53 goals and is close to being the top scorer in 2023

Cristiano Ronaldo is 38 years old. He is not a lesser number because he just scored his 53rd goal in the calendar year and he is currently the world's leading scorer. He scored two penalty goals in Al Nassr FC's 2-5 away win over Al Ittihad in the Saudi League.

Cristiano thus surpasses Harry Kane (52 goals), Kylian Mbappé (52) and Erling Haaland (5th). Only Haaland could now surpass Cristiano Ronaldo, because in the remaining five days of the year he is still in competition: he can play two more games, although he has missed Manchester City's last five games due to injury. Mbappé and Kane will no longer play in 2023. Cristiano has one game left, on December 30.

That CR7 now plays in a less competitive league? It's not Europe, it's true. But only in today's match did he have the previous Ballon d'Or winner, Karim Benzema, the world champion with France N'Golo Kanté and figures like Fabinho. And on his team is Sadio Mané, former Liverpoool and current champion with Senegal of the African Cup of Nations, who was also the most outstanding player in the match this Tuesday. Furthermore, Cristiano is still active in national team football and was decisive in Portugal winning all their matches in qualifying for Euro 2024.

That Cristiano only scores via penalty? In the current Saudi league season he has 19 goals and only 6 of them have been penalties. He is the top scorer in that league. As if that were not enough, Cristiano Ronaldo set four new records this year, according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) player who has scored in the most editions of the Euro Cup, Player with the most victories in the round of Eurocup classification, national team player with the most appearances, and highest scorer in the national league.

Cristiano Ronaldo's background

It is the eighth time in his career that Cristiano has scored at least 50 goals in a calendar year. Cristiano Ronaldo is also the top scorer in history, with 872 official goals. He has less than two months left until his 39th birthday. Having already left the European elite and without raising a World Cup like Lionel Messi, the best in history, Cristiano Ronaldo is the best scorer of all time and shows that he is perhaps, until now, the best long-player that has ever been played. seen.