Criticising Europe's most potent finisher for winning 206 caps is laughable. This is especially the case when you consider that there has never been another player to reach a double century in football history.
Arguably the greatest marksman to ever play the game, Ronaldo has an astonishing 128 goals for his country, having scored in his teens, his twenties and his thirties.
He left Europe having scored 140 goals in the Champions League, more than the likes of Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski. Kylian Mbappe is currently the biggest threat to this crown given how much of his career is left to pan out, but even the French superstar still has 92 goals left to just tie with his idol.
Cementing his legacy as one of the greatest of all time, the goalscoring machine left Madrid almost a decade later having scored 450 times in just 438 appearances.
Ronaldo’s first Euro came in 2004 but ended in heartbreak. Underdogs Greece shocked the host nation to cause an unlikely upset in the final. Fast forward 12 years, and this time it was Ronaldo's turn to be the underdog.
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