Cristiano Ronaldo has reentered football history. The Portuguese striker is the only player in history to have played 5 Euro Cups. The Portuguese has participated in all of them since his country organized the 2004 tournament. His double against Hungary has also earned him the top scorer in the history of this prestigious tournament.
Portugal made their European debut against Hungary in Budapest and, obviously, Cristiano Ronaldo was a starter with the team led by Fernando Santos . The ‘7’ wore the captain’s armband and once the ball rolled, he once again broke a mark, becoming the only footballer who has been in 5 European Cups .
Cristiano Ronaldo was summoned for the first time to participate in a European Championship in 2004. In that appointment he played in six games, including the victory of Portugal against Spain that left out those of Iñaki Sáez and also had his minutes in the final in which his country, the host, ended up being defeated against Greece.
Subsequently, already consolidated as a world star, he was present at the Austria and Switzerland held in 2008, where Spain achieved the second title in its history and a tournament in which Cristiano Ronaldo only played three games. In 2012, in Poland and Ukraine , Spain repeated the title and the Portuguese signed his third European Championship , where this time the former Real Madrid player played 5 games.
His fourth attendance at a European Championship was in the last, in the one held in France . On this occasion Cristiano Ronaldo played seven games and was proclaimed champion of the tournament with his team, thus fulfilling a dream and a challenge that he had always pursued.
Now he is playing his fifth European Championship as current champion and with the challenge of continuing to expand his history with the Portugal team . He will seek to revalidate the title in a tournament in which he has managed to score 9 goals in the other four editions in which he has participated.
On the other hand, the hunger that Cristiano Ronaldo has always shown has led him to surpass Andrés Iniesta as the footballer with the most victories in a final phase of the European Championship with 12 wins thanks to the 0-3 against Hungary.
In addition, if that were not enough, thanks to his double he becomes the top scorer in the history of the European Championships with 11 goals. He came to this tournament tied with Platini , but the two goals with which he destroyed Hungary allow him to seize that milestone that, a priori, it seems he will possess for a long time.
