{"id":160418,"date":"2019-10-15T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T09:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160418"},"modified":"2019-10-15T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T09:13:47","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-scores-700th-career-goal-sport-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160418","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo scores 700th career goal | Sport News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/What-Ronaldo-said-after-scoring-four-times-against-Lithuania-to-hit-93-international-goals.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, reached 700 career goals in official matches, during their 2-1 loss to Ukraine in a Euro 2020 qualifier on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner converted a penalty in the 72nd minute, after a Ukraine player was judged to have handled a long-range shot in the box.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo is the sixth player to achieve the feat, following ex-Germany striker Gerd Muller, Hungary legend Ferenc Puskas, Brazil\u2019s Pele and Romario and the Czech Republic\u2019s Josef Bican.<\/p>\n<p>The only other active player close to breaching the 700-goal mark, is Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi, who has 672.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, 34, made his international debut at the age of 18 in a 1-0 victory over Kazakhstan on August 20, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>He scored his first goal in the opening match of Euro 2004, which Portugal lost 2-1 to eventual winners Greece.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, reached 700 career goals in official matches, during their 2-1 loss to Ukraine in a Euro 2020 qualifier on Monday. The five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner converted a penalty in the 72nd minute, after a Ukraine player was judged to have handled a long-range shot in the box. Ronaldo is the sixth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4679,462],"class_list":["post-160418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christiano-ronaldo","tag-portugal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}