{"id":311168,"date":"2021-02-03T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=311168"},"modified":"2021-02-03T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:07:05","slug":"inter-milan-vs-juventus-cristiano-ronaldo-makes-football-history-after-coppa-italia-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=311168","title":{"rendered":"Inter Milan vs Juventus: Cristiano Ronaldo makes football history after Coppa Italia win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, on Tuesday night, made football history in his side\u2019s Coppa Italia semi-final first leg 2-1 victory over Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo\u2019s brace against Inter Milan gave Andrea Pirlo\u2019s men an edge ahead of the second leg semi-final tie next Tuesday in Turin.<\/p>\n<p>Lautaro Martinez did score a goal for Antonio Conte\u2019s men at San Siro.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo\u2019s two goals against Inter Milan means the Portugal captain now stands alone as football\u2019s most prolific goalscorer, Marca reports.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-866724\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/02\/Inter-Milan-vs-Juventus-Cristiano-Ronaldo-makes-football-history-after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\"><\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester United and Real Madrid star now have 763 career goals, a figure that beats the 762 of Josef Bican and Pele.<\/p>\n<p>Bican and Pele\u2019s records have been disputed, but there\u2019s no confusion over Ronaldo\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo netted 5 goals for Sporting, 118 for Manchester United, 451 for Real Madrid, 87 for Juventus and 102 for Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>However, various sources give Bican up to 805 goals, but Marca has only counted goals in the professional or similar category.<\/p>\n<p>Romario has 740 goals, while Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi has scored 720 goals to make the top five list.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo\u2019s position in the history books is secured according to their records, for now at least.<\/p>\n<p>The Juve number 7 will now hope to continue his impressive display for the Old Lady when they take on Roma this weekend in a Serie A fixture.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, on Tuesday night, made football history in his side\u2019s Coppa Italia semi-final first leg 2-1 victory over Inter Milan. Ronaldo\u2019s brace against Inter Milan gave Andrea Pirlo\u2019s men an edge ahead of the second leg semi-final tie next Tuesday in Turin. Lautaro Martinez did score a goal for Antonio Conte\u2019s men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311169,"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":[16312,2398,4665],"class_list":["post-311168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coppa-italia","tag-messi","tag-ronaldo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311168","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=311168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/311169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}