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Cristiano Ronaldo's 400-goal challenge

4 months ago  Raphael   Sport News

As people across the globe come up with their New Year's resolutions, Cristiano Ronaldo has a challenge of his own for 2017: to reach 400 Real Madrid goals.
Having already netted 381 times for Los Blancos since his 2009 arrival, the 31-year-old is on course to reach that milestone in the next few months, especially if he keeps up his average of 1.04 goals per match.
The club's previous record goalscorer Raul has already seen his tally of 323 goals smashed and the Portuguese may even be able to break the world record for goals with one club by the time he leaves the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu.
Pele wrote his name on the Santos scoresheet a phenomenal 647 times, but Ronaldo should be able to come close to that figure given that he has signed a new contract with Los Blancos that runs until 2021.
After scoring 33 times in his first campaign with the capital city club, the No.7 has not finished a season with fewer than 51 goals to his name and he already has 16 goals in all competitions in 2016/17.
His astonishing goalscoring feats have seen him accumulate three Pichichi awards, four Golden Shoes and four consecutive seasons as the Champions League's highest scorer, making him the competition's all-time leader.
By breaking the 400-goal mark with one club, Ronaldo would follow in the footsteps of Zico (401 goals with Flamengo), Josef Bican (401, Slavia Prague), Uwe Seler (416, Hamburg), Eusebio (473, Benfica), Lionel Messi (475, Barcelona), Jimmy McGrory (522, Celtic), Gerd Mueller (542, Bayern Munich) and the aforementioned Pele.