{"id":10836,"date":"2019-10-15T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:39:24","slug":"ronaldo-scores-landmark-700th-career-goal-in-portugal-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10836","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Scores Landmark 700th Career Goal in Portugal Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Cristiano Ronaldo reached a career landmark on Monday by scoring his 700th career goal in Portugal&#8217;s Euro 2020 qualifier at Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old scored a penalty as Portugal lost 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>His 700 goals so far have come from 973 matches &#8211; and he has scored at least once in 458 of those.<\/p>\n<p>His goal in the 2-1 loss to Ukraine was also his 95th for Portugal, leaving only Iranian Ali Daei in front in the international charts on 109 goals.<\/p>\n<p>The win for Ukraine, meanwhile, means they have qualified for Euro 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo&#8217;s goal means he joins an elite group of players to have hit at least 700 goals in their career.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from\u00a0 \u00a0Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation,\u00a0 Juventus forward Ronaldo is still some way behind the most prolific player of all time, with Czech-Austrian Josef Bican scoring 805 career goals.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list is Brazil legend Romario, who bagged 772, while his compatriot Pele is third on 767.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo reached a career landmark on Monday by scoring his 700th career goal in Portugal&#8217;s Euro 2020 qualifier at Ukraine. The 34-year-old scored a penalty as Portugal lost 2-1. His 700 goals so far have come from 973 matches &#8211; and he has scored at least once in 458 of those. His goal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10838,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions\/10838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}