Christiano scored his 759th career goal against Sassuolo. He also tied with Josef Bican at the top of the table of all time. Ronaldo becomes the best striker, while Pelé has scored 757 official goals and Messi is only in fifth place.

Josef Bican’s name may not be the best known to the general football public, but these days everyone will hear about him. Because Ronaldo equaled the record of the former national team player of Austria and Czechoslovakia. On Sunday Ronaldo succeeded to climb to the top with the number of goals in official matches for the club and the national team.

They both now have 759, but it is a matter of days when Ronaldo will break out on top alone. Of those 759, he scored 133 from the penalty spot. The Portuguese scored the important points during the referee’s compensation for the victory over Sassuolo (3-1) in Turin. With a help of Ronaldo, the “old lady” is catching up to the top of Serie A.

Milan is now seven points ahead, Inter four, Roma one. But Juve has a game less. If you’ve wondered where Pelé and Messi are in these records, the answer is a few steps below.

Ronaldo overtook the Brazilian on the third day of 2021, scoring two goals for Udinese. the Argentinean is only in fifth place with 719 goals. Among them is the legendary Romário (54) with 743 goals.

If you ask Pelé, of course, he will tell you that he is the best football scorer in history. But as many as 526 of the 1283 goals he is proud of he scored in unofficial matches, among which are – matches in the army.

Officially, he scored 757 goals. Ronaldo will not have such doubts in the statistics. Although it’s always good to have one more good argument in the debate about who is the best football player. Of course, if Messi, two years younger, doesn’t reach him in the meantime. But for now, Ronaldo became the best striker in the history of football.