Over the past few decades, the two biggest players in the world, Ronaldo and Messi, have competed over various records. But Cristiano Ronaldo has a statistic that makes Messi hopeless. Since 2000, Ronaldo has scored 110 headers and is the world's king of all titles!
Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United this season and still maintained excellent form. He scored his 800th career goal and overtook Ali Dei to become the national team goalscorer. Early in his career, Cristiano Ronaldo was a standard winger, and he later became a center forward. But in any case, C Luo is by no means the kind of high school striker who stands on the pile in people's minds. But who would have thought that C Luo was actually the active head of world football!
Statistics from PopFoot show that since 2000, Ronaldo has scored 110 headers in all competitions, the most headers in world football, 32 more than the 2nd place! In second place is Barca centre-forward Luc De Jong, who scored 78 headers. "World Striker" Levan was third with 77 headers. Llorente and Falcao also finished 4th and 5th respectively.
What impressed people was a header scored by Cristiano Ronaldo against Sampdoria during his 2019 spell with Juventus, when his starting height reached 2.56 meters, even exceeding the height of the crossbar. Ranieri, then manager of Sampdoria, described it this way: "Ronaldo did something that can only be seen in the NBA, he seemed to stay in the air for an hour and a half! ”
For Messi, this data really can't catch up with C Ronaldo, after all, there is a gap in height. And how many headers will Ronaldo score in the future? The record is still waiting for him to continue to be refreshed. Behind C Ronaldo, who will be the next "future ball king" who is so comprehensive? Whether it is Mbappe or Haaland, if you want to reach the height of Ronaldo in the future, I am afraid that you will need to make extremely hard efforts.