At 41 years and 138 days old, Cristiano Ronaldo is still doing things no one else has done. His two-goal performance against Uzbekistan on June 23, 2026, pushed his World Cup career total to 10 goals, breaking a Portuguese national record that Eusébio had held since 1966. That is not a typo. Sixty years.
The match ended 5-0 in Portugal’s favor, and Ronaldo’s brace served as his introduction to the 2026 World Cup.
What actually happened, and why the numbers matter
Eusébio scored nine World Cup goals, all of them at the 1966 tournament in England, where Portugal finished third. That record survived twelve World Cups, multiple generations of Portuguese football, and the entire careers of Luis Figo, Rui Costa, and everyone else who came after him.
His career World Cup goal tally now sits at 10, accumulated across appearances from 2006 through 2026. No other player in World Cup history has scored in six consecutive tournaments.
