Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo completed the 2020-21 campaign as Serie A’s top scorer to become the only player to accomplish the accomplishment in the Premier League, La Liga and Italy’s top flight.
The 36-year-old scored 29 goals as the Bianconeri completed the season in fourth place. Inter Milan won the Serie A title, finishing Juve’s nine-year dominance.
In Ronaldo’s third season in Italy, he has dominated the Capocannoniere race for the first time subsequent to having scored 21 of every 2018-19, which was five behind Fabio Quagliarella, and 31 the following campaign to trail inevitable European Golden Shoe champ Ciro Immobile by a similar amount.
Altogether, he has scored 81 Serie A goals in 97 appearances and 101 in total from 133 games. Ronaldo won consecutive Serie A Footballer of the Year awards in 2019 and 2020.
Ronaldo was the Premier League’s top goal scorer in 2007-08 while at Manchester United with 31 goals, which assisted him with winning his first Ballon d’Or later that year. He scored 42 in all competitions as United won the league and Ronaldo’s first Champions League.
Altogether, he scored 118 goals in 292 appearances for United prior to leaving to join Real Madrid in 2009. While in England, he twice won the Players’ Player of the Year and Football Writers awards in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Ronaldo won the Pichichi prize for La Liga’s top scorer on three events, with the main coming in the 2010-11 season, when he scored 40 goals as Madrid completed second to Barcelona, however won the Copa del Rey – his first trophy in Spain.
He was top scorer again in 2013-14 as he scored 31 times. That season, he won both the Champions League and Ballon d’Or award for the second time in his career. It was likewise the only time he was named La Liga Best Player.
In the accompanying effort, he again won the Pichichi subsequent to scoring 48 goals, however missed on the Ballon d’Or as Lionel Messi helped Barca to a La Liga, Copa and Champions League treble.
Ronaldo left Madrid for Juventus in 2018 as Los Blancos’ all-time leading scorer with 450 goals in 438 appearances. In La Liga, he got 311 times in only 292 games. He likewise won the Champions League four times with Madrid.
The Portugal international is likewise the top scorer in Champions League history with 134 goals. He has likewise been the leading scorer in seven different editions – more than some other player.
Ronaldo has won the European Golden Shoe on four events (the last coming in 2014-15), which is second just to Messi, who has six.
