Thursday, October 29, 2026

Ronaldo hits 700 club goals ahead of Messi

Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal for Manchester United against Everton on Sunday in the Premier League marked his 700th club goal, a feat that marks him apart on the scale of football excellence

• October 9, 2022
Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal for Manchester United against Everton on Sunday in the Premier League marked his 700th club goal, a feat that marks him apart on the scale of football excellence.

The 37-year-old, who came in midway through the first half for injured Anthony Martial hit a powerful shot past Everton’s goalie Pickford to net his 144th goal in Red Devil’s shirt.

Ronaldo’s superb career that has spanned over 20 years has seen him scored tons of goals across the club’s in his native Portugal, England, Spain and Italy.

CR7 scored five for Sporting Lisbon. In two spells for United, he has scored 144 goals. In his 9 years at Real Madrid, he scored over 400 goals, while he scored 101 goals for Italian side Juventus.

With Sunday’s goal, the Portuguese is now 10 goal ahead rival Lionel Messi, beating the Argentine to 700 landmark club goal.

We have recently deactivated our website's comment provider in favour of other channels of distribution and commentary. We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages.

More from Peoples Gazette

Nigerian Bar Association

States

Independence: NBA urges Nigerians to expect better future

The NBA said that ordinary Nigerians should be deriving benefit from the subsidy removal rather than hardship.

farmers

Agriculture

FG tasks ECOWAS on leveraging financing strategies for agroecology

The federal government has urged stakeholders in the agriculture and finance sectors in the West Africa region to leverage financing strategies to enhance agroecology practices

Katsina State

Politics

Katsina youths pledge to deliver over 2 million votes to Atiku

“Katsina State is Atiku’s political base because it is his second home.”

Warredi Enisuoh at the event

NationWide

Tantita acquires more drones, AI systems to curb pipeline vandalism, crude oil theft in Nigeria

Mr Enisuoh lamented the alarming rate of oil theft, pipeline vandalism and other illegal maritime activities

An overloaded bus used to illustrate the story

Heading 5

FRSC threatens punishment for overloading, mixed loading

Mr Mohammed said the corps would continue to enforce applicable regulations.

INEC Photo (Credit: Punch Newspapers)

Heading 5

Institute urges INEC to address logistics gaps ahead of 2027 elections

Mr Emeje said Nigeria was underutilising the courier, logistics, transport and management sub-sector.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Diaspora

Canadian police declare Nigerian Mayowa Adekunle Babalola wanted for fraud

The police asked the public to report sightings and information on the whereabouts of Mr Babalola, 36, following a months-long fraud investigation.