Cristiano Ronaldo retires with 11 World Cup goals across six tournaments
Cristiano Ronaldo ends his Portugal career with 146 goals in 234 caps, having scored 11 times at World Cups across six tournaments since 2006.
Cristiano Ronaldo has retired from international football, closing a Portugal career in which he scored 146 goals and won 234 caps. The wide-ranging figures were included in coverage marking the end of his time with the national team.
World Cup scoring formed one strand of that record. Ronaldo found the net 11 times at World Cup finals, spread across six tournaments beginning with the 2006 edition, according to the same retrospective. That total places his international tournament scoring alongside his broader body of work for Portugal.
The source material provides only the headline numbers of his international career — the goal and cap totals and the World Cup breakdown — and does not detail individual matches, opponents or dates for the 11 goals. A separate linked item, flagged as available to UK users only, covered the retirement announcement itself.
The retirement ends an international span that began before his first World Cup appearance in 2006 and continued through six editions of the tournament. For Portugal, the task now turns to life without a player whose goal record at international level is measured in the hundreds of appearances and more than a century of goals.
Reaction in the supplied material was limited: the coverage frames Ronaldo's World Cup record as the centrepiece of a legacy retrospective rather than offering fresh comment from the player, his coaches or supporters. Any assessment of his tournament tally therefore rests on the figures reported rather than on quotes.
