<b>With his goal against Sassuolo on Sunday, Cristiano Ronaldo has reached 760 career goals, with just two separating him from Josef Bican's all-time record.</b><br><br>The Portuguese forward scored five in 35 games at Sporting CP, 118 in 292 duels at Manchester United and 451 in 438 for Real Madrid.<br><br>At Juventus, Ronaldo has already scored 84 times in 106 encounters, also mustering 102 goals in 170 caps for the Portuguese national team.<br><br><b>Only Bican has more</b><br><br>If Ronaldo scores another two goals, he will break Bican's record (762) and become the all-time top scorer.<br><br>Various sources, including the Rec Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF), note that Bican has scored a total of 805 times, yet MARCA only count goals scored in professional football.<br><br>Hence, we do not take into account the 24 goals he netted for Rapid Vienna's reserves or other regional sides.<br><br>Bican's 762 goals are distributed as follows: Rapid Amateur (3), Rapid Vienna (68), Admira Vienna (21), Slavia Prague (534), Vitkovice (74), Hradec Kralove (11), Dynamo Prague (22), Austria (14), Czechoslovakia (12) and Bohemia and Moravia (3).<br><br><b>Pele stopped at 757 and Romario at 740</b><br><br>Ronaldo has already overtaken the legendary Pele, who scored 757 goals, including 643 with Santos, 77 with Brazil and 37 with New York Cosmos.<br><br>Some give Pele 644 Santos goals, but there is one that most consider to have been a Sao Bento own goal.<br><br>Meanwhile, Romario boasted of having reached 1,000 goals at the age of 41 in 2007, but he has scored a total of 740 official goals.<br><br><b>Messi threatens Bican... and Ronaldo</b><br><br>The Barcelona captain has just overtaken Pele as the top scorer in the history of a single club and has registered a total of 718 goals in his career.<br><br>Messi is expected to overtake Bican too and then focus on another dispute with Ronaldo, this time for the player who will become the greatest scorer in history.<br><br><b>Unstoppable Ronaldo is about to turn 36</b><br><br>Aged 35 and ready to turn 36 on February 5, Ronaldo averages more than one goal per Serie A game this season, having played 13 matches and scored 15 times.<br><br>He is the league's top scorer followed by Romelu Lukaku (12), Ciro Immobile (11), Joao Pedro, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luis Muriel (10).<br><br>Ronaldo didn't manage to be crowned Capocannoniere in neither of his first two seasons at the Old Lady.<br><br>However, he was top scorer once in the Premier League in 2007/08 and three times in LaLiga Santander in 2010/11, 2013/14 and 2014/15.<br><br>In addition, Ronaldo was named Champions League's top scorer on seven occasions - more than any other footballer - in 2007/08, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18.<br><br><b>Chasing Ali Daei</b><br><br>If Ronaldo beats Bican's record, one of the few left to break will be that of the top scorer in the history of the national teams.<br><br>Ali Daei holds the record with a total of 109 goals and the Juventus forward needs just seven to match it.<br><br>Source: <a href="https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2021/01/11/5ffc729de2704e2dad8b459e.html">https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2021/01/11/5ffc729de2704e2dad8b459e.html</a>
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