40 WINKS

Happy birthday Ron - even though we'll never forgive you for this!

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CRISTIANO RONALDO is 40 today but there is probably another number focusing the mind of the Portugal star on his milestone birthday. That magic number is 77 -the amount of goals Ronaldo needs for 1,000 in a stellar career that began way back on August 14, 2002. It was once acknowledged Brazil pair Pele and Romario scored over 1,000 goals during their careers, yet those figures were eventually rounded down to 757 and 772 respectively with friendlies and other fixtures taken into account. The great Austria and Czechoslovakia striker Josef Bican reportedly scored close to 1,500 goals between 1931 and 1957, but only 805 of those were recognised by FIFA.

PORTUGAL

HE'S best known to us as the 'winker' who got Wayne Rooney sent off at the 2006 World Cup.

But his international career has been pretty special, to be fair. He has the most goals in men's international football with 135, passing Iranian Ali Daei's record of 108 in June 2021.