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After 450 goals for Real Madrid in 438 games, five UEFA Champions League titles, one UEFA Euro title for Portugal, 121 Champions League goals, 573 club goals, 85 goals for Portugal, and 218 assists in his career. 33-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo accepted a new challenge in his illustrious football life: Juventus.
Let's take an exciting look into the feats Ronaldo can achieve in his first year in Italy, which would certainly enhance his numbers and accomplishments.
#3 More goals scored for Juventus in a single season (all competitions)
If Ronaldo is to help the Turin-based squad to reach European glory and retain the Serie A title for the eighth year in a row, his goalscoring ability must be on point, which would not be something new. His numbers for Real Madrid were stunning, in his nine seasons in the Merengues, CR7 averaged 50 goals per season, equalling something like that for Juventus would undoubtedly make them UCL title contenders.
The record for most goals scored for Juventus in a single season in all competitions is 35 goals, established by Hungarian Ferenc Hirzer in the 1925/1926 season.
That number of goals is at Ronaldo's feet for the next season. The Portuguese have surpassed that amount in nine of his last twelve seasons.
However, scoring more than 30 goals for Juventus is a tough challenge. Only ten players have reached that mark in the club's history, and just two of those (David Trezeguet in 2001/02, and Gonzalo Higuaín in 2016/17) did it in the 21st century. Ronaldo would need 36 goals to become Juventus' record-holder in that aspect.
#2 700 career goals
Cristiano Ronaldo is known for being one of the most prolific players and goalscorers of all time, arguably the best. The Portuguese virtuoso is currently the greatest goalscorer concerning players still in action with a stunning 658 goals.
For his first season at Juventus, and if he continues his international career for Portugal, Ronaldo can achieve the unbelievable number of 700 official senior career goals.
CR7 would need to score 42 goals, a tally he has surpassed nine times in his career, to reach that amount.
Cristiano would become only the second player in the last 35 years to reach the 700-goal mark, with Brazilian Romário da Souza being the only other. Also, the Portuguese megastar would be the sixth player to reach that mark, but he would do it in his prime, which isn't the norm.
#1 UCL title with the third different club
In measuring Cristiano Ronaldo's success at Juventus, the collective achievements of the Turin-based squad, uniquely and exclusively the UEFA Champions League, a competition Ronaldo owns in his career, whether it was with Manchester United or Real Madrid, will take the more significant part.
The UEFA Champions League in the 2018/19 season represents a big challenge for Cristiano and his new club. Juventus have not won the UCL since 1996 and has lost its last five finals in a row, one at the hands of Ronaldo's Real Madrid in 2017.
CR7 is the right man for the job since he is the only player in the Champions League era to win the competition five times (second all time, behind Gento's six European Cup titl with Real Madrid in the 60s).
Winning the UCL with Juve in 2019 at Wand Metropolitano, in Madrid, would make Ronaldo only the second player ever (European Cup or Champions League) to win the crown with three different teams (Dutch Clarence Seedorf did it four times with three clubs, Ajax, Real Madrid, and AC Milan).
Also, Ronaldo would be the fifth player to win UCL championships in consecutive years and with different clubs, after Marcel Desailly (Marseille in 1993 and AC Milan in 1994), Paulo Sousa (Juventus in 1996 and Borussia Dortmund in 1997), Gerard Piqué (Manchester United in 2008 and Barcelona in 2009), and Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona in 2009 and Internazionale in 2010).
