7 minutes agoRonaldo's wearing a fan, unlike his fellow players in the match against Congo.
Periskopi(an hour ago)
(an hour ago)Cristiano Ronaldo has joined Lionel Messi and a very limited list of players holding a special World Cup emblem, given to celebrate a historic achievement.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Messi secured a dream start for Argentina at the 2026 World Cup, marking a hat-trick in the opening match against Algeria. With that, 38-year-old reached a new record and was equated with Miroslav Klose as the best goalist in World Cup history.
At the same time, he switched Ronaldo to another statistic: like the oldest player to have scored hat-trick at the World Cup, after Portuguese had done so against Spain in 2018 at the age of 33.
This has made Ronaldo's appearance more attentive in Portugal's match against DR Congo in Houston, where he is expected to wear a slightly different fanella from his teammates.
Portugal star holds the so-called “FIFA World Cup Legacy patch”, a special emblem given to players who have managed to play in five or more Cup Worlde.
Ronaldo is playing his sixth trip (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026), making him one of the only five players in history to keep this emblem in this edition.
The same list is:
Lionel Messy
Manuel Neuer
Y'to Nagatomo
Luca Modrich
In total, only eight players in history have managed to play at least five World Cups, including legends such as Lothar Matthäus and Rafael Márquez.
However, only the players participating in the 2026 World Cup have the honor of holding this special emblems, which has been introduced for the first time in this tournament. Periscope.
