Cristiano Ronaldo
is either the best player on the face of the earth or the second best.
Which place you feel he holds can certainly be debated, but that he
holds one of those two spots is inarguable.
On Saturday, the Portuguese
star scored five goals in a match against Espanyol, and in so doing passed Raul to become the top goalscorer in La Liga in Real Madrid history.
Ronaldo's five goal tally took
him to 230 career league goals for Madrid, surpassing Raul's 228 scored
between 1994 and 2010.
It's an incredible accomplishment, especially
when you consider the insane amount of talent with him in the upper
reaches of Real Madrid's
goalscoring charts. Raul. Alfredo Di Stefano. Carlos Cantillana. Hugo
Sanchez.
The list goes on, each name with tons of star power behind it.
Now, in La Liga at least, Cristiano Ronaldo stands alone atop the mountain.
Ronaldo still has one last goalscoring hurdle to clear for Real Madrid, though. Raul still has a five-goal lead on him in Los Merengues'
all-competitions scoring charts, with 323 compared to the 318 that
Ronaldo has scored since making the Santiago Bernabeu his home in 2009.
The incredible difference between the two isn't just the speed in years
to reach their respective marks, but also in the matches played.
Raul
took 16 years and 550 league matches -- 741 across all competitions --
to accumulate his goal tally. Ronaldo? Just over six years and only 203
league matches, with another 100 in other competitions. Yes, Ronaldo
has scored more than a goal a game on average during his Real Madrid
career. That's astounding.
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