Yesterday's match of the 1/8 finals of the 2022 World Cup between the national teams of Portugal and Switzerland (6:1) was the 21st for the striker of the Portuguese national team Cristiano Ronaldo in the world championships.
This allowed the 37-year-old football player to overtake the legendary Argentinean Diego Maradona, the German Uwe Seeler (he played for the German national team) and the Pole Vladislav Zhmuda, who also played 21 matches in the world championships in their football career.
The former football player of the German and German national teams Lothar Matthäus is in the lead in the rating of the "guardsmen" of the world championships - he has 25 matches played at world championships.
Leaders in the number of matches played at world championships:
Lothar Matthäus (Germany) - 25 matches
Miroslav Klose (Germany) — 24
Paolo Maldini (Italy), Lionel Messi (Argentina) — 23
Diego Maradona (Argentina), Uwe Seeler (Germany), Vladislav Zhmuda (Poland), Cristiano Ronaldo - 21