{"id":9814,"date":"2017-09-03T05:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T05:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2017-09-03T05:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T05:28:21","slug":"ronaldo-surpasses-pele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/09\/03\/ronaldo-surpasses-pele\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo surpasses Pele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed a hat-trick in Portugal\u2019s 2018 World Cup qualifier on Thursday, to pass Pele on the list of top international goal scorers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo\u2019s three goals in their 5-1 win over Faroe Islands, took his tally for his country to 78 goals, surpassing the 77 that Pele scored for Brazil from 1957-1971.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the Real Madrid superstar needed 144 games to accomplish the feat, while Pele played in just 92.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was Ronaldo\u2019s fifth hat-trick for his country, all of which have come in official qualifiers for major tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He has 43 hat-tricks in his club career and he is now just six back of Hungary\u2019s Ferenc Puskas for the most international goals by a European player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed a hat-trick in Portugal&rsquo;s 2018 World Cup qualifier on Thursday, to pass Pele on the list of top international goal scorers. &nbsp; Ronaldo&rsquo;s three goals in their 5-1 win over Faroe Islands, took his tally for his country to 78 goals, surpassing the 77 that Pele scored for Brazil from 1957-1971. &nbsp; However, the Real Madrid superstar needed 144 games to accomplish the feat, while Pele played in just 92. &nbsp; It was Ronaldo&rsquo;s fifth hat-trick for his country, all of which have come in official qualifiers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9816,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions\/9816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}