Marta and Sinclair’s viral ‘response’ to CR7’s World Cup record

The news spread around the world: Cristiano Ronaldo made history in Qatar by becoming the only player to score goals in five consecutive World Cups. The world repeated this brutal record, although it ignored one detail: before the Portuguese, two women had broken said record.

And it is true that crack was the first person to achieve this feat, but not the first football player, because before him two legends like Marta Vieira da Silva, from Brazil, and Christine Sinclair, from Canada, they did it in abundance in the 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019 World Cups.

In the case of Martha, the forward holds the record for scoring the most goals in World Cups, in both the women’s and men’s categories, with a total of 17 goals, in addition to winning three Copa América and two Olympic medals.

For his part, Christine Sinclair He scored goals in the same five World Cups, adding ten in total, two more than Cristiano Ronaldo who with his goal against Ghana reached eight.

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Faced with this situation, a photographic montage with both players reading a newspaper with news of the record of Cristiano Ronaldo on the cover and openly laugh at it. This was done through the Instagram account @forzafootballapp: “Ronaldo is the first player to score in five different World Cups? Do you want to check your data?”, wrote the publication, which went viral and won thousands of likes.