Only One Player In History Now Has More European Cup Titles Than Cristiano Ronaldo

​Real Madrid celebrity Cristiano Ronaldo lifted the fifth Champions League title of his profession on the weekend following a Three-1 victory over Liverpool in Kyiv.

The fifth title of his profession strikes the Portuguese residing legend one forward of nice rival Lionel Messi in the continental stakes and places him into a very choose group of gamers to have received at the very least 5 European Cup/Champions League titles in the competitors's 62-year historical past.

Ronaldo is the 11th member of that illustrious, with simply a single participant successful extra.

That participant, with six titles, is Real icon Paco Gento. Surely, after backtracking on his imprecise menace of quitting the membership, Ronaldo already has that file equalling sixth title in his sights.

Gento was a part of the Real aspect that initially dominated the European Cup in its infancy, successful 5 trophies on the spin from 1956 to 1960. The winger, who additionally received a Spanish file of 12 La Liga titles throughout his profession, was then a part of Los Blancos' 1966 successful workforce as effectively.

He was the one participant current for the entire membership's first six European Cup triumphs.

Ronaldo's fifth European title ties him with 9 others. As many as seven of these are additionally from Real, once more from that early workforce that received an historic 5 in a row.

Bernabeu legend Alfredo Di Stefano, who scored in every of these finals as Real beat Reims (1956, 1959), Fiorentina (1957), AC Milan (1958) and Eintrach Frankfurt (1960), is amongst them.

As are, Marquitos, Juan Alonso, Jose Maria Zarraga, Rafael Lesmes, Juan Santisteban and Hector Rial. Just Gento survived to 1966 when Real beat Partizan Belgrade in Brussels.

From AC Milan, each Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Costacurta even have 5 European Cup/Champions League wins every. The pair of Italian defenders each loved unbelievable longevity in their careers, with 18 years separating their first and final titles in 1989 and 2007.

Until Real retained the Champions League final season, Maldini and Costacurta had been a part of the final workforce to efficiently defend a European title, having received it back-to-back in 1989 and 1990. Milan additionally received in 1994, when Costacurta was suspended for the ultimate, and in 2003.

Aged 41 by 2007 in his ultimate season as a skilled, Costacurta was overlooked of that ultimate in opposition to Liverpool, though he had performed a handful of video games in earlier rounds. Maldini, then again, began all 5 of his victorious finals.

Having additionally misplaced finals in 1993, 1995 and 2005, Maldini and Costacurta might have had extra titles. Equally, Real misplaced finals in 1962 and 1964 that may have inflated Gento's tally of wins. So far, Ronaldo has misplaced just one ultimate, when Manchester United had been crushed by Barcelona in 2009.

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