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Cristiano Ronaldo, now 41 years old, scored twice against Uzbekistan at the 2026 FIFA World Cup to become the first player in history to score in six different World Cup tournaments.
Six. As in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, and now 2026.
The record that nobody saw coming, except Ronaldo
Ronaldo first scored at a World Cup in Germany in 2006, when he was a 21-year-old with a flair for free kicks and a reputation still being built.
He also becomes only the second player, alongside Lionel Messi, to appear in six World Cup tournaments.
His brace against Uzbekistan ended what had been a goal drought at the 2026 World Cup.
The 2026 World Cup is being co-hosted across three countries: the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It is the first World Cup to expand to 48 teams.
Where crypto fits into all of this
Kraken, the crypto exchange, announced on June 9, 2026 that it had become FIFA’s first official crypto exchange partner.
Messi’s Argentine fan token, trading as $ARG, has an official structure behind it. Ronaldo’s digital footprint is more complicated. He has a collaboration with Binance around an NFT collection called CR7 ForeverZone, but there is no official Ronaldo fan token in the market.
Several unauthorized tokens using Ronaldo’s CR7 branding have circulated in the market, and platforms have issued warnings about the potential for scams and rug pulls connected to these assets. A rug pull is when a token’s creators drain its liquidity and disappear, leaving buyers with worthless holdings.
What this means for the crypto-sports intersection
For investors tracking the fan token space, the dynamic between Messi and Ronaldo offers an instructive case study. Messi has official digital asset representation. Ronaldo has a Binance NFT collaboration and a lot of unauthorized tokens trading on his name without his involvement.
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