Goal against the Spanish national team was extremely important not only for the Portuguese national team, but also for Cristiano.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in the match against Spain. Thus, he became the fourth player who scored in four world championships. In addition, Ronaldo - the first who scored in 8 major tournaments teams (Euro and World Cup) in a row.

However, before the match with the Spaniards, Ronaldo never managed to score for the national team in the finals of the Euro and the World Cup by a direct free-kick.

Yesterday Cristiano tried to do it for the 45th time, and for the first time this attempt was successful.

Now on account of Ronaldo 84 goals for the Portuguese team. Thus, he repeated the record of Ferenc Puskas by the number of goals for European teams. The world record belongs to Iranian Ali Daei - 109 goals.