This Wednesday Sergio Ramos He opened the scoring in the Champions League game against PSV and his goal went down in history.
The defender scored a free kick with his head that Ivan Rakitic took and scored the 10,000th goal in the history of the tournament in its modern version, that is, since 1992 when it became the UEFA champions league, after being the European Champions Clubs Cup for 37 years.
In this way, Sergio Ramos scored his first goal since his return to Sevilla eighteen years after his departure to Real Madrid and joins other players who have a similar place in history with this round figure of 10,000 goals in continental competition. for scoring ancient goals, like Dmitri Khokhlov, who scored goal number 1,000 for PSV Eindhoven in 1998.
The 2,000th was scored by the Portuguese Fernando Couto with Lazio in 2001, while the 3,000th was through the boots of David Trezeguet, the legendary French player, with Juventus in 2003.
The 4,000th was scored by Peter Crouch with Liverpool FC in 2007 and three years later, in 2010, the 5,000th signed by Luisao with Benfica arrived.
In 2013 the 6,000th arrived through Sergio Ramos himself; 7,000 was from Ángel Di María in 2017 with PSG, while 8,000 was scored by Erik Lamela with Tottenham and 9,000 was from Emerson with Chelsea just two years ago.
His second thousand-year goal, although the first was unfortunate
As we just mentioned, Ramos also scored the 6,000th goal of the competition, although it is surely not something that makes him proud, since it was a bit of an own goal when he played for Real Madrid in a match against Manchester United.
It was in the 48th minute of the match when the defender tried to cut off a Red Devils cross, but with such bad luck that his right leg put the ball into the corner of the goal defended by Diego López. His inadvertent miss will always be remembered as the 6,000th goal of the tournament.
As a curious fact, the now Sevilla central defender He is the only player to have scored two milestone goals. On the other hand, their current rival, PSV, is the only team that has been present in three of these goals, since Khokhlov scored 1,000 with them and they received 4,000 from Crouch and 10,000 from Ramos.
With his goal on this fifth day of the ‘Champions’ against Dutch PSV Eindhoven, Sergio Ramos, one of Sevilla’s captains, becomes the defender with the most goals scored in the history of this competition with 17 in 141 games -counting this Wednesday’s-, according to BeSoccer data, although UEFA did not count as his own one that he achieved in a match with Real Madrid against Napoli in a shot that hit an opponent, but was going towards the goal.
In this section, the defender from Camas, if we take into account that there are 17 goals, has surpassed his former Brazilian teammate Roberto Carlos (16 goals in 120 Champions League games), to the former Barcelona fans Gerard Piqué (16 in 128 games) and Dani Alves (12 in 111) or the Italian Panucci (11 in 74).
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