5 Records and Milestones Cristiano Ronaldo achieved vs Spain

#2 Oldest ever player to score a World Cup hat-trick

Ronaldo has broken a record that stood for nearly 40 years

Ronaldo’s hat-trick was the first of the WC 2018, the 51st in the history of the tournament and also made him the oldest player to score a hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup.

Sometimes it is hard to comprehend the fact that Ronaldo is 33 because there doesn’t seem to be any dip in his performance level whatsoever and whenever questions are raised about his ability to perform at the highest level during a dry patch, he responds with a sumptuous performance.

At 33 years and 131 days, Ronaldo became the oldest goalscorer at a World Cup by comfortably beating the previous record held by Rob Rensenbrink of Netherlands who at 30 years and 336 days, scored a hat-trick against Iran at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.