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Ronaldo becomes 1st player to score 100 goals in UEFA club competitions

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Add another record to the pile.

With a second-half brace against Bayern Munich in Wednesday's Champions League contest, Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player ever to hit the 100-goal mark in UEFA club competitions.

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The 32-year-old, who now has four goals in the Champions League this season, brought his side level at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday with a slicing volley, and then reached the milestone 30 minutes later by prodding a cross between the legs of Manuel Neuer.

The giant German shot-stopper had turned Ronaldo aside with a spectacular one-armed save minutes earlier, but the Portuguese goal-plunderer got his vengeance, leading his side to a massive 2-1 triumph in the opening leg of the heavyweight quarter-final meeting.

Ronaldo's 100 UEFA club goals have been spread across three competitions, with 97 coming in the Champions League proper, two in the UEFA Super Cup, and one in Champions League qualifying.

His 97 tallies in Europe's marquee competition - also an all-time best - are three more than perennial rival Lionel Messi.

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