These lists always just boil down to Messi and Ronaldo fans arguing over who is the GOAT. The most boring discussion in football.
More like CONMEBOL vs UEFA
Sunil chetri to indian fans.
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And only, 2 world cup trophies between them all?
TIL the best player in the world is Mabkhout
Put some respek on Lukaku’s name.
The amount of goals C. Ronaldo (and many european players) have on “small islands and states” is crazy though. Some dudes are literally dentists, butchers and gardeners hahahaa
that argument can be made for ever single federation , every continent has countries that get easily beat by everyone
Chhetri casually pulling in the goat debate
The Goat of international football un-ironically
I swear Kaz Miura was in the top 10. Am I tripping or nah?
His last appearance for the Japanese national team was aged 33 in 2000. This graphic only includes goals since 2000.
It’s crazy he retired so early with Japan, considering that he is still playing…
Maybe not the best comparison but a bit like Maldini retiring with Italy 7 years earlier than with Milan and missing the World Cup win
Indian football barely makes the news, I can’t name a player, and yet this stat exists. Wtf.
Ali Mabkhout is lethal.
Suarez, Neymar and Messi are among the 8 South American players in history to reach 50 international goals.
Counting active players, Cavani is another one.
Tells you about how a massive feat that is in the region.
Qualifying for the tournaments is easier overall for the big South American teams because they are much better than the weaker teams over the course of many games, but there is no comparison between the actual difficulty of the games. Weak South American teams are still incredibly difficult to beat. There isn’t a single easy game in CONMEBOL
At the same time you can lose half your games and still qualify which you could obviously never do in UEFA.
UEFA is great for International stat padding.
Agreed. It’s not like we have a Gibraltar or Malta or St Vincent and the Grenadines or Puerto Rico.
Pre-1990’s I’d say Venezuela would have been THAT team. But today’s Venezuela is scoring bicycle kick goals in Brazil and getting out of there with a point. I believe football is catching up to, if not surpassing, baseball in popularity for the first time.
With the expansion they will most likely make it to the next World Cup. Should be amazing to see those players singing the national anthem of their country for the first time in a World Cup.
alexis also did it with 52
Good point! My data was outdated
…and still counting.
Damn who’s the Indian man?
A Chetri appears in the wild.
Chettri shouldn’t have been born in India( coming from an Indian)
i mean if was from europe or elsewhere its not like hed play for england or france or anything hes not actually that good
Even if he wouldn’t have been a world class striker or something he would at least have a decorated career
Ronaldo score to Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, San marino, Gibraltar…
Messi score to Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Curacao
See how easy that is…
Messi is not part of CONCACAF. At least get that right. Perhaps he has scored some goals against them, but most of his international goals are not against those countries.
Friendly matches don’t count, Ronaldo did it in oficcial matches .
An official match against 200th ranked Lithuania gets more credit than a friendly against Brazil. Do you not understand how absurd that sounds?
Panama is ranked higher than half of UEFA.