I don’t know why, but is there a problem in CAF? How come we don’t have prolific goal scorers?
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I do think international goals hold less weight these days, due to the amount of games played. Especially European nations playing the likes of San Marino, Luxembourg, Andorra etc more often.
Imagine one country in AFC was an elite national team for many decades of the likes of France, Germany in the past, Spain etc… We would have seen a 200 goals scorer given how many levels below most Asian teams are. But now AFC is making huge progress with Japan, South Korea, Uzbekistan slowly, etc…
Huh Uzbekistan?
Whats happening there? Never heard of their NT or players beeing good.
Drawn 2-2 with Iran in last match. Also check their last fixtures, you will get it.
They just beat England in the rd of 16 knockout game of the U17 WC. Yesterday was the match I think
And Uzbekistan is basically set to qualify for the next WC with the increase in slots. The AFC getting only 4/5 slots in all the previous WCs basically kept Uzbekistan out of contention from final qualification. But this year they seem an even better team than any time before and with that U17 lot putting on the performance that they have yesterday, they only seem to be getting better with regards to their future chances too
I’d liken them to the Atletico Madrid teams we’ve seen over the past decade. Physical, defensively solid, potential to launch some solid counter attacks, decent finishing across their attacking ranks. But yes, Imo, its their ability to not give an inch as a collective to their opposition that is their biggest strength. They’ll latch onto the opposition when they have the ball and harass them into giving it up basically.
We (India) are clubbed with them, Australia and Syria in the Asian Cup group. Our U17 lads also faced this current U17 team earlier this year in the final round for the U17 WC qualification. They absolutely got our boys mentally done for 75-80 mins out of the 90 with their physical game and got a 1-0 win iirc. So a handful of us on the Indian football sub have followed their recent results and it’s not an over exaggeration to say that they’re right behind Iran, South Korea and Japan with regards to overall quality.
Lukaku ends his career at the top of this list
I’d bet Mbappé will have more than Lukaku then.
49 goals behind Ronaldo and he’s already 30, he needs to score more international goals than Bobby Charlton did in his entire career between now and retirement to do that and that’s only if Ronaldo doesn’t score another one
Ronaldo started scoring more after turning 30, lord Lakaka can easily replicate that
Bringing Bobby Charlton who wasn’t a striker into this is just silly.
It all depends if he can keep up his current form this year. If he plays for 5 more years roughly, it’s 10 goals a year which is a big ask but not out of the question.
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Puskas 0.94 goals per game is insane not even Messi or Ronaldo are averaging that much internationally
Haaland is though.
My GOAT sunil chettri is not top3 players of all time anymore. Pains.
On the plus side, his goals/games ratio is better than Messi and Ronaldo.
Chettri is the true GOAT🐐🐐🐐
Messi is the Argentinian Chettri.
Who does Chhetri even score against?
205 caps is mad, that record will probably stay for a loong time. (if it is a record, im not sure but you’d think it is)
He was going toe to toe with a player from Kuwait I think, but seems the latter slowed down.
EDIT: his name is Bader Al-Mutawa and he has 196 caps but the last was in June 2022, probably won’t reach Ronaldo.
Cristiano Ronaldo is aging like a fine wine 🍷
200+ appearances for a national team as an outfield player is insane.
It’s honestly fitting that only Ronaldo, and probably Messi, will get to that number, at least for a few years.
Top two goalscorers as well, even more probable.
Date of 50th goal seems like an odd stat to bother listing…what does it show? How does it help with anything? It’s not age at 50th goal or number of caps to 50, it’s just the date…
It’s from the “List of men’s footballers with 50 or more international goals” wiki page hence they added a date of the 50th goal.
I hope Lewandowski can be 3rd on this list by the end of his career
I know it’s not the most immediately eye-catching number on this list, but Lewandowski scoring over 80 goals for a country that hasn’t been consistently able to create chances since the early Eighties is absolutely insane.
Upon my name as Godfrey
Are this official games?
Arent all international games “official” games?
All games count for NT.