Lewandowski is super impressive since Poland as a team is not that quality
I can only think of like 5 other Polish players that were actually class over the last decade. It’s kinda surprising how mid they are.
Eastern Europe special lol
If India isn’t playing WC during Chethri’s time, then when?
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
Put some respek on Lukaku’s name.
Why is Ali Daei not on here…? He’s scored 109 for Iran and was #1 in intl goals until Ronaldo displaced him.
Why since 2000? So Iranian Ali Daei can be dropped form the list?
Do Chelsea fans know there’s a post with positive stats about Lukaku?
Ali Mabkhout is lethal.
Damn who’s the Indian man?
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.
alexis also did it with 52
Good point! My data was outdated
…and still counting.
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
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.
At the same time you can lose half your games and still qualify which you could obviously never do in UEFA.
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.
A Chetri appears in the wild.
Lukaku’s stats are insane when you know he has been playing in Belgian national team since 2010.
And he is just 30, could easily score another 30 goals if he plays till 35
wished he was in group J , he would’ve probably scored like 15-20 goals
Lukaku is third now with yesterday’s match
Ronaldo score to Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, San marino, Gibraltar…
Messi score to Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Curacao
See how easy that is…
Panama is ranked higher than half of UEFA.
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?
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.
Indian football barely makes the news, I can’t name a player, and yet this stat exists. Wtf.