If India isn’t playing WC during Chethri’s time, then when?
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?
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.
Are this official games?
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
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
Top5 without friendlies included:
Ronaldo 108
Chhetri 64
Lewandowski 62
Messi 57
Lukaku 56
Bit unfair on south american nationals tbf
Now make a list removing matches vs FIFA rank 80+
Lol, surely those ‘competitive’ goals against San Marino, Gibraltar, etc are worth more than friendlies against Brazil, France, etc.
108 vs 64 next. Quite the big game player.
France beating Gibraltar 14-0 was a competitive game. Make of that what you want.
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
Chhetri casually pulling in the goat debate
The Goat of international football un-ironically
Indian football barely makes the news, I can’t name a player, and yet this stat exists. Wtf.
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.
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
Agreed. It’s not like we have a Gibraltar or Malta or St Vincent and the Grenadines or Puerto Rico.
UEFA is great for International stat padding.
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.
At the same time you can lose half your games and still qualify which you could obviously never do in UEFA.
alexis also did it with 52
…and still counting.
Good point! My data was outdated