• samgreggo77@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • ro-row@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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

      • Wide_Challenge3880@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

  • Aenjeprekemaluci@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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…

      • Raken_dep@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

  • FrederickIBarbarossa@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • miermak@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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)

    • jugol@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

  • Random0cassions@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The difference between Messi and ronaldo is 22 goals in 25 appearances. Messi to lukaku is 23 in 67. I feel like lukaku could become all time goal scorer if his game ages gracefully

  • LuiTep@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Neymar is catching up. There is a good chance, by the end of their careers, the top 3 will be Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar.