Happy to have met El Pescadito a couple of times. Absolute class and a gem of a person.
Surprised it’s not an Australian player from the era when they were pumping 10 past Oceania micronations regularly.
Never forget Archie Thompson scoring 13 and then getting dropped for the next match
I think it’s because we only ever played a handful of games and we didn’t have a huge goal scoring machine so most of the time the we’d have things like 6 goals and 5 scorers.
Ronaldo and Messi have nothing over El Pescadito
I found his stats to be very interesting, since Guatemala plays in the Concacaf qualifiers he often had the chance to play against very weak teams, and in particular of those 39 goals 5 were for example against Antigua and Barbuda, 5 vs Saint Vincent and Grenadines and 4 against Trinidad and Tobago
And in particular he played against Saint Vincent only once, where he scored 5 goals in what was also his farewell match before retiring at 37 years
We all know that CR means Carlos Ruiz, thats why Cristiano had to put the his number (CR7) there to not get confused with the real GOAT
MLS legend Carlos Ruiz ❤️ he was a baller during my early childhood
I am surprised Lukaku is not up there. He always seem to score a bunch against minnows every qualifiers for tournaments.
Good to see Dzeko up there. It’s a shame our team is shit now
To be honest we have good young players coming in. The FA are so rotten that the team don’t even wanna play anymore and ofc the new manager isn’t ideal at all.
Ronaldo after stat padding against European countries with the population less than london
Messi has 16 more games according to this post and less goals.
Look at the teams though
But he plays against real footballing nations.
As a Guatemalan, I miss Pescadito so much.
King Kazu 👑🎌
Karim Bagheri being the 7th highest scorer while playing Defensive Midfield is pretty damn impressive
it’s possible that Ronaldo or Messi can break the record
I will never forget the assist of Ruiz that helped Aris win Atletico Madrid. Probably his only good moment with the club.
Fun fact about Karim Bagheri: a quarter of his 28 goals came in one match, when he scored 7 against Maldives in Iran’s qualifying match for the 1998 world cup.
Miura’s record seems kind of insane