With the repoker (5 annotations) that he achieved against Estonia, Lionel Messi he established himself as the top South American scorer in national team football. In addition, in the global ranking (considering all the confederations) he left behind the legendary Ferenc Puskás.
The top winner of the Ballon d’Or continues to increase his records with The Albiceleste. And although he is the absolute boss in his continent, Lio continues away from Cristiano Ronaldowho leads the table of players with the most goals in national team football.
The difference between the greatest in history is 31 goals. For all that he has achieved in his brilliant career, it is impossible to rule out Messi in this battle. However, he looks very difficult for him to match or beat CR7’s figure. And it is that Cris does not stop converting and his classification and competition zone (UEFA) lends itself more to maintaining a video game scoring rhythm.
Likewise, despite the fact that the UEFA knockout process is less competitive/demanding than that of CONMEBOL, it doesn’t detract from CR7’s merit, eh. If it were that easy (something that is often repeated on social networks), this list would be full of European strikers, and it is not. What the current 7 of Manchester United has achieved is unprecedented and deserves to be valued as such.
TOP 10 HISTORICAL SCORERS – NATIONAL TEAM FOOTBALL
- CRISTIANO RONALDO (Portugal): 117 goals in 188 games.
- Ali Daei (Iran): 109 goals in 149 games.
- Mokhtar Dahari (Malaysia): 89 goals in 142 games.
- LIONEL MESSI (Argentina): 86 goals in 162 games.
- Ferenc Puskás (Hungary): 84 goals in 85 games.
- Godfrey Chitalu (Zambia): 79 goals in 111 games.
- Hussein Saeed (Irak): 78 goals in 137 games.
- Pele (Brazil): 77 goals in 92 games.
- Ali Mabkhout (United Arab Emirates): 77 goals in 95 games.
- Sándor Kocsis (Hungary): 75 goals in 68 games.
There is nothing left but to surrender to the greatest in history.
Undefeated data. Cristiano Ronaldo is not only the top scorer in national team football, he is also the top scorer in professional football. He has 815 touchdowns in 1,121 games. Monstrosity.
Did you know…? Lionel Messi has more direct participations in goals (1100) than games played (938) in his professional career. He has 769 goals and 331 assists in 934 games. The art of playing and making play in the purest state of it.