• luffy565@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Messi score to Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Curacao

      See how easy that is…

      • KrayleyAML@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

        • jimmyb03181998@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          An official match against 200th ranked Lithuania gets more credit than a friendly against Brazil. Do you not understand how absurd that sounds?

  • DontCareBuddyThanks@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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

    • kakje666@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      that argument can be made for ever single federation , every continent has countries that get easily beat by everyone

    • fijozico@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      His last appearance for the Japanese national team was aged 33 in 2000. This graphic only includes goals since 2000.

      • mg10pp@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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

  • jaguass@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Indian football barely makes the news, I can’t name a player, and yet this stat exists. Wtf.

  • Muppy_N2@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • sincethelasttime@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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

      • atwerrrk@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        At the same time you can lose half your games and still qualify which you could obviously never do in UEFA.

      • esridiculo@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Agreed. It’s not like we have a Gibraltar or Malta or St Vincent and the Grenadines or Puerto Rico.

      • patiperro_v3@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

  • Worthyworth@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Lukaku’s stats are insane when you know he has been playing in Belgian national team since 2010.

  • RamPamPam8@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hope Lucho Suárez can reach 70 on his next (and supposedly last game with Uruguay) against Bolivia

  • SaWaGaAz@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Since there is no player from any African nations that made it, here’s a few African footballers with the most international goals since 2000:

    1. Didier Drogba - 65 goals in 105 matches

    2. Samuel Eto’o - 56 goals in 118 matches

    3. Mohamed Salah - 55 goals in 94 matches

    4. Asamoah Gyan - 51 goals in 109 matches

    5. Islam Slimani - 44 goals in 96 matches

    For Oceania (including Australia):

    1. Tim Cahill - 50 goals in 108 matches

    2. Roy Krishna - 35 goals in 49 matches

    3. Chris Wood - 34 goals in 73 matches

    4. Commins Menapi - 34 goals in 37 matches

    • dimyo@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It looks really hard to score in African international matches.

      All the recent African Cup of Nations tournaments had 2 goals per game or fewer. Compared to the 2.7 average of the world cups.

    • Muur1234@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      i mean if was from europe or elsewhere its not like hed play for england or france or anything hes not actually that good