I don’t miss him at Inter but Romelu is objectively so fucking good. He’s going to join the very select group of players that scored over 100 goals for NT. Thats simply crazy.
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Ronaldo will be substituted in to taken penalties in his 60s.
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..
Lukaku ends his career at the top of this list
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
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.
Ronaldo started scoring more after turning 30, lord Lakaka can easily replicate that
Lukaku is 8th in the world?????????????????????????????????
Reached 50 goals 4 years ago, is at 83 today. Really impressive
The craziest thing is that he has around 16 goals in his first 50 games and has been averaging around one goal per game since 2016 now.
You laugh, but if he maintains his current trajectory, he will be number one in about five years' time.
Man's got a goals per game ratio that Ali Daei himself would be proud of.
He won't overtake Ronaldo, no chance
I mean, he's just turned 30, and he needs 46 more goals to overtake him. Ronaldo probably can't keep going past the next euros you would have thought, so maybe the target will end up around 50.
Lukaku's averaging about 8 goals per year, and it's not like there are any red hot young Belgian strikers in place to surpass him. So if he keeps going past the next world cup, then there is a small chance; weirder things have happened.
and it's not like there are any red hot young Belgian strikers
Well, there is Openda who is very much on an upwards trajectory. I could see him take Lukaku's starting spot when Lukaku gets a bit older and Openda gets even better. But even in that scenario, Lukaku will definitely still be in the squad and get playing time.
Damn lukaky is just 30? I thought he was much older
Scoring in Europe is much easier than SA due to numerous bad countries, and most of the all time great forwards came from SA (Messi, Pele, R9, Rivaldo, Maradona, Ronaldinho, Suarez, Milito, Forlan) so yeah.
People here don't like to hear it, but it's simply so much easier to get goals now than 20-40 years ago.
is it? 40 years ago scorelines 10:0 were pretty normal, nowadays I would only say it's easier because there are more competitions which means more matches
200+ appearances for a national team as an outfield player is insane.
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.
Puskas 0.94 goals per game is insane not even Messi or Ronaldo are averaging that much internationally
Chitalu's and Dahari's deaths are both very sad. Chitalu died at 45 on 27th April 1993 when a plane carrying the Zambian national team crashed in the ocean, 30 people total died. Dahari was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and died 3 years later of muscular dystrophy at age 37 on 11th July 1991.
My GOAT sunil chettri is not top3 players of all time anymore. Pains.
Are this official games?
Neymar is catching up. There is a good chance, by the end of their careers, the top 3 will be Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar.
Date of 50th goal seems like an odd stat to bother listing...what does it show? How does it help with anything? It's not age at 50th goal or number of caps to 50, it's just the date...
Ronaldo only scoring his 50th goal at the age of 29 is crazy to still end up the highest
C. Ronaldo has over 400 goals after turning 30. He has scored more goals after turning 30 than most of the best strikers during their whole career... (Ronaldo, Raul, Van nistelrooy etc..)
Ronaldo after 30: over 400+ goals, 2 Ballon D'ors, 2x FIFA best, Euro 2016, championships in Spain and Italy, three Champions League back to back
Messi after 30: 250+ goals, 3 Ballon D'ors, World Cup 2022 win, 1x FIFA best.
Most players start going downhill after 30 these mfs doubled up on their individual awards and achievements
I don't know why, but is there a problem in CAF? How come we don't have prolific goal scorers?
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)
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.
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