• jm9987690@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Ronaldo only scoring his 50th goal at the age of 29 is crazy to still end up the highest

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      1 year ago

      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

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        1 year ago

        But Messi and Ronaldo caseses seem different.

        Ronaldo doubled down and become even better after 30, Messi kept a high an extraordinary level but he was far from his best (even if he managed to lead ARgentina to the WC)

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          Unless you purely compare stats, Ronaldo pre-30 is better than Ronaldo post-30. What he has going over his pre-30 days is winning. 3 b2b2b Champions Leagues and the Euro 2016 means his post-30s are greater than his pre-30s, but purely in terms of overall player performance, 06-14 were his peak. But with all that he has a GOAT level career just considering his post 30 career

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            1 year ago

            Maybe improved is not the word, but my impression is that he become more decisive and clutch. Maybe this is coincidental with the departure of Guardiola and decrease of Barcelona’s dominance which left more room to Madrid and CR to claim the throne.

            In any case, I think the point I was trying to make is understood and that Messi and Cristiano’s careers are not really parallels despite their huge longevity and consistency

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      1 year ago

      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…)

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    1 year ago

    Ali Daei is a name I haven’t heard in a long time. I remember the big announcements in the newspapers, when Bayern signed the “WELTTORJÄGER”. Gives me flashbacks to that Bayern team with the likes of Kahn, Matthäus, Lizarazu, Effenberg, Scholl, Basler, Elber at the end of the 90s.

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    1 year ago

    Ronaldo and Lewandowsky have like 200+ international goals each but not even two at the World Cup. Flat track merchants.

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    1 year 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…

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        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.

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      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

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        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.

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    1 year ago

    Commenting here just to mention our nation’s hero name Mokhtar Dahari the supermokh!

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      1 year ago

      Shared a pitch with Maradona once. Pretty insane to imagine that, for us now.

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    1 year 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)

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      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.

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    1 year 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.