I dont get this, why is nearly every single leading scorer from the new era?
Why is it never like „yeah he played in the 70s and is leading scorer off xyz“
You can check that, i am not talking bs, its hard to find a leading scorer that was in his prime between 1970-90
Why?
Simon Garner, Blackburn Rovers.
168 Goals between 1978-1992
This is false. Many clubs have record holders from ages ago. That said if you’re a club who plays consistently in Europe then you get many more games per season due to the newer formats. Similarly at international level tournaments are much bigger now so more games and a better chance of qualifying
A think the single biggest factor is that the rules are different now. There are several examples of rules changes that have come in during the last 50 years that would increase scoring. The backpass rule, 3 league points for a win (it used to be 2), stricter foul rules and substitutions all come to mind.
fuckin idiot you could have worked this out for yourself
You’ve still got some players:
Eusebio (Benfica)
Greaves (Spurs)
Uwe Seeler (Hamburg)
Muller (Bayern Munich)
Gigi Riva (Italy)
Fernando Gomes (Porto)
Pelè (Santos)
Roberto Dinamite (Vasco da Gama)
Zico (Flamengo)
Liverpool (Ian Rush)
I’m probably missing out on a lot of players too.
Kane overtook Greaves
My bad
Longer careers now due to improved fitness training and diet impact both stats and more internationals per year impacts that list.
Gerd Müller was West Germany’s top scorer but he only played 62 international games in an 8 year international career. Miroslav Klose overtook him but he has played 137 times in 13 years. He’s still only scored 3 more goals than Müller mind.
And Müller is still the overall top scorer in the Bundesliga (365 goals). In fact, eight of the top ten overall scorer’s in Bundesliga history are not from the modern day era. Only Lewandowski (2nd, 312 goals) and Claudio Pizarro (6th 197 goals) are.
Gerd Müller was an absolute beast though. Underrated as hell tbh
Underrated? Universally recognised as an all time great goal scorer
literally has an award named after him which is given every year I don’t think he’s underrated
Gerd made a great boot…….one of the best soccer boots ever.
The Copa? Can’t get them in California :(
Gerd Mueller Specials by Adidas……classic design. It was Sambas and Gerd Mueller specials……
Check the list of top scorers in the English top flight here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_football_first_tier_top_scorers
Out of the top 50, I get 8 predominantly in your new era and a similar number in the 60 to 90 ish bracket (expanded a bit to make a similar time period).
Yeh the argument doesn’t really hold in English football.
If that’s what they’re looking at, OP could be looking at top Premier League scores? I really hate how the record of so many gets overlooked with our focus on the prem.
I did wonder that for a second. I really hope OP isn’t wondering why there are no Premier League top scorers from before 1992.