Ronaldo near that peak, Messi away

Ronaldo near that peak, Messi away

 Cristiano Ronaldo has spread so much color on the football field, on the statistics page. Wrote the story of all the great achievements. The 35-year-old forward has another record in front of him. If the body does not stand in the way of the weight of age, maybe one day he will take the crown of the highest goal scorer for the national team. Now that is getting adorned on the head of Ali Dai of Iran.

All kinds of sports suspended due to the deadly coronavirus. But age does not sit still. Is Ronaldo's time to climb to the top with a gap of 10 goals with Dai running out little by little? It is time to answer the question of whether the Portuguese forward can make a mark on the top before taking off his boots. This is a different event for the readers of bdnews24.com during this time of house arrest, where the stories of the top 10 goal scorers for the national team are included.

10. Sunil Chhetri, India (115 matches, 62 goals)

Sounds amazing but true, Lionel Messi is not in the top ten of this list. His goal average per match on the international stage is quite good, but for now, he is far from the pinnacle. The star forward has scored 60 goals for Argentina. India's Sunil Chhetri is at number 10 with two more goals than him.

Chhetri, popularly known as 'Captain Fantastic', has played the highest number of matches for the country. Has scored the highest number of goals (72). 2011 was his golden year for the national team; He played 13 matches and scored 13 goals. It's 35 years old, so there's hardly a chance to top the list.

9. Bashar Abdullah, Kuwait (133 matches, 75 goals)

In 2000, Kuwait won by the largest margin in their football history; Bhutan was blown away 20-0! Bashar Abdullah sent the ball into the opponent's net eight times in that match! Four days later, the forward scored five goals against Nepal.

Bashar, who played for Kuwait from 1996 to 2006, won two golf cups for the national team; The forward was also in the team that reached the semi-finals of the AFC Asian Cup. Most of his goals have come against teams like Bhutan, Nepal, Singapore, Palestine, and Uzbekistan.

8). Pele, Brazil (92 matches, 6 goals)

21 'unofficial' matches, so the 18 goals scored in these matches are also 'unofficial'. If these goals were added to the international goal page, the legend would have been in the second place of the list! As an official, he is eighth in the record with 6 goals in 92 matches.

Pele scored a pair of goals against Sweden in the 1958 World Cup final when he was just 16 years old. He scored a hat-trick against France in the semi-final. He got a taste of hat-trick six more times in his colorful career. He played 15 matches in four World Cups and scored 12 goals. He contributed 10 goals to his teammates. Pel headed the ball into the net against Italy in the 1970 World Cup final; Which was Brazil's 100th goal in the World Cup.

7). Zainal Abedin Hasan, Malaysia (138 matches, 6 goals)

Abedin has managed many matches for the country in his career. He was so good at attacking and defending that he started as a striker in some matches and was given the responsibility to hold the lead later.

Like Abedin, Hussein Saeed of Iraq also has 6 goals for the national team. But Abedin, who has scored 193 goals in 36 league matches in his club career, has slipped one step down due to playing one more match than him.

6) Hussein Saeed (Iraq, 138 matches, 6 goals)

Hussein Saeed is the 'Player of the Century' in the history of football in Iraq. If the international career did not end at the age of 32, this forward had the opportunity to raise the record even higher.

Saeed's path came to a halt when Iraq withdrew from the 1990 Iraq Golf Cup due to refereeing.

Al-Talaba, Iraq's top scorer, has spent his entire career there. Saeed was one of the key players in winning the country's Golf Cup in 1984.

5. Godfrey Chitalu (Zambia, 108 matches, 79 goals)

When Messi broke Jared Mueller's record for most goals in a calendar in 2012, the Zambian Football Federation claimed that Chitalu had scored 108 goals in a single year in 1982! Mueller scored 75 goals that year, a record that Messi later broke.

Zambia's demand has not been addressed. However, Chitalu has taken the place in the list of highest goals for the national team with 69 goals in 106 matches. Chitalu, who had a great time at the 1960 Moscow Olympics, died in a plane crash in 1993. He was the coach of the national team at that time.

4. Kunisige Kamamoto, Japan (64 matches, 60 goals)

He has been called Japan's first football 'superstar'. In his 13-year career from 1974 to 1986, Kamamoto had a great time at the 1986 Mexico Olympics. He gave a hat-trick in the match against Nigeria. He scored a pair of goals in the quarter-final against France. A third of the service was Japan.

Japan's hopes of qualifying for the 1970 World Cup were skyrocketing due to Kamamoto. But in 1979, he contracted hepatitis, which shocked Japan.

Kamamoto's best time for the country was in 1982; The forward entered the political arena after scoring 15 goals in eight matches.

3) Ferenc Puskas (Hungary, 65 matches, 64 goals)

Puskas played for the national team from 1945 to 1958 and scored 64 goals in 65 matches. The former forward, who earned the title of 'Galloping Major' for playing for the Hungarian Army Club, has scored three hat-tricks for the national team. The football great scored four goals in the match that defeated Albania 12-0.

Puskas scored four goals in the 1952 Olympic gold event in Hungary. He scored twice in the next two years, winning 6-3, 6-1 against England, respectively.

Puskas, who scored three goals in Hungary's first two matches at the 1954 World Cup, missed the next two matches due to a knee injury. He led the team back to the final against Germany but did not make the final save. Hungary's dream was shattered when they lost 3-2 in the last goal. Even Puskas.

2) Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal (164 matches, 99 goals)

When Ronaldo touched Stern Jones, who scored 60 goals for Trinidad and Tobago in 2016, he was still 11th on the list!

Ronaldo sat next to Puskas after scoring a hat-trick in their first match against Spain in the 2018 Russia World Cup. Only Ali Dai of Iran is now in front of the Portuguese star who beat Hungary Great in the next match against Morocco.

With one more goal, Ronaldo will become the second player in history to score a century in the national team jersey.

Ronaldo, who joined Serie A and Juventus from Real Madrid, is now 35 years old. This forward, who regularly plays for Portugal and Juventus at this age, seems to be giving this message - Ali Dai ... I am coming.

1. Ali Dai, Iran (149 matches, 109 goals)

Herta Berlin's 2-1 victory over Chelsea in the 1999 Champions League group stage was a spectacular sight for football fans. Ali Dai scored a header from Chelsea's six-foot-tall French defender Fran Lebouff; There is a precedent that very few forwards can do the job of overtaking Lebof!

Dai, who played for Iran from 1993 to 2006, topped the list with 109 goals. He has four goals in two matches in his career; In the 1998 Asian Cup against South Korea and the 2006 World Cup qualifier against Laos.

Dai, however, was not so good against a tough opponent. Did not see goals in 1998 and 2006 World Cups. However, the name of this forward is written in a great achievement of Iran in the 1998 World Cup. Iran defeated the United States by a goal scored by Seba, which is the first and last victory of the Iranians in the World Cup to date!