On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, we must remember the fallen... [video=youtube;bK39dwHTnr4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK39dwHTnr4[/video]
Doctor horse placenta will have him sorted for Villa, if not, Sandro problem solved, unhappy for Rafa, but still happy for Spurs.
Keane now the record international goal scorer from the British isles, quite a feat considering irelands recent lack of major tournaments. Got my fingers crossed for vdv.
Considering he probably has one more qualifying and tournament left in him after the Euros, he could notch up a pretty impressive tally. Will be hard to beat, certainly can't see any of the current England crop getting anywhere near.
Rooney could WY, but he'd really have to start upping his scoring rate. How long will Ferguson let him play for England, too?
This is an interesting list, some pretty irrelevent players up there... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...l_players_with_50_or_more_international_goals
I wouldn't put that much stock in the records of some of the non-European players, WY. Whilst I'd admit that there's some **** in the European groups, most of the opponents from non-European groups will be of a lower standard. Ali Daei's tally is still impressive and you can only score against what's in front of you, but I wouldn't compare it to Gerd Muller's frankly ridiculous record. I must admit that I'm almost totally ignorant of Sándor Kocsis. Didn't seem to play much for Barca, despite scoring quite regularly. Strange.
There's far more competition for his place than he'd probably like though, WY. If Barca ship him out, then he may end up losing his place in the Spanish national side, too.
I was going to post something to the same effect, the players on that list from Asia and the Middle East were playing against some opposition that was dubious at best. When you see that some of them moved to Europe for a year and failed to get a single appearance for the likes of Huddersfield it highlights just how much the lower the general standard is outside of Europe, the Americas and Africa.
Don't Asian teams have to play a ****load of qualifying games anyway? I vaguely remember winning the 2010 Fifa World Cup (PS3 Game) with Qatar, and there was a few small groups then one big group. 6061 or someone might be able to add a bit more detail to this.
There's four rounds for North & Central America - just the dregs compete in the first round, the second round introduces the teams expected in the third stage to eliminate the dregs with extreme prejudice over two legs, the third round sees the teams that're good but not good enough (Canada, Cuba etc) eliminated, and the fourth round decides who joins Mexico and the US in the tournament. At least in Asia the teams that're going to qualify anyway aren't inflicted on the teams that clearly won't until the third round - sparing teams the monotony of removing the ball from the back of their net for the fifth or sixth time. Gigi Riva is 15 shy - two behind Savo Milosevic! No Dutch players either - Kluivert finished on 40, Van Nistelrooy is on 35, Huntellar on 30 and van Persie on 25. Berbatov retired (by his own free will, of course...) on 48, Shevchenko and Landon Donovan are both on 46
Those are some quite good stats, surprised Huntelaar has got so many really considering how he's flopped at the top level for the last 5 years, Berbatov was silly to retire from internationals - it's practically the only chance he gets to play these days. Also Donovan on 46 is a good effort...
