Neymar is catching up. There is a good chance, by the end of their careers, the top 3 will be Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar.
200+ appearances for a national team as an outfield player is insane.
Lukaku is 8th in the world???
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.
Ronaldo only scoring his 50th goal at the age of 29 is crazy to still end up the highest
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
But Messi and Ronaldo caseses seem different.
Ronaldo doubled down and become even better after 30, Messi kept
a highan extraordinary level but he was far from his best (even if he managed to lead ARgentina to the WC)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
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…
Are this official games?
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…
Huh Uzbekistan?
Whats happening there? Never heard of their NT or players beeing good.
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