Who is the best free kick taker of all time?

#1 Juninho Pernambucano – 77 free-kick goals
The former Olympique Lyonnais legend and mid-fielder
mid-fielder
A midfielder is an association football position. Midfielders are generally positioned on the field between their team's defenders and forwards. Some midfielders play a strictly-defined defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are otherwise known as defensive midfielders.
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Midfielder
scored as many as 77 goals from set-pieces. Juninho is considered the greatest free-kick taker of all time. He was also the inventor of the knuckle-ball technique shoots as well.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on sportzpoint.com


Who is the best free-kick taker in the whole world?

Messi has scored a quite incredible 50 free-kicks and is probably the best in the world right now. Pirlo and Mihajlović are both up there in terms of the most prolific.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on givemesport.com


Who has scored most free-kicks in football history?

Juninho Pernambucano ranks ahead of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham as the player who has scored the most club free-kicks in the 21st century.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on sportbible.com


Who is the king of free-kick taker?

1. Juninho. So, here we have it: the world's current best free-kick taker.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on bleacherreport.com


Who is the god of penalty?

The Southampton Legend Matt Le Tissier has to be the best ever penalty taker of all time. He had an incredible record and still remains one of the greatest penalty record in the history of football. He had a conversion rate of over 95% which was truly remarkable.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on chaseyoursport.com


Top 10 Free Kick Takers Of All Time



Who scored most penalty goals?

Cristiano Ronaldo is the most successful player when it comes to scoring from the penalty spot in the 21st century. Out of the 803 goals, the Manchester United player scored so far in his career, 114 came from penalties. Ronaldo is followed by his close rival Lionel Messi and AS Roma and Italy legend Francesco Totti.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on goal.com


Who is the king of penalty in football?

1. Matt Le Tissier. Matt Le Tissier is known among soccer historians as the best ever in terms of penalties in world football history. The reason being his ridiculous penalty conversion percentage.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on bleacherreport.com


Who is better in free-kicks Messi or Ronaldo?

Even though Messi has taken more free-kicks than Ronaldo in recent years, CR7 has taken nearly 100 more in his career, with 533 shots from dead balls and 33 resulting in goals (6.1%). Since the start of the 2017/18 season, Ward-Prowse has taken 76 shots from free-kicks in league matches, scoring 14.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on planetsport.com


How many free-kicks has CR7 scored?

Cristiano Ronaldo may have scored 55 free-kicks throughout his career, but is it time the Portuguese forward hands over set-pieces to someone else? During his rise to becoming one of the best players in the world, a lot of the praise given to Cristiano Ronaldo was down to his ability to score in a multitude of ways.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on planetsport.com


Who has most hat tricks in football?

Lionel Messi is arguably the best footballer ever. He is a true footballing genius who has a gift like no other. The exceptional Argentine has scored 55 career hat-tricks for club and country. All of the hat-tricks in club football for Messi have come while playing for FC Barcelona.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on khelnow.com


Who is best header in football?

Top five players with the best headers in the world
  1. Cristiano Ronaldo.
  2. Sergio Ramos. ...
  3. Olivier Giroud. ...
  4. Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Ibrahimovic has a knack of scoring great headers (Courtesy: The Indian Express) ...
  5. Edinson Cavani. The Manchester United striker is one of the very few traditional strikers left in modern football. ...
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on khelnow.com


Who is a God of football?

The football game has been graced by some of the most unparalleled talents over the years, but very few of them could be named in contention for the mantle of the god of football. So, who is the god of football? The answer would be Argentinian footballer, Diego Maradona.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on mpl.live


Who is better Messi or Ronaldo?

While Ronaldo currently has more goals overall, Messi has the edge in the scoring department, with a higher season average (39.5 to 35), having hit a high of 73 goals in 2011-12.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on goal.com


How many Hatrick did Messi score?

From Messi's 55 hattricks, 14 of them included at least one penalty. From Ronaldo's 60 hattricks, 31 included one penalty or more. Messi's best season for hattricks was 2011/12 when he scored an incredible 12 trebles.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on footballtransfers.com


Who is faster Messi or Ronaldo?

Ronaldo is a very fast footballer- but Messi is faster and more agile than him. Messi's body structure is what that helps him to change his pace so quickly and it helps him to change his direction of dribbling without having to bleed away momentum- unlike Ronaldo.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on wheecorea.com


Who has the most hat-tricks in the Champions League?

Most hat-tricks in one season
  • 3 Cristiano Ronaldo (2015/16) 2= Karim Benzema (2021/22) 2= Robert Lewandowski (2021/22)
  • 2= Cristiano Ronaldo (2016/17)
  • 2= Lionel Messi (2011/12, 2016/17)
  • 2= Luiz Adriano (2014/15)
  • 2= Mario Gómez (2011/12)
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on uefa.com


Which player never missed a penalty?

Mario Balotelli

Mario Balotelli might have his moments on and off the pitch every now and again, but as far as penalties go, he's a definite go-to guy—having never missed in his eight attempts.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on bleacherreport.com


Who is the best penalty saver?

Inter Milan's Samir Handanovic is the most successful goalkeeper when it comes to stopping penalties as he has managed to save 38 penalties in his career so far, the most in history. Handanovic is followed by former Italy and Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon who has stopped 30 penalties.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on goal.com


Which player has never got a red card?

Gary Lineker

Lineker's name is one you're probably less surprised to see here. The former England and Barcelona striker was known for being one of football's nice guys, and that's down to his disciplinary record as much as anything else. Not only was Lineker never sent off, but he was never even shown a yellow card.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on mirror.co.uk


What's the longest penalty shootout ever?

On Wednesday night in Sunderland, the world record for the longest penalty shootout ever was set when Washington and Bedlington Terriers went 27 rounds — taking 54 penalties total — after a 3-3 draw in the Ernest Armstrong Memorial Cup.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on the18.com


Who is the God of dribbling?

Lionel Messi - The King of Dribbling - HD.
Takedown request   |   View complete answer on youtube.com