Who scored 100 international goals first?

Legends like Iran's Ali Daei, who was the first football player to score 100 international goals, Ferenc Puskas of Hungary, who boasted an astounding 1:1 goal to match ratio and three-time World Cup winner Pele
Pele
Pelé is the joint-top goalscorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games. At the club level, he was Santos's all-time top goalscorer with 643 goals in 659 games. In a golden era for Santos, he led the club to the 1962 and 1963 Copa Libertadores, and to the 1962 and 1963 Intercontinental Cup.
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also find a place in the roll of honour.
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Who is the greatest international goal scorer?

Cristiano Ronaldo holds the world record for international goals, scoring 118 for Portugal since making his debut in 2003.
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Who is the No 1 player in football history?

Cristiano Ronaldo (Al Nassr & Portugal) (Total Football Goals: 824) 17 Feb. 2023 Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 500 league goal, playing for his club Saudi Arabia club Al Nassr. Ronaldo has the highest football salary in history, worth €200 million per year and has contract till 2025.
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Who is the goat of football now?

Lionel Messi is widely acknowledged as the GOAT of football in the modern era and is also considered by many to be the greatest player of all time or the GOAT in history.
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Who is technically the best football player?

Lionel Messi (PSG)

Messi is the reigning ballon d'Or winner after a stunning final season in Barcelona and after finally lifting a trophy with Argentina. His influence should never be doubted, his talent never down-played.
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Footballers with most goals scored in their first 100 international matches



Who kicked 1000 goals first?

Ablett kicked his 1000th goal against Fremantle at Kardinia Park in 1996, sparking an outpouring of emotion as fans flooded the ground.
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Who scored 1000 goals first?

Brazilian soccer great Pelé scores his 1,000th professional goal in a game, against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium. It was a major milestone in an illustrious career that included three World Cup championships.
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Who is closest to 1000 goals?

The five players to crack 1000 goals were Tony Lockett (1360), Gordon Coventry (1299), Jason Dunstall (1254), Doug Wade (1057) and Gary Ablett senior (1031).
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Who is the king of international goals?

Cristiano Ronaldo | 117 goals| 191 appearances|

The undisputed king among goalscorers in international football, Cristiano Ronaldo tops the chart with a whopping 117 goals in his international career so far.
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Who is the king of world football?

PELE IN FOOTBALL WORLD CUP

Pele has remained the only player to win the world cup thrice. He won the coveted trophy in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and scored 12 world cup goals.
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Who is the fastest to 50 international goals?

Aleksandar Mitrovic has reached his 50th international goal faster than both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, doing so as Erling Haaland was kept off the scoresheet.
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Who scored 92 goals in a season?

Gretzky's numbers from 1981-82 (92 goals, 212 points) get all the attention, but he may have been at his best in 1983-84, when he opened the season by getting at least one point in the first 51 games.
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Who scored 11 goals in one match?

11 goals: Hungary 10-1 El Salvador at Spain 1982

Hungary became the first team to score 10 goals in a football World Cup match when they beat El Salvador 10-1 in Elche at Spain 1982. Six Hungarian players found the back of the net in this group-stage fixture, led by a second-half hat-trick from Laszlo Kiss.
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Who scored 500 goals the fastest?

Wayne Gretzky is fastest, reaching 500 points in 234 games, and Mario Lemieux is second at 287 games. Former Oilers forward Jari Kurri is sixth at 356 games, behind Peter Stastny (322), Mike Bossy (349) and Eric Lindros (352).
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Who was the first to score 800 goals?

Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo has taken to social media to celebrate becoming the first-ever professional footballer to reach 800 career goals.
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Who was the last to kick 100 goals?

Hawthorn and Sydney legend-in-waiting Lance 'Buddy' Franklin was the last to do it, in 2008. The 28 individuals who have kicked 100 goals in a season did so a combined 57 times. Jason Dunstall and Tony Lockett, the game's greatest goalkicker with 1360, each did it six times, Peter Hudson five, Coventry four.
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Who scored the first 100 goals in football?

Ali Daei was the first player to reach 100 international goals.
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Who is the greatest dribbler of all time?

Garrincha

Garrincha was in the same World Cup winning team as Pelé in 1958 and 1962, and was widely regarded as the greatest dribbler ever.
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Who is the best dribbler?

One of the greatest ever to grace the sport, Lionel Messi has made a massive impact on any team he has donned the jersey for and his dribbling skill is the major reason for it. Whether playing for the Argentina national football team or Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Messi produces brilliance in every match.
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Who are the goat?

Greatest of All Time is a term used to describe something or someone who is considered the best in a certain category and frequently used in popular lists of superlatives. It is typically abbreviated as G.O.A.T. or GOAT.
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Who is better than Ronaldo?

Messi is very slightly ahead of Ronaldo when it comes to goals per game; the former has recorded 0.79 goals per game, while the latter has 0.72 goals per game.
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Who is better than Messi?

Ronaldo has scored 701 goals at all club competitions while Messi has 695 – making them the leading goal scorers at club level in football history.
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Who is the legend of football?

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, was the undisputed king of the beautiful game and the only player to have won three World Cups, in 1958, 1962 and 1970.
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