adminMiroslav Klose (88) and the Netherlands’ Ruud van Nistelrooij (87).
According to IFFHS, which chronicles the history and records of association football, the 2006 and 2009 African Footballer of the Year, scored 54 goals in 85 caps ahead of Argentina’s Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 12th and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), 13th, with 66 goals and 69 respectively.
The second African to be ranked in the Top 5 is Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o with a total of 84 goals in international matches and competitions.
The top scorer of the 21st century was determined by adding the annual goals in meetings and competitions listed since 2001, which had already been taken into account in annual rankings.
The “Top 102” is composed of 55 different nationalities, with the most successful international goal scorers of the 21st Century coming from Brazil (7), Argentina (7), Germany (5), England (5), Netherlands (5) and Spain (4).
The “Top 101” is made up of 50 Europeans, 20 South Americans, 14 Asians, 10 Africans and 8 Central and North Americans. — SuperSport.com.
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