Forward, he is a striker, he is a striker - a football player who is closest to the opponent’s goal. Many of them are even heard by those who do not follow the football news.
10. Gunnar Nordal | 661 goals
A football player from Sweden with a powerful physique received the nickname "bison". With a height of 180 cm, he weighed 95 kg. In one of the games for the national team of “Milan”, he dragged the defender of the Neapolitan team, who grabbed his shirt with a death grip, and scored a spectacular goal. The stopping distance of the defender was 30 meters. Nordal's football career began in 1940. The guy played for his native “Degerfors”. 4 years later, he signed the first official contract with the Norrköping club. He played for the Swedish national team from 1944 to 1949. Four times became a champion. After the victorious London Olympics, Gunnar Nordal joined the Milan team and for five years became the champion among the scorers of this club, scoring 210 goals in 257 matches. The last two seasons he played in “Rum”.
9. Imre Schlosser | 679 goals
In the years 1910-1920 was considered a star of world football. The Hungarian striker began his professional career at the age of 16 and soon gained the glory of a thunderstorm of European goalkeepers. From 1906 to 1927 he played for the native national team of Hungary “Ferencvaros” and 13 times became the champion and twice winner of the Hungarian Cup (in 1913 and 1927). Among national team forwards, he held the championship for 30 years. Since 1911 he was considered the top scorer of the European leagues. He finished his football career at the age of 39, playing for the Austrian club Wiener SK (Vienna). For a long time he continued his sports activities as a coach.
8. Ferenc Puskas | 729 goals
Hungarian striker loved football from an early age. His father played for the local Kishpest team, and brought up a worthy replacement. In 1943, Ferenc Puskas began his journey into big football. At 18, he made his debut with the Hungarian national team, playing against the Austrian national team. As a patriot of his country, he refused to play for the Italian Juventus. He played for the Honved army club for a long time, scoring 50 goals in a season, winning the title of the top scorer in the Hungarian championship and the nickname “unstoppable major”. In 1952, he became a champion in the Olympic team. After a popular uprising in October 1956, the team ceased to exist, and Puskas began to play for Real Madrid and became the top scorer in the Spanish League.
7. Zico | 857 goals
At the age of 12, Zico came to the Brazilian Flamengo football school. Then the coach, looking at the small skinny football player, almost put an end to his career. However, the young and ambitious Ziko gave his word that he would prove to himself and dope that he was worth something. Hard training not only on the field, but also in the gym gave their results. In 1971, when he was 18 years old, he joined the main team of Flamengo. He played at lucky number 10, performing magnificent individual passes, giving accurate passes. He had phenomenal dribbling and a great kick from both legs. It is still called the “White Pele”.
6. Joseph Bitsan | 805 goals
A Viennese footballer with Czech roots is known to football fans under the short name Pepi. This is the fastest football player of the 30-50s. He could play equally well on any of the five forward positions, distinguished by his solo passages, which the entire stadium was waiting for during the game. He played for the teams “Rapid” (Vienna) and “Slavia” (Prague). He began his professional career in 1931, having made a brilliant debut and scoring three goals in the game, and Pepi scored the fourth goal with a broken arm. “Rapid” beat the players of “Austria” with a score of 5: 3. After 4 years, Bitsan became the champion of Austria. More than 800 goals scored by him only in official meetings. Therefore, he is often called the unrecognized king of football.
5. Eusebio | 886 goals
He truly can be called the legend of the Portuguese national team. For speed, a strong, accurate blow, fans nicknamed him the “Black Panther”. As a boy, Eusebio dreamed of football and disappeared for days on the street, chasing a ball assembled from newspapers and socks, with amateur players like him. He dreamed of getting into the Benfica football club. And his dream came true. In 1961, Benfica gave a young African guy a lucky ticket to the world of big football. In its composition, he participated in 715 matches, and scored 727 goals. At the same time he played for the Portuguese national team. Eusebio is one of the most titled footballers in history. In 1965 he was recognized as the best football player in Europe, and later he twice won the Golden Boot.
4. Romario | 1045 goals
Because of his height (169 cm), the Brazilian striker was nicknamed “shorty”, but this did not stop him from becoming the 1994 world champion, one of the best forwards and entering the history of football, scoring more than a thousand goals. At the age of 19, he first played for the adult team “Vasco da Gama”, where he showed what he was capable of. The most striking was the 1988 season. For 38 games, he scored 28 goals. Thanks to such indicators, he was taken to the Brazilian national team. From 1988 to 1993, he played for the Dutch club PSV Einhoven and scored 128 goals in 140 games. For high performance, the coaches forgave him for laziness and whims. He could stand on the field most of the match, pretending to be tired of the game, but as soon as his foot touched the ball, the opponent immediately received a goal into the goal.
3. Gerd Muller | 1218 goals
The German striker in the homeland is proudly called the scorer of the nation. The difficult childhood of a teenager from Bavaria turned out to be a preparation for a brilliant football career. Gerd first played for the hometown team, giving amazing results in the championship - 54 goals in 30 matches. From 1964 to 1979, he played in the main team of the “Bavaria”, literally pulling it on his feet in the “golden period”. Not without his participation, the team won the European Champions Cup three times. Twice the top scorer of the championship of Germany, twice the winner of the “Golden Boot”, he was so obsessed with his mission: to score goals that he did it from any position and any part of the body.
2. Pele | 1289 goals
The king of football set a record for the number of championships won, was three times titled the title of best player in the world championships. The Pele phenomenon is not fully understood. It is only known that one of the best Brazilian forwards had a wide angle of view and high speed of movement around the field. Despite his giftedness, Pele was a real workaholic, so he honed his natural gift at many hours of training. He subtly felt the game and was a real strategist. Not for nothing he was nicknamed the grandmaster of the pass and the transfer. Pele spent almost his entire career at Santos. This club celebrates “Pele Day” on November 19, dedicated to the thousandth goal scored by a football player.
1. Arthur Friedenreich | 1329 goals
The absolute champion in goals scored, a mulatto with green eyes, began his career when he was not yet 17 years old. He was shy of his mixed origin, so he tried in every possible way to straighten dark curly hair and make the skin several shades lighter. He played at the club of German immigrants under the name "Germany" since 1909. Subsequently, he changed many clubs: “Impiranga”, “Americana”, “São Pula,” Flamengo, and everywhere showed good results, for the style of his game he received the nickname “Tiger”. He owns the “golden goal” scored by the Brazilians of the Uruguayan national team in the final of the South America Championship in 1919. He won the title of top scorer of the Paulista League nine times.