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Ronaldinho finished the season with a career-best 26 goals, including seventeen in La Liga and seven in the Champions League, and was chosen for the UEFA Team of the Year for the third consecutive time and was named the 2005–06 UEFA Club Footballer of the Year. [47]
A total of over 2,700 goals have been scored in matches across the 22 final tournaments of the men's FIFA World Cup, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs. [1] Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent in 1930, [2] nearly 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup tournaments, [3] of whom 101 have scored ...
When Argentinian forward Messi was reported to have broken the record for most goals for a single club (644 for Spanish club Barcelona), Pelé's former club Santos denied the claim, releasing a statement saying 448 of Pelé's goals scored in friendlies had been uncounted, [30] and arguing that many of the goals came against "the best teams of ...
With 10 goals in 15 games, including a goal against Venezuela in the last game to secure first place, Ronaldo was the South American top scorer in Brazil's qualifying campaign. [173] Prior to the tournament, questions were asked of his weight and fitness, [174] [175] but was declared fit for Brazil's opening match with Croatia. [176]
The FIFA 100 is a list compiled by Brazilian professional footballer Pelé featuring his choices of the "greatest living footballers" at the time of its release. The list was unveiled on 4 March 2004 during a gala ceremony at the Natural History Museum in London, England, as part of the celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de ...
Most goals scored in a football season: 107 – Ernst Wilimowski, 1940–41 [32] Most club goals scored in a football season: 96 [note 12] – Fred Roberts, 1930–31 [33] [34] [note 13] Most goals scored by a defender in a calendar year: 27 – Daniel Passarella, 1976 [37] Most goals scored by a goalkeeper in a calendar year: 21 – Rogério ...
Most goals scored in a single season by an offensive trio in Spanish football history: [85] [86] [87] 131 goals, scored by Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suárez in 2015–16, completed on 22 May 2016. Most goals scored in a La Liga season by an offensive trio: [85] [86] [87] 90 goals, scored by Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suárez in 2015–16
Manuel Francisco dos Santos (28 October 1933 – 20 January 1983), nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡaˈʁĩʃɐ], "little bird"), [3] was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger.