Ronaldo is the greatest goal scorer of all time, but this hit does not define greatness

Attribution to the incessant need to create “algo”; pero the “record” of all times (which are found between comrades for a reason) of more goals in a career that Cristiano Ronaldo saw or he was superior (the Portuguese converts his goal number 760 the 21st of the year; beating the aunt 759 by Josef Bican, o que aún lo mantiene por detraz de la marca de 805 goles de Bican, según se mida), simplemente ne es, digamos … “algo”.

We do not know when Hank Aaron followed Babe Ruth’s record, to be followed by Barry Bonds a generation afterward; o de ver a LeBron James acercándose a Karl Malone y Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, cuando esto suceda. If an art is treated. By its very nature, football does not work as such: it is a big, disorderly and poorly organized sport. Additionally, the balloon has a minor sense of history. (It’s likely that you have more casual baseball fans than his sons Bonds and Mark McGwire; additionally, some women have had men who have been beaten by first-class players: Aaron and Roger Maris. equivalents, a saber, Dixie Dean and Jimmy Greaves?)

So how is the historical record of goals really broken? Permit against what.

First and foremost, this brand is based on the sum of goals scored in games played with selections and clubs in a single career; algo que, siendo sinceros, nadie hacía hasta tiempos recent. Haberlo hecho dede of principle, the football player possessor of the record preview will be a known figure, although it will be mentioned only as a legend and incalculable man that marks tendencies; as is the case of Cy Young, with his 511 victories in the world of baseball, Don Donman with his Test Average of 99.94 in cricket. But that’s not the case. Pregunte por ahí. Hagan a probe between his friends. If there are any who say that Josef “Pepi” Bican was the greatest golfer in the history of football last month, it is probable that there are three options: checo, football historian or a mentor.

Additionally, we have the heck of a lot that the premise behind the record has defects from its point of view. There are also “official” matches (known as League and Copa League matches) at the club level, although there are also all-matched disputants at the international level. Hablamos de sumar manzanas con naranjas. Where is it in a case and not in another? Are we sure that one of our international friendly finalists will compete against the Latvian team, in a lucky March, with a maximum of 10 changes per team, does it have the same weight as a competitive match with a club?

Another important topic is that, in order to record records, we need reliable data that can be compared with accuracy and, in some words, in the tenemos. Consequence of the nature of this sport. There is no centralized authority that maintains historical records, and the professional evolutionary evolution for many years within its characteristic disordered style, has until the decade of 1970 set up a seemingly simple order. And so, without taking into account the minor issues, speeches like wars, political disputes and nationalism, he was intercepted on the truck of the depot.

We analyze the statistics of Bican, the total number of goals scored by life are the following:

– 703, if only we were to score goals in first division and international matches; o

– 703, if only we were to score goals in first division and international matches; o

– 800, if only only market goals with first teams and international compromises; you

– 805, if we pay attention to sites dedicated to the history of football, as is the case of rsssf.com, although he acknowledged that he cares about some dates (which means that Bican could have marked a mayoral figure); you

– 805, if we pay attention to sites dedicated to the history of football, as is the case of rsssf.com, although he acknowledged that he cares about some dates (which means that Bican could have marked a mayoral figure); you

– 5 000, si le creemos al propio Bican, quien probable lo dijo en son de broma.

So far, how many goals have you scored in reality? We are not going to oblige Cristiano to play with more than 80 years for this amount of 5,000 tantos, right? (Although, dicho lo anterior, is probability que lo haga).

Tampoco busquen to FIFA to help us with this dilemma. The respondents are the only ones who record goals in the tournaments organized by the institution: World Cup Football and similar events. And with every reason. Why should the wind blow up?

(Ojo, we do not have the intention to denounce Bican. The check was one of the greatest footballers of his era, figure with the “wunderteam” of the selection of Austria in the decade of 1930 and who, just ahead of the war , laat vaaró a los Nazis y optó jugar con el Pais de sus ancestros, en vez de su tierra natal; pasando gran parte de su carrera en la entonces Checoslovaquia).

Bican no is the only player difficult to compare with objective terms. Pelé, synonymous with goal-setting prose, finds himself in a similar situation. Brazil did not hold a national league until 1971, when “O Rei” held for 30 years. Hasta entonces, había jugado la mayorie de sus league encuentross la vista camiseta del Santos en el campeonato Paulista, circuit circuit de Sao Paulo. Probably, Sao Paulo was the best region in the world in football; without embarrassment, Pelé did not play with some of the main clubs of the country (languages ​​like Flamengo, Botafogo, Gremio or Flamengo) of regular form.

Without embarrassment, it does not mean that Pelé did not face first-level rivals. Apart from the potentials of the state of Sao Paulo, such as Palmeiras, Corinthians and Sao Paulo, also the Copa Libertadores (South American equivalent of the Copa de Europa), the Taça Brasil (national cup in which the distinct regional champions are) and, by supuesto, multiple friends of prestige. If descending a hill of calculus with all the goals of Pelé, it is noted that, in the majority of the Verans, the Brazilian had to turn around the world (for example, the Santos traveled to Europe in the spring of 1963, disputing new encounters in four weeks), although it is part of distinct regional teams of stars and inclusive, plays the principles of its career with the Coast Guard of its countries.

All radar gears and equipment are not summed up for the “official” account (Independently of what is significant); no matter, as well as the people say in Brazil, Pelé queried to the cars with the best of the world and was in the form of hacerlo (For short, so we have a total of 1,283 goals).

All the previous debría bastar to agree on the absurdity of these comparisons based on goal scorers; aunque podríamos ir más allá. We can argue that Bican marked many of his aunts during the Second World War, at the same time as many first-class players performed military service and other superstitious tantrums. Because Pelé, for political reasons, never has permission to die in Europe and compete at this level.

It is not the fault of any of them that he has judged in another era, when the world was different from, apart from, the war and the political disputes that interfered in his competitive environment. All before not diminishing the merits of Bican and Pelé, which belong to the list of the greatest of all the times by right property. Simply put, it is important that we do not use the historical records of goals to arouse the greatness of a footballer. No ten sentido.

Hombre, voy más allá. If there are valid arguments to say that Cristiano and Lionel Messi (who think that the first and most statistical ones can be on a similar level) can be the object of comparisons to be contemporary, the idea itself appears. Cierto, ambos marcan goles en cantidades industriales, ‘n pesar de no ser centrodelanteros natos. Sondeverbod, ¿son Messi in CR7 the best reference parameters? In the last 20 years, no player in the top four leagues in Europe has scored more than 40 goals in league games. Messi and Cristiano logrado him, in three opportunities each. Meanwhile, he converted a minimum of 30 league leagues in 16 seasons, surpassing the rest of the center leagues he played in Europe in the last ten decades. And only two, distinguished between Messi and Cristiano, he lograd in more than one vez.

If you need total goals to certify your goals, please try only. But really is not necessary, is it?

Dejen total historical annotations to other sports. Football is much bigger than the statistics. Do not mention that making comparisons between these distinct epochs represents a much more complicated acquisition.

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