It doesn't mean he didn't face top opposition, though. In addition to the powerhouses in Sao Paulo state, like Palmeiras, Corinthians and Sao Paulo, he played in the Copa Libertadores the equivalent of the European Cup , in the Taca Brazil effectively the National Cup, pitting regional champions against each other and, of course, plenty of prestige friendlies. Download a spreadsheet of all his goals and you'll see he was touring the world most summers -- in the summer of , for example, Santos came to Europe and played nine games in four weeks -- as well as playing in various regional all-star teams and even for the Brazilian coast guard early in his career.
The tours and the all-star teams don't count toward his "official" whatever that means total, but as folks in Brazil point out, he wanted to face the best in the world and this was his way of doing it. And that, by the way, is how you get to his famous 1, goal total. This should be enough to convince you of the absurdity of these goals-based comparisons, though you could go further still.
You could point out that Bican scored many of his goals during the second World War, when many top players were serving in the military and other suffered malnourishment. Or that Pele, for political reasons, was never allowed to move to Europe and compete on that level.
It's not either man's fault that he played in another era when the world was different and, on top of that, war and politics got in the way. It doesn't diminish either man's achievement, and indeed both belong among the all-time greats; it's just that you can't use goal rankings to measure greatness. It makes no sense. Heck, I'd go further. While there is an argument to be made that Ronaldo and Lionel Messi who is a few years younger and whose numbers could end up in the same neighbourhood can be compared because they're contemporaries, it still feels silly.
Yes, they score industrial quantities of goals, despite neither being a center-forward. But the best benchmark? In the past 20 years, nobody in Europe's top four leagues has scored more than 40 league goals. Messi and Ronaldo have both done it three times each. Between them, they've scored 30 or more league goals 16 times -- that's more than the rest of Europe's center-forwards combined have managed in the past 20 years.
And just two, other than Messi and Ronaldo, have done it more than once. If you need goal-scoring totals to validate their respective greatness, try that on for size. But you really don't, do you? Leave lifetime scoring totals to other sports. Football is far greater than that.
Not to mention far more complicated to compare across eras. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Ronaldo and the all-time goal record: Why scoring isn't the ultimate measure of greatness. En-Nesryi to Man City? January moves that could fix what's wrong at Europe's biggest clubs. Other ideas could include a marathon of consecutive games from a certain sport or team, perhaps tied to the day the games were actually played, or a collection of games and events tied to a certain holiday, such as best Memorial Day baseball games, according to people familiar with the matter.
Event programming will continue to be supplemented by ESPN live studio and news programming, plus original shows and films. While the network would like to move up "any original content project that we can," Magnus said "The Last Dance" hasn't been completed yet, so ESPN has to wait until the documentary is finished to set a new air date.
The Jordan documentary is scheduled to be a part series that has promised to tell the "untold stories of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. At times, like in the second period Tuesday, they dominate the play, tilting the ice and creating a ton of chances. We got to take one game at a time and focus on winning.
Defensively, the Kraken have done well to limit shots and chances against. Again, they need their goaltenders to come up with big saves more than they are because those scoring chances are turning into goals against. Jordan Eberle has been working and scoring for Seattle.
Eberle now leads the team, and Wednesday at practice he was on a line with McCann and Jaden Schwartz. The three played well together in the preseason and at the start of the season. Seattle will need that line to produce over the homestand. The gap between losing and winning is not a chasm but rather a crack for Seattle, and the Kraken have yet to consistently close it.
We all have to push and be a little bit better to get across the finish line. Follow AndyEide. Kraken Mike Lefko Lefko: New challenge for Seattle Kraken — hold onto a lead If there has been one glaring weakness and reminder that the Seattle Kraken are an expansion team, it lies in the fact that they are still learning how to win.
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