Man this list cracked me up: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2082099-ranking-brazils-20-greatest-strikers-of-all-time/ After reading a ton of World Cup coverage today - it's like today was the day for US web sites to unlock all their content - I came across this and it took me a while to realize it was serious. Then there was the dude in the comments saying "Where's Elber". Not sure if he was making fun of the list or what.
It's Bleacher Report, that's what you'd expect. It's amazing some other major news outlets actually link their stories to their site sometimes (cough cough CNN). On another note, I was asked in the rivalry thread what are our 5 greatest WC strikers. I said: 1. Ronaldo 2. Romario 3. Vava' 4. Leonidas 5. Careca Mind you I am not counting Pele' or other AMs as strikers. What do you think ?
That list is ridiculous and I expect nothing less from bleacher report. I'm with Celito that the likes of Pele isn't a striker. Ademir or Careca are interchangeable for top 5.
Check out these predictions from some credible 'experts.' Jason LaCanfora? A football guy that happens to like soccer allows him to publish his opinions? CBSSports.com's full 2014 World Cup predictions http://www.cbssports.com/world-cup/...cbssportscoms-full-2014-world-cup-predictions They all have Brazil winning it, which makes me nervous....
First I´d like to agree that the list is partly ridiculous mainly due to that Zico is completely left out and since it is not only considdering WC. My definition of striker is simply the ability to score goals so I definately include the great scorer that Pele was. A number of years ago I tried to make a list, to rate the Brasilian goalscorers through the different eras from 20s to 00s I also tried to sum up this to an all-time list. but I must say it is very difficult to compare players from different eras, especially the early times, and individuals in a team sport like football. I can show You the list but I must say that when I watched it now I started thinking of revising it, possibly lowering Leonidas and Ademir slightly. 1. Pelé 2. Leonidas 3. Ademir 4. Romario 5. Ronaldo 6. Friedenreich 7. Quarentinha 8. Feiticio 9. Teleco 10.Zico 11-20 Vava Reinaldo Tostao Coutinho Careca Nilo Braga Pirilo Carvalho Leite Heleno Freitas Altafini I can agree with the list of Celito, when considdering WC and WC playoffs when comparing Romario and Ronaldo, I would always put Romario ahead as pure striker, skills in area , and his stats show this but when it comes to importance of scoring in wc playoffs and Romario´s lazyness in other aspects of game I can agree with Ronaldo ahead.