The article is about Raul, but check out the 7th position on the list at the bottom of the page. of course, he won't stay on here for long once the MLS season winds down and europe heats up. For the non spanish speakers, the list is the top goalscorers in the world, both club and country results are included. i wonder what date they use as the starting point though. http://www.realmadrid.com/web_realm...icia.jsp?idnoticia=39565&sec=1&subsec=0&esp=2
There has to be something more to the criteria for that list. For instance, Taylor Twellman and Carlos Ruiz both have 15 goals domestically. It can't be lack of national team goals, because all 9 of Marcelo Delgado's are for Boca Juniors.
It's total goals scored for clubs in international competition, and for national teams, in the last year. Donovan has 9 total... 7 for the United States, and 2 for the Quakes in continental club competitions. Supposedly. I can only find record of him scoring once in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. In other news... MLS needs to sign Wai Lun Au now!!! 10 goals for Hong Kong in the last year! And Hong Kong haven't been shut out all year - this guy must be part of the reason! (Let's conveniently ignore the fact that the best opposition they've faced all year are Singapore, ranked 102nd... and the fact that he probably grabbed a lot of those goals when Hong Kong thrashed Mongolia 10-0 and Guam 11-0...)
i alluded in my post to a starting date. what i assume is that they pick some date as the start of the new "season", some point probably very close to when all the major leagues in europe start. i believe germany started first, and i think italy was one of the last leagues to start. i'm too lazy to look them all up, but i assume that if that date was, say, sept 6, then they would track all club and international tallies worldwide from sept. 6 through the end of the current season, which will end sometime in may. taylor twellman isn't on the list because although he has 15 goals, he has been injured largely through the last quarter of the season (maybe longer, i didn't follow it that closely to know when exactly his first injuries occurred) while donovan has gone through a scoring spurt at the end of the season. i'm just curious what that date is.
Read it again. Taylor Twellman isn't on the list because, although he has 15 goals, all of them were in domestic competition. Donovan's tally is apparently 7 for the Nats and 2 in the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
January 1 - December 31 That CONCACAF champions cup was this summer wasn't it? On the IFFHS website (i'm not lazy) it simply says "The World's Top Goal Scorer 2003." (with an as-of date at the bottom: 10/23) To me this implies calendar year 2003, Jan. - Dec. Otherwise it would say "2003/04," right? Take as further evidence the fact that by this list Raul has scored 6 for Real Madrid, but from September Real has only played 3 games in the CL and Raul, though good, has not been that good. They must include his tally from the latter stages of "last year's" competition, played this past winter and spring. So yeah, with UEFA competitions just heating up and the USMNT off until January 2004, LD should drop way on down this list.
People love to say these kind of things, but the fact of the matter is nobody else scored like that against Cuba...or the Cuba's of the world. Give him a break. Why can't we FOR ONCE be happy that we've got an American who can be recognized as a top scorer in the world....if only for a short time. Why is it so hard to give him his due?
That can't be why he's not on the list, because there's a Boca Juniors player whose goals were all domestic, none international.
No... scoring for Boca Juniors doesn't always mean scoring in the Argentine league. There's the Copa Libertadores, and probably other international competitions that the club was involved in.
because...they are jealous and because they know he's good! they will never admit it though... ALEXIA
That makes (marginally) more sense. I don't really think there's anything to be gained from doing some kind of player comparison on that basis -- Libertadores and the other cups are a high level of competition, to be sure, but it's a completely arbitrary standard that some domestic matches would meet as well -- but I can at least see why they might do it that way.