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Surprised it’s not an Australian player from the era when they were pumping 10 past Oceania micronations regularly.

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Never forget Archie Thompson scoring 13 and then getting dropped for the next match

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I think it’s because we only ever played a handful of games and we didn’t have a huge goal scoring machine so most of the time the we’d have things like 6 goals and 5 scorers.

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Ronaldo and Messi have nothing over El Pescadito

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We all know that CR means Carlos Ruiz, thats why Cristiano had to put the his number (CR7) there to not get confused with the real GOAT

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I found his stats to be very interesting, since Guatemala plays in the Concacaf qualifiers he often had the chance to play against very weak teams, and in particular of those 39 goals 5 were for example against Antigua and Barbuda, 5 vs Saint Vincent and Grenadines and 4 against Trinidad and Tobago

And in particular he played against Saint Vincent only once, where he scored 5 goals in what was also his farewell match before retiring at 37 years

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Lewa’s 30 goals in 37 games is impressive given how unimpressive Poland is.

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Yeah but if you look closer Poland is ranked 30 in the FIFA Rankings (I know, but as an approximation it works) and these are the goals and the current ranking of the other teams (I know, they weren’t the same before, but just as a guide):

6 vs San Marino (207)

5 vs Romania (47)

4 vs Armenia (91)

4 vs Andorra (153)

3 vs Montenegro (68)

3 vs Denmark (18)

2 vs Kazakhstan (100)

1 vs Albania (62)

1 vs Sweden (23)

1 vs Hungary (32)

He scored 18 against teams significantly worse than Poland (San Marino, Armenia, Andorra, Kazakhstan) and then other 9 vs teams that are worse even if it’s closer (Romania, Montenegro, Albania).

You play whoever you get to play. Not shitting on him. But Poland being unimpressive is on the context of the Top UEFA teams, but the most goals came vs teams that are much weaker.

And again, not shitting on Lewa, all top players score more on worse teams, so did Cristiano, Leo, Suarez, etc.

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Yeah but Poland being ranked 30th is because of Lewa though. Without him they’d be nowhere near that.

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They still wouldn’t be as bad as the first group. In fact, before he started playing for the NT, Poland was 22nd in 2007, 24th in 2006, 22nd in 2005, and so on… The hovered around 20-30 the decade before him. Their average ranking since 1992 is 35.

So not really. They would be a bit worse on average, and likely wouldn’t have reached their best rankings which were with him. But their “typical team” historically has been significantly better than the most of the teams I mentioned above.

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MLS legend Carlos Ruiz ❤️ he was a baller during my early childhood

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