{"id":39041,"date":"2020-04-10T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39041"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:37:52","slug":"ali-daei-tops-10-highest-all-time-goal-scorers-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/04\/10\/ali-daei-tops-10-highest-all-time-goal-scorers-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Daei tops 10 highest all-time goal scorers list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran forward Ali Daei topped the list of the 10 highest international football goalscorers of all time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian set the record before retiring from international football in 2006, calling time on a 13-year career where he thrived for his country, FourFourTwo reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 1993 and 2006, Daei scored 109 goals in 149 internationals. Twice he scored four in a game, against South Korea in the 1996 Asian Cup, then Laos in a qualifier for the 2006 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He failed to score in two World Cups but assisted the goal that beat the USA in 1998 for Iran&#8217;s first victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daei played for the likes of Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin in his club career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo is now just 10 goals off the top spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 10 highest all-time goalscorers list is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. Sunil Chhetri, India (115 caps, 72 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Bashar Abdullah, Kuwait (133 caps, 75 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Pele, Brazil (92 caps, 77 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Zainal Abidin Hassan (138 caps, 78 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Hussein Saeed, Iraq (137 caps, 78 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Godfrey Chitalu, Zambia (108 caps, 79 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Kunishige Kamamoto, Japan (84 caps, 80 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Ferenc Puskas, Hungary (85 caps, 84 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal (164 caps, 99 goals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Ali Daei, Iran (149 caps, 109 goals)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran forward Ali Daei topped the list of the 10 highest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,142,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1861,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39043,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39041\/revisions\/39043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}