Figures for the top five football leagues show that the historic scorers of these championships have retired from the long-running wizard for a long time, except for Argentine star Lionel Messi who not only tops the list of top scorer in the League, but also controls most of her numbers.
In the English Premier League - the most powerful European championship - Newcastle United's top scorer Alan Shearer (retired in 2006) is the Premier League's top scorer with 260 goals, beating England striker Wayne Rooney who scored 208 goals in the Premier League.
As for Messi, he is flying very far in the top scorer in the Spanish league with 433 goals, a big difference from the Portuguese star and his traditional rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 311 goals in the League.
In Serie A, the late Silvio Biola (died in 1996) leads the list of historic scorers for Calcio with 274 goals, a difference of 24 goals from the former Roma star Francesco Totti.
Despite scores of goals scored by the Polish Robert Lewandowski in the German League, he occupies third place in the list of historical goalscorers for the Bundesliga with 221 goals, and a significant difference from Bayern Munich legend Gerd Muller, who retired in 1981 with 365 goals, while Klaus Fischer came second 1988) with 268 goals.
It is noteworthy in the list of the five historic goalscorers in the French league that it does not include any player who is still active above the green rectangle, as the Argentine leader Delio Ones, who retired in 1986 with 99 goals, is ahead of 44 goals, Bernard Lacombe, who retired in 1987.