He confirmed his lack of interest in statistics, and all his focus on helping the national team
Ali Mabkhout overtakes Messi in the list of most international goals scorers
Mabkhout starred in front of Malaysia and scored two goals from the quartet.
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Lima scored two goals in his first official match with the national team.
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The national team's historical scorer, Ali Mabkhout, continued to set records, after he scored two goals, the day before yesterday, which contributed to the victory of "Al-Abyad" against Malaysia with four goals without a response in the seventh round of Group G matches in the double qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the World Cup. Asia 2023, after Mabkhout raised his score to 73 international goals.
The Al-Jazira player advanced to second place globally in the list of players who scored the most goals at the international level, for players who did not retire from playing, whose list is led by Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo with 103 goals, while Ali Mabkhout is in second place with 73 goals, surpassing Argentine star Lionel Messi Yesterday, he scored a goal in the match between Argentina and Chile in the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, to raise his score to 72 goals in third place, equal to the same number of goals with India's Sunil Chhetri.
Ali Mabkhout climbed to the tenth place globally in the list of players who scored the most goals at the international level historically, whose list is topped by Iranian Ali Daei with 109 goals, as the national team striker separates from fifth place six goals, as Zambian Godfrey Shitalu scored 79 international goals, and Iraqi Hussein Hussein Saeed is sixth with 78 goals, the Brazilian Pele with 77 goals is in seventh place, the Japanese Konshige Kamamoto and the Kuwaiti Bashar Abdullah with 75 goals is in eighth place.
For his part, Mabkhout expressed his happiness with the important victory of the national team over Malaysia, explaining that "Al-Abyad" achieved the required of the match by obtaining the three points.
Mabkhout said in a press statement, "We played a good match, and the players made a great effort and achieved the most important thing, which is the victory." ».
The UAE national team's historical scorer stressed that he does not think about achieving records, and said: "My focus is always on helping the team achieve victory, and I do not think about competing for the top scorer title and I do not care about statistics, and my focus is on scoring goals and helping my teammates on the field."
Lima: Al Wasl Stadium helped me score my first two goals with the national team
National team player Fabio Lima expressed his great happiness in playing the first international match at the official level, when he participated against Malaysia, the day before yesterday, pointing out that his happiness was greater after he scored two goals that contributed to the team's victory with four goals without a response.
Lima told "Emirates Today" that "playing at Al-Wasl Stadium also increased my happiness because I preserved the dimensions of the stadium and all its corners, and there is no doubt that it helped me play better and score two goals, especially since I have been playing with Al-Wasl since 2014 on the same stadium."
He added, "I did not focus on scoring goals, and my goal was for the team to win, especially since the match is very important at the beginning of the second leg of the qualifiers, and the team is playing four decisive matches that will determine its fate for qualifying to the third stage of the 2023 World Cup qualifiers."
He added: “We played a very good match, because the competition is strong for the first place in Group G, and we must deal with each match separately, and after we achieved the most important thing by defeating Malaysia, we must start thinking about the next match against Thailand, which will be difficult against a team.” He is competing strongly for the top spot in the same group.”
Lima praised the impact of the fans' return to the stands, and added: "We are very happy with the return of the fans to attend the matches, as it undoubtedly gave the player a great moral boost, and from our side as players, we hope that the support of the public will continue in the upcoming matches, so that we can achieve what we all seek by qualifying for The third stage of the qualifiers.
Mabkhout numbers:
■ He raised his international score to 73 goals, and came second after Ronaldo, who tops the world list with 103 goals.
■ Messi finished third, behind Mabkhout, with 72 goals.
■ Mabkhout is the 10th in the world for scoring the most historical goals.
■ Only five goals separate him from the fifth place for the best international scorers in history.
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