Xherdan Shaqiri scored a spectacular goal against Scotland, taking his tally in major tournaments to 10.
The Kosovar star has already scored five goals in the World Championships and another five in the European Championships from the six participations he has had.
Shaqiri became the first player to score in the last six tournaments in a row, as no one has done it before him.
However, Transfermarkt has now made a list of the footballers who have participated the most in major tournaments and their goals scored.
The first two names are certainly not a surprise, as they are two names that have written the history of football by winning everything like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
Currently the top is Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored in a remarkable 10 different tournaments starting with Euro 2004. If he scores for Portugal this summer at Euro 2024, he will go to 11. In total he has 22 goals in major international tournaments.
In second position is Lionel Messi who has scored in nine separate tournaments, starting with his goal in the 2006 World Cup. If the Argentine wizard scores in this summer’s Copa America, he will move to 10 tournaments . He has 26 goals in major tournaments for his nation.
In third place is the legend of Ghana, Asamaoh Gyan, who has scored in eight separate tournaments with the Ghanaians, scoring 14 goals.
In fourth position is the blast from the past in Zizinho of Brazil, who scored in seven tournaments with 19 goals.
Then there is another Ghanaian like Andre Ayew who also scored in seven tournaments, netting 13 goals.
Completing the trio in seven tournaments scored, but coming in sixth place is Angel Di María, who has scored in seven separate tournaments for Argentina, but has scored just eight goals in total.
There are about 13 players who have scored in six separate tournaments. However, when we rank the players by the number of goals scored in those tournaments, we place Argentina’s Gabriel Batistuta (23 goals) in seventh, Cameroon hero Samuel Eto’o (21 goals) in eighth, the all-time leading scorer of the World Cup. Miroslav Klose (19 goals) in ninth place and another German in Jurgen Klinsmann completes the top 10 with 16 goals.
Meanwhile, the big star of Kosovo and Switzerland, Xherdan Shaqiri, is in 16th place with 10 goals from six participating tournaments. /telegraph/
