![[OC] Most international goals without winning a World Cup](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/dmt9q6c2osrg1-1536x1136.png "[OC] Most international goals without winning a World Cup")
Word cup is coming so why not. Used Ai to created this and I am shocked to see Neymar in this list.
Data sources: Wikipedia (List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals), FIFA official records.
Tools: Data collected and cross-referenced using Mulerun, visualized with Python/matplotlib.
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Data sources: Wikipedia (List of men’s footballers with 50 or more international goals), FIFA official records.
Tools: Data collected and cross-referenced using Mulerun, visualized with Python/matplotlib.
At some point it’s not about the player anymore it’s about the team around them
we need the expanded list to like 100th place lmao
I could see Ronaldo or Neymar getting off the list this summer.
Ok, but it is slightly deceptive. The players from Asia often play professionals against amateurs. You cannot put top football nations players together with Asian players.
This is an unfathomably junky viz. Scoring lots of goals for your country has no relation to winning a world cup. Scoring lots of goals at world cups has something to do with winning a world cup. Ali Daei was a player who played mostly in weaker leagues and scored goals for Iran exclusively against mediocre and weak opposition and plays for a nation that has never won a world cup and won’t win one in the next 20+ years. Same with all the other Asian and African players on the list.