Robbie Keane

UEFA salutes the 50+ club


Robbie Keane (Republic of Ireland) – 62 goals in 134 appearances
Two goals against the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in a UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier in June 2011 took Keane's tally to 51, making him the first player from any British Isles (uh-oh!) nation to achieve a half-century for their country. He added two more against Estonia in the play-offs and continues to be a key man under manager Martin O'Neill. "When I first came into the Ireland squad, Niall Quinn said to me I would get 50 goals, so it's probably down to him," he said.

Robbie has been playing like he is over 50 for a while now :p

Funny clip here

http://www.thescore.ie/robbie-keane-...66059-Sep2014/

Probably his biggest impact of the week

http://www.wsc.co.uk/forum-index/27-...=20&start=1020

Tough crowd..

Costly penalty miss against San Jose as game ended up 1-1.

goal and a fantastic assist last night against FC Dallas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQwGR34ae70w

Keane's goal just after 4.30 on the video? Poor goalkeeping. Is that snow on the pitch?

No. They let off glitter celebrations after each home goal at Galaxy games.

(I presume that's what you're looking at? On the far side of the penalty box?)

http://rtwbytrain.files.wordpress.co...pg?w=225&h=300

That's the one, thanks. And the most Hollywood thing I've ever heard.

Opened and finished the scoring for LA Galaxy last night against New York Red Bulls

That first goal was quality.

forgot to post this here before the game.
LA Galaxy put together a comparison of Keane and Henry's MLS career

So, after the two goals in the game, Keane has scored more than Henry in the MLS, in 36 less games.
http://www.lagalaxy.com/sites/losang..._1200x1200.jpg

That was a brilliant chipper by Robbie.

Henry, a decent enough player in his day, has done well to remain lingering in Robbie's slipstream.

Agreed, great hustle from Robbie for that chipper. Doing a real good job as MVP of that roster.

And in that comparison table, he's the most winningest player.

Henry, like Cantona before him, is not in the Shevchenko, Inzaghi and Eto'o bracket of top strikers, because he flattered to deceive at the very highest level - European and Internationally.

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Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks

Henry, like Cantona before him, is not in the Shevchenko, Inzaghi and Eto'o bracket of top strikers, because he flattered to deceive at the very highest level - European and Internationally.

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Are you kidding?! Cantona of 20 goals from 45 caps, whose footballing days were prior to United's European dominance? Henry was in a different league in European and international terms. Of course he's up there with those others you mention.

Henry won the FFF's 'Player of the Year' five times between 2000 and 2006. He's France's record goal-scorer with 51 goals from 123 caps; won a World Cup and was runner-up in another (where he was also selected in FIFA's 'World Cup All-Star Team'). He's won a Euros and has also won a Confederations Cup. He's won a Champions League with Barcelona and was a runner-up in the competition with Arsenal. He was also runner-up in the 2003 and 2004 FIFA 'World Player of the Year' awards. He was selected in UEFA's 'Team of the Year' on five occasions between 2001 and 2006, and won the European Golden Boot in 2004 and 2005. Just a few of his many European/international awards and accolades, there...

Boring troll is boring. I'm thisclose to deleting the post above.

Danny can't help it Tets.

Ok. Maybe I should have phrased that a little better. That's on me. I didn't mean to say that Henry & Cantona aren't top strikers. I just meant to say that their performances and statistics in the business end of European and Intl football is not up there with players like Ronaldo, Messi, Muller, Inzaghi, Shevchenko and Eto'o.

A microcosm of what I'm trying to say is that Man Utd's European performances, and Cantona's, were subpar before the late 90's. Coincidentally, France, also became a force in Intl football directly after Cantona retired. David Ginola, too, is an example of someone built up to be better than he was thanks to the Premier League's marketing machine. The same applies to their Italian counterparts Ravanelli and Di Canio.

As for Henry, his performances gradually got less influential as club and country progressed further in Intl. and European competition. Unlike Eto'o, Inzaghi and Sheva, he has never had a shining moment in a European or Intl. final.

His most memorable moment in Arsenal's CL final was a disgraceful post-match interview where he derided Barcelona (and bizarrely) Ronaldinho, whose performance greatly eclipsed Henry's. It's one thing attacking an other team in the heat of the moment but his lack of sportsmanship in attacking Ronaldinho was astounding. It was also Arsenal's defensive wall that got Arsenal that far to begin with, not Henry's attacking prowess; he missed several gimmes in that game.

As for his accolades, fair enough, but the likes of Zidane turned it on all the time. Henry didn't. The likes of Francesco Totti haven't accumulated the same accolades for politically motivated reasons.

I won't take it anymore off topic anyways. On a final Robbie Keane related note, good goals recently and hopefully he can carry that form into the Germany game - if he plays, as expected.