QuoteWhy would he do that? He'll miss the finals next summer if he did.Originally Posted by dr_peepee
ya heard his say this but he was just speculating. i dont think he will quit after this campaign, hes only soon 31. as long as hes playing well and scoring i dont see him quitting. God forbid the day he does, im dreading it.
Why would he do that? He'll miss the finals next summer if he did.
Sorry if this has been posted already, but just realised that among players still playing, Robbie is now the leading international goalscorer in the world - in the past week he overtook Drogba, who is on 47.
4 more goals would take him into the top 10 of all time, and 8 more would see him overtake Gabriel Batistuta and into 7th place of all time. If he keeps playing I'd put money on him achieving that.
Never was indeed!
the man is a living legend, i dread the day he hangs his boots up with ireland.
It's remarkable.
I had the misfortune of visiting another forum during the week where some tool was yapping about him in derogatory terms. It was like watching that Iraqi information minister during the war, carrying on with his position becoming ever more ludicrous. Granted, Keane can be frustrating at times but you'd swear he'd personally insulted some of these people.
Has to be considered Irelands greatest ever player. Unreal scoring record and yeah, I dread the day he goes too.
This isn't quite true. You are getting your statitstics from a table that contains the highest scorer for each individual country, therefore it doesn't include players who are 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. for their countries. For example, Miroslav Klose has 61 goals for Germany, but isn't included on the list as Gerd Muller is Germany's record goalscorer.
It's still a phenomenal record for Keane. 49 goals for a country placed in the toughest qualifying zone, generally around the third seeds mark is a huge achievement. He is right to want to beat the British record also, a lot of people seem to think it's irrelevant. I would certainly take a lot of pride from him outscoring everybody on these two islands...ever!
There are another few ahead of him too, including Stern John!!
Oops, sorry about that! But as you say the point holds.
Well, that's Wikipedia for you! Three different pages have three different totals for Eto'o: 46, 50 and 52. I'm inclined to believe 52 is correct and the other two are just out of date, but the page with 46 prompted my original post.
Stern John is retired, surely?!
Yeah, he seems to be retired since 2009. He shouldn't be in bold on the list.
Robbie has broken through into the top 30 scorers in international football history. With his relatively young age and the fact that almost all of the players above him have retired he can climb further up that table. Hopefully he can find a move that will rejuvinate his club career and keep his game sharp. He has potentially two further campaigns left in him for Ireland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...national_goals
Legend. Top class.
I remember after his debut against Argentina, Niall Quinn in a post match interview said as much that Robbie will not only smash his (Nialls) total but go on to where no player has gone before.
But more important to me is his growing maturity as a player and as a captain.
Who would have thought it?
He has over-taken Bobby Charlton to become England's top goal scorer!!!!!
14 more and he is in the top ten of all time, 58 more......(forget it).
Stern John is not retired, was looking for a club this past year and failed to latch on after picking up an injury I believe. If he plays in the T&T Pro League and gets some call ups for matches against some of the smaller Caribbean teams he could very well score some more.
Not retired, missed a penalty (hit the bar, quite similar to the Macedonian penalty) in injury time today against Senegal that would've given them a 1-0 win and put them within touching distance of Senegal at the top of their group.
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Am looking for old Irish matches on VHS, PM me if you have some and I'll upload them here
As Tina Turner would say Robbie, "you're simply the best".
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
I'd be quite happy if his goalscoring record is never compared to Bobby Charlton's again, although I'd imagine there's a few England players thinking "I have to break Robbie Keane's record" now instead of "I have to break Bobby Charlton's record"!
Bobby Charlton is old-hat. Jon Dahl Tomasson, Zico and Adnan al Talyani are next up for Robbie's rear-view mirror. Yeah, Adnan al Talyani bi**hes!
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