The Experts’ Top 20 Goals of All Time
By: Bob | July 9th, 2007Tis the season to make lists. World Soccer magazine has joined in the fun by conducting a global poll of experts to determine the best teams of all time, the best games in history, and the best goals ever scored. The unidentified experts in this case actually do a pretty good job with their selections. Instead of just looking at names on a list, let’s do something crazy like watch videos of the names on the list doing the thing that put their names on the list to begin with. Here’s a look at the top 20 goals of all time according to World Soccer’s experts.
1 Diego Maradona
54mins, Argentina 2 England 1,
World Cup quarter-final,
Azteca stadium, Mexico City, June 22, 1986
2 Marco Van Basten
53mins, Holland 2 Soviet Union 0,
European Championship Final,
Olympic stadium, Munich, June 25, 1988
3 Zinedine Zidane - Real Madrid v Bayer Leverkusen 1,
Champions League Final,
Hampden Park, Glasgow, May 15, 2002
4 Saeed Owairan
5mins, Saudi Arabia 1 Belgium 0,
World Cup first round,
RFK stadium, Washington DC, June 29, 1994
5 Pele
55mins, Brazil 5 Sweden 2,
World Cup Final,
Rasunda stadium, Stockholm, June 29, 1958
6 Archie Gemmill
68mins, Scotland 3 Holland 2,
World Cup first round,
San Martin stadium,
Mendoza, June 11, 1978
7 Carlos Alberto
87mins, Brazil 4 Italy 1,
World Cup Final,
Azteca stadium, Mexico City, June 21, 1970
8 Ferenc Puskas
22mins, Hungary 6 England 3,
Friendly,
Wembley, November 25, 1953
9 Diego Maradona
63mins, Argentina 2 Belgium 0,
World Cup semi-final,
Azteca stadium, Mexico City, June 25, 1986
10 Lionel Messi
28mins, Barcelona 5 Getafe 2,
Spanish Cup semi-final first leg,
Camp Nou, Barcelona, April 19, 2007
11 Ricky Villa
76mins, Tottenham 3 Manchester City 2,
FA Cup Final, May 14, 1981
12 Ryan Giggs
109mins, Manchester United 2 Arsenal 1,
FA Cup semi-final, April 14, 1999
13 Rivaldo
89mins, Barcelona 3 Valencia 2,
Spanish League, June 17, 2000
14 Dennis Bergkamp
90mins, Holland 2 Argentina 1,
World Cup quarter-final, July 4, 1998
15 Esteban Cambiasso
31mins, Argentina 6 Serbia & Montenegro 0,
World Cup first round, June 16, 2006
16 Michael Owen
16mins, Argentina 2 England 2,
World Cup second round, June 30, 1998
17 Roberto Baggio
78mins, Italy 2 Czechoslovakia 0,
World Cup first round, June 19, 1990
18 George Best
84mins, Manchester United 2 Sheffield United 0,
October 2, 1971
19 Gerd Muller
106mins, West Germany 3 England 2,
World Cup quarter-final, June 14, 1970
*Anybody able to track this one down?*
20 Helmut Rahn
83mins, West Germany 3 Hungary 2,
World Cup Final, July 4, 1954
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Thanks for hunting down those goals, Bob. Lately I’ve been elevating that Zizou goal on my own personal list that exists solely in my head.
When in the video Zizou freezes at the top of the box, waiting…waiting…for the ball to come down…crack! It’s as if he saw the goal materialize the minute the cross left the ground.
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Ireland
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#14 team overall and #7 club team. Not too bad for those ‘67 Celts, eh?
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Ireland -
I think I got that England - Germany match with the Müller goal recorded on DVD. I’ll see if I can rip it and then I’ll make a big fuss about it on the Bundesliga Blog.
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I saw a George Weah goal on youtube, when he played for Milan where he litterally got the ball at the corner flag and dribbled the entire length of the field. It may have been against another serie a team that had been bought off and not a world cup or european final, but i still think that it rates a spot on your list.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MMnR1QM5Te4&mode=related&search=Also, Bergkamp’s goal against Newcastle might be the best example of that kind of goal ever.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xLysnidD5tEPosted from
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Sorry, this list is BS. I wont say this is the best ever, but it should be among the top 5, and it’s not anywhere in this crappy list, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDakJ9xCK-g
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these lists are tough to make too many good goals.
One of my favorites in recent history
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZHEh4UAAwxM
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United States
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