Falcao 10th best player of the 21st century | THE UNIVERSAL

ANDn this time when sports competitions are stopped by the coronavirus pandemic, statistics and comparisons emerge.

Yesterday the historical list of the 40 best players of the 21st century was known and Falcao García appears on the list as the first Colombian. And it is that the cold statistics return to put the ‘Tiger’ samarium in positions of privilege, even over brilliant national and international soccer figures.

Falcao is also the historical scorer of the Colombia National Team. The forward of the Turkish Galatasaray appears in the list of the 40 best players of the 21st century, published by ProFootballDB, the largest statistical database for the analysis of players who, using the ELO classification system, in charge of calculating and measuring the skills of a certain sport (in this case games played, goals, assists, among others), located the Tiger closing the top-10 of the ranking.

Falcao, the only Colombian to appear on the list, is tenth with a score of 95 out of 100, after scoring 316 goals and putting 40 assists in 575 games, the database indicates, only being surpassed by figures such as Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo , Thierry Henry, Luis Suárez, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Harry Kane, Mohamed Salah, Neymar and Robert Lewandowski. In addition, the box highlights that the attacker samaria, considered the best 9 in the world in 2012 by coaches such as Pep Guardiola and Fabio Capello, is the fourth largest generator of scoring with an average of 0.62 goals per game behind Messi, Suárez and Kane.

The list of the best is led by Argentine Lionel Messi, from Barcelona, ​​with 100 ELO points. He records 697 goals and 273 assists in 857 games. It is the only one that exceeds the goal-generating average (1.13).

Then comes Cristiano Ronaldo, from Juventus, who reaches perfection with 100 ELO points. With a thousand games, he has scored 725 goals and 177 goal passes.

The study data was collected from January 1, 2001 to date. The report clarifies that soccer players such as Kaká, Zinedine Zidane or Andrés Iniesta, who despite “having had a superlative performance”, statistically do not reach the level of those who are included.