He is 35 years old, he is an Argentine nationalized Colombian and plays in the fluminense. This past Spanish dawn this striker of the Brazilian team in which the ex-madridista plays Marcelo achieved a historic ‘hat trick’ against River Plate in the win against the ‘Millionaires’ in the Copa Libertadores (5-1). The media quickly focused on him, among other things because with that trio of goals (some celebrated with Marcelo style of Cristiano Ronaldo) reached Erling Haaland as the world’s top scorer this year 2023.
Bears the striker born on January 2, 1988 in Argentina 23 goals in this calendar year, the same as the Norwegian ‘killer’ of the Manchester Cityalthough with the particularity that Spout He has achieved it in 21 games, for 23 Haaland, that is to say two less than the Norwegian. In third position of this particular ranking is another monster from the area, the forward of the Real Madrid Karim Benzema, who has 21 in 24 games. Already more something more distant they are in Europe Rashford (Manchester United), with 18; mbappe (PSG), with 17: : osimhen (Naples) and Jonathan David (Lille), with 16: dallinga (Toulouse), in-Nesyri (Seville) and Harry Kane (Tottenham), with 15.
It is enough to review these names to understand the dimension of what it is doing German Canoa footballer who made his professional debut with lanusbut who had a discreet step through Argentine soccer. Colombia, Mexico and Brazil It is where he has developed a large part of his professional career, being in fluminense where he has uncovered his enormous scoring ability.
Apart from rubbing shoulders now with Haaland, the forward broke many records in the year 2022 with his current team. He was top scorer Brazilian Championship, being the second foreigner to achieve it after Pedro Rocha in 1971. There were 26 ‘targets’ that he achieved, also the best record in the tournament since 20 teams have played it. The previous one had it ‘Gabigol’ since 2019, with 25. Across all competitions, he scored 44 goals this season, surpassing in Brazil the 43 of ‘Gabigol’ in 2019 and neymar in 2012. Worldwide only kylian mbappe was above. A real discovery in Europe despite being 35 years old.
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