The main task of a goalkeeper in football is to protect his own goal. Goalkeepers spend most of the match in their own penalty area, but there are also goalkeepers who like to visit the opponent’s half of the field to score a goal. There are few such goalkeepers, but they do exist, and some of them managed to score more goals in their careers than midfielders and even forwards. Today we will look at goals, scored by goalkeepers, and also find out who is the best goalkeeper-scorer in the history of football.

Rogerio Ceni - the best goalkeeper-scorer in the history of football

Rogerio Mouque Ceni spent most of his career in the Brazilian Sao Paulo. This goalkeeper knew how to masterfully take free kicks, and also took penalty kicks flawlessly. During his long career, Ceni managed to score 131 goals. At the end of his career, FIFA recognized Rogerio Ceni as the best goalkeeper who scored the most goals in the history of football. Despite his scoring abilities, the Sao Paulo goalkeeper never managed to become No. 1 for the Brazilian national team due to high competition. But still, Seni sometimes got into the lineup, and in 2002 he managed to become the world champion as part of the Brazilian national team.

Rogerio Ceni became a true legend of Sao Paulo. When he scored a goal, his team never left the field losing. That is why Ceni became the mascot of the Brazilian club.

Rogerio Ceni is an amazing goalkeeper with excellent attacking abilities. For many forwards, scoring 131 goals, as the Brazilian did, is an unattainable goal. If we compare Seni in terms of the number of goals scored with the famous Russian striker Andrei Arshavin, an interesting picture emerges. It turns out that Rogerio Ceni scored more than Arshavin. The Brazilian has 131 goals in his entire career, and the Russian has 130 (as of May 23, 2017). This is the goalkeeper-scorer from Brazil.

José Luis Chilavert – penalty kick master

Goalkeeper of the Paraguayan national team who participated in two World Cups in 1998 and 2002. In addition to his goalkeeper skills, Chilavert was also good at taking free kicks and penalties. During his career he managed to score 62 goals, and for a long time remained the goalkeeper who scored the most goals in football, until he was surpassed in this indicator by Rogerio Ceni. Paraguayan José Chilavert holds two records: he is the record holder for the most goals scored for the national team (8 goals), and is also the only goalkeeper in the history of football who managed to score a hat-trick in one match.

Dimitar Ivankov is the third goalkeeper-scorer in football history

Playing for Levski, Kaiserispor and Bursaspor, Dimitar Ivankov did not like to sit in his own penalty area. He often helped his attacking partners and often scored goals. In total, the Bulgarian scored 43 goals during his career, thereby becoming the third goalkeeper-scorer in football history.

Today you learned that Rogerio Ceni is the goalkeeper who scored the most goals in the history of football. This Brazilian proved to the whole world that even as a goalkeeper you can score more goals than some strikers do in their entire career. You also learned about Luis Chilaverte and Dimitar Ivankov, who occupy second and third positions respectively on the list best goalkeepers-bombers.

Last weekend was historic for all of European football. Stoke City goalkeeper Asmir Begovic managed to score a goal in the first minute. We decided to remember the most famous goalkeepers-scorers.

Bosnian Stoke City goalkeeper Asmir Begovic scored against Southampton in the 12th second of the match. Begovic cleared the ball from his own goal, and the ball flew over Artur Boruc and ended up in the net. This was a good reason to remember prominent representatives a separate football caste - goalkeepers-scorers. These guys are cramped in the cages of their own goal. Therefore, they regularly terrorize fellow opponents. And they become famous for their goals, and not at all for being quality, reliable goalkeepers.

Founders of the genre

Rene Higuita and Jorge Campos. Latin Americans who stood at the origins of active goalkeeper bombing. The whole world knows Higuita thanks to the “scorpion strike”. Campos regularly ran on the field and asked FIFA to grant him the status of "goalkeeper-goalkeeper". He also surprised everyone with his form of parrot coloring. Between them, these reckless goalkeepers-adventurers scored about eighty goals in official matches. Unfortunately, only a small part of them is available on the Internet. At that time, not every match between the Colombian and Mexican championships was recorded on video. But you can still get an idea of ​​the adventures of Rene and Jorge.

The best of the best

Rogerio Ceni and José Luis Chilavert. Legendary goalkeepers who received this status not at all because of their outstanding game in the “frame”. These are the best sniper goalkeepers in the history of world football. Chilavert began to upset his colleagues back in the eighties. In an interview, he admitted that since childhood he had a tight punch. His father always advised him to take advantage of this. Chilavert listened to his parent, and away we go. The Paraguayan began taking free kicks and penalties. The partners objected at first, but then reconciled. Playing for Velez Sarsfield, Chila scored 48 goals. In total, he scored 62 times in his career, eight times in national team matches. But he failed to score at the World Championships.

Chilavert has long been the most prolific goalkeeper on the planet. But the Brazilian Rogerio Ceni eventually surpassed him. Now 40-year-old Rogerio has 113 goals. And he does not intend to stop at this figure! Ceni spent his entire career in only one club - Sao Paulo. And it is not for nothing that it is considered its symbol. One day he set a goal for himself - to become the best sniper with gloves. And he achieved it. The summer before last, Seni made the 100th goal of his career. Meticulous statisticians began to shout: he scored some of the goals in unofficial friendly matches. But it's not that important. The fights took place not on the beaches of Copacabana, but on normal fields. They were held according to the rules of football, spectators, journalists and referees were present. So the complaints are inappropriate.

Little-known goalscorers

Bulgarian Dimitar Ivankov recently retired. For a long time he defended the colors of Levski. He has 37 goals from free kicks and penalties. This is the sixth result in the world. Ivankov played more than 50 matches for the Bulgarian national team, but was unable to score. Yugoslav Dragan Pantelic ended his career in the mid-80s. He has 22 goals, almost all from penalties. He also excelled in matches for the national team. Only ardent fans of Latin American football know who Johnny Vegas and Alvaro Alfaro are. Meanwhile, these guys are among the top ten goalkeeper-snipers in history. But they scored in the not very strong championships of Peru and El Salvador.

Top ten best goalkeepers in history:

1. Rogerio Ceni (Brazil) – 113 goals.
2. Jose Luis Chilavert (Paraguay) – 62 goals.
3. Rene Higuita (Colombia) – 41 goals.
4.Johnny Vegas (Peru) – 39 goals.
5. Jorge Campos (Mexico) – 38 goals.
6. Dimitar Ivankov (Bulgaria) – 37 goals.
7. Hans-Jorg Butt (Germany) – 33 goals.
8. Alvaro Alfaro (El Salvador) – 31 goals.
9. Dragan Pantelic (Yugoslavia) – 22 goals.
10. Vincent Enyama (Nigeria) – 21 goals.

P.S. Many, but not everyone, are familiar with the fact that in the debut match for Dynamo Moscow, the great Lev Yashin missed out on his colleague in the role. This happened in the spring of 1950 in the Caucasus in a sparring match with Traktor from Stalingrad.

P.P.S. In the once popular Soviet film "Goalkeeper", which is based on the story by Lev Kassil, there is a Hollywood pathetic ending: "goalkeeper of the republic" Anton Kandidov on last minute match of the USSR national team with foreign team takes the penalty, then throws the ball in his direction, runs and scores the decisive goal.

Goalkeepers and scorers, although not a new topic, are quite interesting. I’ll immediately make a reservation that you can’t tell about everyone - the history of football knows about a dozen goalkeepers who scored more than 20 goals. But many of them played in rather exotic championships. Peru, El Salvador, Azerbaijan, Vietnam.

I won’t tell you about those who, like Peter Schmeichel, started their career as a field player and scored while playing on the field.

So, the most famous

Football goalkeepers - scorers

Dragan Pantelejic

• Country: Yugoslavia.
• Career years: 1971-1985.
• Number of goals: 26.

Panteleich can safely be called a pioneer among goalkeepers-scorers, if not in the world, then in Europe for sure. If Lev Yashin made a revolution in the art of goalkeeping, starting to play not only within the goalkeeper’s area, but throughout the entire penalty area, then what can we say about a goalkeeper who regularly scores goals?

Pantelejic played in the strong Yugoslav championship, although for the not-so-famous club Radnicki from Niš, spent two seasons in Bordeaux and appeared on the field more than 20 times as part of the Yugoslav national team. He scored in all these teams - he scored 25 penalties and scored once from a free kick.

Hans-Jörg Butt

• Country: Germany.
• Years of career: 1994-2012.
• Number of goals: 29.

This funny thing happened to German goalkeeper- scorer Hans-Jörg Butt.

This goalkeeper played for Hamburg, Bayer 04, Bayern - the list is quite impressive, you will agree. He scored all his goals from the penalty spot, but a couple of facts are still worth noting.

In the 1999-2000 season, Butt became Hamburg's third top scorer with nine goals. He also scored in the Champions League, and exclusively against Juventus. Gianluigi Buffon himself suffered twice from his scoring strikes.

Jorge Campos

• Country: Mexico.
• Years of career: 1988-2002.
• Number of goals: 38.

A unique case in the history of world football - a goalkeeper 168 (!!!) centimeters tall played 130 matches for the national team. Moreover, Campos was the main goalkeeper of the Mexican national team at the 1994 and 1998 World Championships.

He is also remembered for his play outside the penalty area, often with a rather adventurous and striking form, which he himself developed.

He scored his 38 goals from both penalties and free throws. By the way, he failed to distinguish himself for the national team.

Dimitar Ivankov

• Country: Bulgaria.
• Years of career: 1995-2011.
• Number of goals: 42.

Perhaps the least famous goalkeeper on this list. But he - three-time champion Bulgaria and has more than fifty matches for the national team of this country.

He scored all his goals from the penalty spot, but he became famous after the 2008 Turkish Cup final. Kayserispor, for which Ivankov played, played against Genclerbirligi. 120 minutes of regular and extra time ended with the score 0:0.

And the penalty shootout was won by Kayserispor with a score of 11:10, and in this series the opponents struck a total of 28 shots! Ivankov saved four penalties and scored two!

What doesn't happen in football?

Rene Higuita

• Country: Colombia.
• Years of career: 1985-2010.
• Number of goals: 44.

25 years of performing is, of course, cool. But there is only one in the world. A completely crazy game, the corresponding nickname - “El Loco” (The Crazy Man), participation in the guerrilla movement, connections with the drug mafia, imprisonment - this is not a complete list of the adventures of the Colombian goalkeeper.

As for football itself, Higuita will always be remembered for three things - the scorpion kick at Wembley, Roger Milla's "gift" at the 1990 World Cup, which cost the Colombians a place in the quarter-finals and goals scored, which Higuita scored from free kicks and penalties.

Jose Luis Chilavert

• Country: Paraguay.
• Career years: 1983-2005.
• Number of goals: 62.

The goalkeeper is a rock, the goalkeeper is a block, I just want to call him “Chilavertishche”. In addition to his scoring qualities, Chilavert was also remembered for his excellent performance of direct duties.

He is the only one in this ranking who belongs to the elite of the world goalkeeper corps - Chilavert ranks sixth (and first among non-Europeans) in the list of the best goalkeepers of the 20th century. Only Dino Zoff, Sepp Meier and are ahead of him.

As for goals scored, Chilavert is the holder of a number of records - he scored the most of any goalkeeper for the national team - 8 goals, he is the only goalkeeper in the world to score a hat-trick, and, finally, Chilavert has a free kick goal to his credit, scored from their own half of the field.

Just like that.

Rogerio Ceni

• Country: Brazil.
• Years of career: 1992-2015.
• Number of goals: 135.

Showed it too great game in goal, but somehow things didn’t work out for him with the national team - he only took to the field 17 times as part of the Brazilian national team. And although he has gold medal World champion in 2002, he spent the championship on the bench as the third goalkeeper.

But Ceni is a legend of Sao Paulo; he spent his entire career at this club, playing more than 1,200 matches.

Well, the best thing about scoring abilities is the numbers - he is the only goalkeeper in the world who has scored more than a hundred goals.

The stupidest own goal of the year (from the center of the field!) and the goalkeeper's goal - in 3 minutes (video)

There's a lot of crazy stuff going on at the U20 World Cup: a Chelsea defender scored against the Manchester United goalkeeper even though they were on the same England team.

There's a lot of crazy stuff going on at the U20 World Cup: a Chelsea defender scored against the Manchester United goalkeeper even though they were on the same England team. And the goalkeeper from Venezuela distinguished himself, and did everything right.

Own goal from midfield

The England team played the second match group stage against Guinea. For more than a half, the English failed to score, but then they scored two goals in a row: Lewis Cook's goal in the 53rd was an outsider's goal, and they rejoiced at it. And in the 59th, defender Fikayo Tomori and goalkeeper Dean Henderson did something pretty crazy.

The field player, when the Guineans did not put much pressure on him - the screenshot shows that the closest player stopped, and the far one was running in the other direction - he decided to pass the ball hard to the goalkeeper.

The England goalkeeper was outside the penalty area, he could not play with his hands, and he could not reach the ball with his foot.

So Guinea equalized the score, but England could not score more.

Own goal – from 1:22.

Goalkeeper Dean Henderson belongs to Manchester United, but he has not yet played for the main team. He was only recalled from his loan in February 2016: he played for the Stockport County team in League Six, and due to injuries to David de Gea and Sam Johnston, Manchester United had a tense situation with goalkeepers. In the end, we managed without Henderson; he spent the 2016/17 season higher - he played seven matches in the fourth league for Grimsby Town.

The story of Fikayo Tomori is even more interesting: he even played in the Premier League for Chelsea, where he belongs. At the end of the 2015/16 season, Tomori came on as a substitute for Branislav Ivanovic for half an hour against Leicester. The guy with the full name to kill - Oluwafikayomi Oluvadamilola - spent last season at Brighton, who were promoted to the Premier League. It is not difficult to guess the African origin in the name: Tomori has Nigerian roots, and he was born in Canada, and even played one match for the country’s U-20 national team in 2016. But then he was called to the England team, and he switched to playing for national team the country in which he currently lives.

It happened to Tomori in the first match of the World Cup, against Argentina. important story: he was hit by Argentinean Lautaro Martinez, but the referees on the field did not notice the episode. And the video assistant - FIFA tests them at this tournament - reviewed the moment and suggested to the referee that Martinez should be sent off for a foul on Tomori.

Goalkeeper goal

The match was different, but it happened at exactly the same time: World Cup matches in South Korea are held in parallel, in another group, simultaneously with the England-Guinea game, the Venezuela-Vanuatu meeting began. The presence of an island state from Oceania at the World Cup could be considered strange, but the Vanuatu team in the first round three days earlier, until the 90th minute, played a draw with Mexico and lost 2:3 only in the very end. That match, by the way, was refereed by our Sergei Karasev.

Vanuatu's match with the Venezuelan national team turned out much worse: the islanders held out for half an hour, and then the Venezuelans began to score - in the end the score was 0:7.

The most interesting of these seven is the fourth, scored from the penalty spot by Venezuelan goalkeeper Vuilker Fariñez.

Goalkeeper goal – from 0:54

Given the matches started at the same time, the Venezuelan goalkeeper's goal in the 56th minute and the British own goal occurred within just three minutes of each other at the World Cup.

source: “Soviet Sport”

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