In world football, Italy is undoubtedly a football power, having won the World Cup four times and the European Cup once. Italy has never lacked world-class strikers over the past few decades, but unlike other soccer powers, italy's all-time top scorer has scored few goals, scoring only 35 goals.
The historical top scorer of other football powers has scored at least 50 goals:
Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo, has scored 99 goals
Brazil: Pele, 77 goals
Germany: Klose, 71 goals
Argentina: Messi, who has scored 70 goals
Spain: Villa, scored 59 goals
Uruguay: Sureas, who has scored 59 goals
England: Wayne Rooney, scored 53 goals
France: Henry, 51 goals
Netherlands: Van Persie, 50 goals
The Italian national team's goal record holder is Riva, who scored 35 goals. Riva spent his playing career mainly in Cagliari, where he won the Serie A Golden Boot three times and helped Cagliari win the Serie A title in the 1969–70 season, which is still the only Serie A title in Cagliari's history. In addition, Riva won the 1968 European Championship with Italy, scoring a key goal in the final. In the Italian national team, Riva scored 35 goals in 42 appearances and scored quite efficiently.
Riva ended his international career in 1974 and for the next 46 years he held an unbroken Italian national team goal record. Meazza, who ranked second in the Italian national team's goals list, and Piola, who ranked third, were both active in the 1930s, and Meazza was the fourth most scoring player in Serie A history, and Piola was the most scoring player in Serie A history.
Baggio had hoped to break Riva's record, but baggio, who had a rough national team career, missed several major competitions, including: Euro 1996, Euro 2000, 2002 World Cup, and Euro 2004. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Baggio was away from the national team for many years, and in the end Baggio made only 56 appearances in the national team, scoring 27 goals.
Piero's international career is long enough and he has participated in enough major competitions, but Piero has not scored many goals in major competitions, scoring only three goals in major competitions such as the World Cup and the European Championship: one in Euro 2000, one in the 2002 World Cup and one in the 2006 World Cup. Piero made 91 appearances for the national team, scoring 27 goals and scoring the same number of goals as Baggio.
Inzaghi scored 25 goals in 57 appearances for the national team, and in the late 1990s and early 2000s, italy's best striker blew up, coupled with serious injuries, Inzaghi did not make many appearances in the national team, affecting the number of goals scored.
Vieri scored enough goals in the big tournaments, scoring five goals at the 1998 World Cup and four goals in the 2002 World Cup, but Vieri's international career was not long, and unfortunately missed Euro 2000 due to injury. In total, Vieri made only 49 appearances for the Italian national team, scoring 23 goals.
In addition, in the history of the Italian national team, there is no shortage of short-lived or late shooters. Italian striker Skiracci, who won the Golden Boot with six goals at the 1990 World Cup, only made 16 appearances for Italy and scored seven goals, which is typical of short-lived.
Tony is a late bloomer, who was 27 years old when he made his debut for the national team, made 47 appearances for Italy, scored 16 goals, and Tony's national team career was not long.
In the current Italian team, the player with the most goals scored by the national team is Lazio striker Inmobile, who scored 10 goals in the national team. Riva's 35-goal record for the Italian national team looks set to continue for many years.
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