The Top 10 Strikers in La Liga – Part 4
Continued from Part Three Of The Article.
Diego Forlan is thirty one years old right now and has the opportunity to make a lot of money with a move to the European giants. Most football pundits believe that if ever this move was to be made, then right now is the time, right after the World Cup exploits.
One thing that should be clear is that Diego Forlan is more than happy at Atletico Madrid and is still excelling in the club and is literally blooming with Vicente Calderon and Aguero.
Forlan has amazing aerial skills, technique, pace, cleverness in the game, movement and posses a powerful shot. He is a constant threat on the football field and is a contender for the Pechichi trophy in the La Liga.
Gonzalo Higuain: This will be the fifth South American in this list as the player who not only possesses immense potential but has the capability to surpass all his contenders.
He quickly became a goal scoring machine and has netted forty nine balls in the last two seasons.
Most of Higuain’s goals are because of his quick footing, his eye for the goal and his technical abilities. All of this has made him into the creative attacker that he is now.
Gonzalo Higuain became a regular starter for the River Plates when he was only eighteen years old and this convinced Real Madrid to spent thirteen million Euros on this player.
The first two years in Real Madrid were comparatively quiet for the player; he became the main Madrid man and has been for almost two years now. There are continual issues regarding Higuain as he was never completely accepted over the Real Madrid board nor
with the fans but with his constant goal scoring records, everyone stays at bay.
Higuain was even ignored by Diego Maradona for the World Cup squad and was later called only because other players were failing but since then he has become one of Argentina’s best strikers.
He has already scored seven goals in eleven games while playing for his national team and this includes a hat-trick in the World Cup and he is only twenty two years old and will continue to shine for at least another decade.
David Villa: So here is the last name in the list and this spot was not even close to any other player the undisputed best striker in the La Liga is David Villa. He is a player that literally guaranteed goals where ever he went.
It took Villa some time to make it up to the top leagues as he was constantly over looked as he was considered too short!
He hit stardom when he was twenty four years old and moved to Valencia and since then no one has looked back at his records as he proved himself better than almost everyone in the team.
He has pace, brilliant footwork and is considered one of the best finishers in the world.
Right now he is twenty eight years old; he is at the peak of his football career and is a threat to any team that he goes up against.
David Villa scored forty goals in eighty five matches playing for Sporting Gijon and then forty one goals in ninety two matches for Real Zaragoza, a hundred and twenty nine goals in two hundred and twelve matches in Valencia and then has forty four goals
in sixty seven appearances for the Spanish national team.
This made Barcelona buy him for forty million Euros this summer. In retrospect this move should have been made last year when they bought Zlatan Ibrahimovic and this has made David Villa better than him in Barcelona.
The total score has come up to a hundred and forty one La Liga goals and this makes him take the spot of eighteenth in rank of the all time goal scoring list in the La Liga.
The top four spots are with Alfredo di Stéfano with two hundred and twenty seven goals then Raúl with two hundred and twenty eight goals, Hugo Sánchez with two hundred and thirty four goals and then Telmo Zarra with two hundred and fifty two matches.
Right now David Villa plays with Iniesta, Xavi and Messi and these players come as a threat as they are goal scoring machines as well and will cut back in Villa’s top scoring number.
Still David Villa is in rank with the best attackers in the world and his career is only expected to shine in the future.
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