Oranje’s Top goal machines

September 16th, 2007 | By: Jan | 5 Comments »

Marco van Basten doesn’t select Patrick Kluivert anymore for Oran,e but the 31 year old is still Oranje’s topscorer. The Lille striker scored 40 goals in the orange jersey.

And for the time being, Pat will remain the number one. The first to be able to beat Kluivert is the 31 year old Ruud van Nistelrooy. The Madrid striker has 30 goals and occupies the 6th place. Rafael van der Vaart is making his way into the top 25.

speler goals interlands
1. Patrick Kluivert * 40 79
2. Dennis Bergkamp 37 79
3. Faas Wilkes 35 38
4. Johan Cruijff 33 48
Abe Lenstra 33 47
6. Ruud van Nistelrooy * 30 57
7. Beb Bakhuys 28 23
8. Kick Smit 26 29
9. Marco van Basten 24 58
10. Leen Vente 19 21
11. Marc Overmars 17 86
John Bosman 17 30
Mannes Francken 17 22
Ruud Gullit 17 66
Tonny van der Linden 17 24
Johan Neeskens 17 49
Wim Tap 17 33
18. Jan Thomée 16 16
19. Noud van Melis 15 13
20. Pierre van Hooijdonk 14 46
Wout Buitenweg 14 11
Ronald Koeman 14 78
Rob Rensenbrink 14 46
24. Frank de Boer 13 112
Ronald de Boer 13 67
Wim Lagendaal 13 15

* Still active and still available for Oranje
List includes Albanië-Nederland (0-1) of 12 September 2007.

Look at the goal/match ratio of the ol’ guns… Amazing….

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Comments

By Mario | September 17th, 2007 at 12:43 am

I am sure Ruud will be number one very soon.

By Jan | September 17th, 2007 at 5:24 am

Hmmm, ten goals to go… It seems he could make it actually. I think Van Persie will look at this list and think…hmmm….I’d like some…

Look at the match/goal ration of the old geezers eh?

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By Caleb | September 17th, 2007 at 8:07 am

Yeah, some of those old players sure put in a lot of goals in not very many games. Very impressive. Some even have more goals than games! But then again, there really were strong teams and weak teams back then, so it was easy to pop in 6 or 8 goals against some poor country.

I’m impressed with Faas Wilkes because he has a great goal/game ratio, and he has a lot of goals. I’m not too familiar with old players though, who exactly was he?

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By goose | September 18th, 2007 at 11:20 am

Here we go Caleb:

Faas Wilkes: born 1923 died 2006. Very importent player in dutch footballing history. Was Cruijffs idol. He was the first dutchman to go to a real big team abroad as a pro, Inter Milan. The KNVB trew him out of the national team cause it was all amateurs in those days. He didnt play for Oranje cause of that between 1949-1956!! He couls have scored so much more!

heres some tubes on Wilkes, enjoy:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=A1KIHsP2GhQ

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ADm2_TiNZKA

grtz

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