Fernando Peyroteo - The Ultimate Goalscoring Machine

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I don't know if any of you have heard of him, I personally heard about him from one of my friend last week. When he told me some of the stats of this guy I absolutely refused to believe him obviously until later that day when I googled him and to my disbelief everything he told about the guy was true.

So this guy was born in a Portugese colony in Angola in 1918. He played as a forward both for the Portuguese national team and for Sporting Lisbon, where he was a member of the legendary team Os Cinco Violinos (The Five Violins in Portuguese), with Jesus Correia, Manuel Vasques, Albano and Travassos.

Now this is the shocking part, this guy made only 187 career appearances for Sporting Lisbon but managed to score a mighty 331 goals. That is a 1.7 goal per game return. No player in the history of football from Pele, Puskas, Di Stefano, Eusébio, Cruyff, Van Basten, Maradona, Ronaldo to Messi has ever bettered. And the odds are no one ever will. He was truly the ultimate goal scoring machine. He is till date the all time leading goal scorer in the Portugese league ahead of Benfica legend Eusébio.

Goalscoring for Peyroteo was nothing worth talking of. He often scored multiple times in a match. He remains the only player I have heard of who has scored nine times in one match, and eight goals in another. He scored six goals thrice, while scoring five or four goals was nothing out of the ordinary for him.

He was, simply put, the greatest goalscorer. Ever.

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I would give my left nut to see a player of this caliber and consistency in my lifetime.
 
Wow:eek:
Crap league or no crap league, these stats are fantastic. Rooney wouldn't manage it in League 2. That's out of this world, pure and simple.

Tell me, why so few games? Some war? Can't imagine WW2 being the factor since Portugal didn't take much part and him being 31 when it started.
 
Snow said:
Wow:eek:
Crap league or no crap league, these stats are fantastic. Rooney wouldn't manage it in League 2. That's out of this world, pure and simple.

Tell me, why so few games? Some war? Can't imagine WW2 being the factor since Portugal didn't take much part and him being 31 when it started.
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No idea there.
 
On the June 26th, 1937 Peyroteo arrived at Sporting from Angola. In August he was presented to the team and the legendary trainer, Josef Szabo. Peyroteo was 19 years old and had ambitions of launching a career in Portuguese Sport.

On the 12th of September 1937, Peyroteo made his Sporting debut in a exhibition tournament match against SL Benfica, in the Estadio das Salesias. Peyroteo scored 2 goals and Sporting defeated Benfica 5-3.

Peyroteo was the top scorer in the National Championship on 5 occassions. in both 1937/38 and 1940/41 he struck 29 goals. In 1945/46 he hit 37 goals, in 46/47 43 goals, and in 48/49 40 goals.

Candido de Oliveira called Peyroteo "The Goal Machine". in 1942 Peyroteo scored 9 goals against Leca in a match in which Sporting won 14-0. in 1948 Peyroteo scored 4 goals against SL Benfica in a memorable 4-1 victory.

Peyroteo won six league titles and four portuguese cups with Sporting. He was capped 20 times by the Portuguese National Team and struck an impressive 15 goals during the 1940s, an era in which there were no world cups or euro cups.

Peyroteo retired from football at age 31, after he scored a hat trick against Oriental in an 8-0 victory for Sporting. After the game he informed his teammates and the fans about his decision to retire due to personal reasons, which involved financial hardships related to his commerical enterprises.

His last International game came against Spain at the Estadio Nacional on the 20th of March 1949.

Peyroteo became the Portuguese National Team Coach in 1961, and made his debut with a 4-2 defeat to Luxembourg.
In 1966 Peyroteo took charge of the Angolan National Team.

The last years of Peyroteo's life were difficult. part of his leg was amputated after suffering a serious injury in a veterans friendly match which was contested between Portugal and Spain. He died aged 60, and the whole Portuguese sports world mourned his loss as well as all Sportinguistas. He was a great player, a goal machine and a true warrior who was well educated and a good friend to many people.

Peyroteo has the best goal per games ratio in football history 1.67
and is the all time top scorer in the Portuguese league.
 
Snow said:
Wow:eek:
Crap league or no crap league, these stats are fantastic. Rooney wouldn't manage it in League 2. That's out of this world, pure and simple.

Tell me, why so few games? Some war? Can't imagine WW2 being the factor since Portugal didn't take much part and him being 31 when it started.
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Not sure how factual these statistics are but from what I gather he had a 12 year career with an average of 35 games. Duno what those other 233 games were, but Pele played in many other non league games and his record is praised.

Games played with Sporting :
In total: 416 games played/689 goals
In the National Championship: 183 games played/297 goals
 
The Portugese League only had 26 games in the 40s, but the fact he only appeared in (on average) 15 per season is strange nonetheless. Given the fact he was a tank and supposedly the fittest player on the team by far.
 
'Peyroteo began as a big target man, who had a difficult relationship with the ball and motor coordination difficulties'. More Crouch than Pele by the sound of that.
 
So zago33 from the newbies sent me a PM, he wants to mention a Slovakian national player in the same breath as Fernando Peyroteo. His name is Josef Bican born in 1913. Most notably played for Slavia Prague and in his 217 league appearances he scored 395 goals. That's a good goal ratio as well. My math says (correct me if I am wrong) that is 1.8 goals per game. Better then Peyroteo.
 
Hard to compare strikers then and now. Back then the prime responsibility of a team was to score, not defend. You saw multiple games 8-0, 10-4, etc, etc.

Not taking this away but you have to think of things in context.

Thanks for bringing him up! Love me some past history!!
 
Baby Faced Assassin said:
So zago33 from the newbies sent me a PM, he wants to mention a Slovakian national player in the same breath as Fernando Peyroteo. His name is Josef Bican born in 1913. Most notably played for Slavia Prague and in his 217 league appearances he scored 395 goals. That's a good goal ratio as well. My math says (correct me if I am wrong) that is 1.8 goals per game. Better then Peyroteo.
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ask him to, at least, give you an english wikipedia link so we can check out his info

else, never happened
 
marcosdeto said:
ask him to, at least, give you an english wikipedia link so we can check out his info

else, never happened
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If you just write josef bican on google or wikipedia you'll find him right away.
He did have this goal record however his goal tally with other teams lowers his ratio.

He was said to run the 100m in 10,8seconds.
 
beardsleybob said:
The Portugese League only had 26 games in the 40s, but the fact he only appeared in (on average) 15 per season is strange nonetheless. Given the fact he was a tank and supposedly the fittest player on the team by far.
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In the late 30´s the league had 14 games only and several seasons in the 40´s had 16 or 18 games. The 26 games only started when he was about to retire.
 
Baby Faced Assassin said:
Goalscoring for Peyroteo was nothing worth talking of. He often scored multiple times in a match. He remains the only player I have heard of who has scored nine times in one match, and eight goals in another. He scored six goals thrice, while scoring five or four goals was nothing out of the ordinary for him.
He was, simply put, the greatest goalscorer. Ever.

I would give my left nut to see a player of this caliber and consistency in my lifetime.
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Alfonso Alves mate, Alfonso Alves.
 
These ratios put many sunday league goal records to shame. Daym!
 
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