The most beautiful thing in football is the ability to achieve glory by winning trophies. That's hard to ask for, though, even for some of the game's greatest goalscorers.
Tottenham Hotspur legend Harry Kane is the top scorer in European football without a trophy since 2000. The Englishman has not lifted a trophy since starting his career with Spurs. He has scored 340 goals in his career but is yet to win his first title.
Second on the list is Antonio Di Natale. The former Udinese star scored 258 goals in his career but failed to win any titles before retiring in 2016.
Vedad Ibisevic played for Schalke O4, Stuttgart and Paris Saint-Germain but failed to win a trophy before retiring in 2021. The Bosnian striker scored 184 goals before retiring. Another player who has scored more than 100 goals in his career but has yet to win a trophy is Dimitri Payet. The former West Ham United star has scored 148 career goals but he's had no luck with trophies so far.
Here's the full list of the top 10 goalscorers in their careers without winning a title since 2000:
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It's been a record-breaking night for Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane as qualifying for the 2024 European Championship begins on Thursday.
Already the top scorer in international men's football, Ronaldo, 38, now has more international appearances than any other male player after finishing 197th in Portugal's 4-0 win. Front of Liechtenstein.
The former Real Madrid and Manchester United forward marked the occasion by converting a penalty and scoring another in the second half to make it 120 in international matches.
Meanwhile, Kane has become England's all-time top scorer when he successfully scored a first-half penalty in a 2-1 win over Italy. Kane has scored 54 goals for his country, one more than Wayne Rooney. Euro 2024 qualifying, which will take place in Germany, begins three months after the end of the World Cup.
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Call it belated revenge for England.
The meeting with Italy in Napoli is a repeat of the Euro 2020 final won by the Azzurri at Wembley Stadium. Since then, the two teams have met - twice, in fact, with Italy claiming a win and a draw in last year's Nations League qualifiers.
This time, England were firmly in control after first-half goals from Declan Rice and Kane, who concealed a kick awarded after a VAR review after identifying Italian defender Giovanni Di Lorenzo touched the ball while trying to prevent Kane from touching the ball. corner. Argentina-born striker Mateo Retegui, who has Italian citizenship through his grandmother, pared back the goal on his debut and England played with 10 men in the 80th minute after the left-back Luke Shaw received two yellow cards over a period of 54 seconds .
North Macedonia beat Malta 2-1 in the remaining match in Group C, which also includes Ukraine.
EASY FOR PORTUGAL
Roberto Martinez got off to a good start in his tenure as Portugal coach after letting Ronaldo start against Liechtenstein.
The striker was left out of Portugal's final World Cup match but was picked alongside Joao Felix - and reciprocated the confidence in him by Martinez, who stepped down from the Belgian role after tournament in Qatar.
Joao Cancelo and Bernardo Silva scored against Ronaldo's Lisbon double. Also in Group J, Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Iceland 3-0, while Slovakia and Luxembourg drew 0-0.
HOT at PARKEN
There was a deep feeling when Denmark and Finland met in their opening Group H qualifying match at Parken Stadium.
The last time the two teams met was at Euro 2020 and it was the match - on the same venue - when Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed after a heart attack.
Nearly two years later, Denmark won 3-1 thanks to striker Rasmus Hojlund's hat-trick in his first international appearance.
Slovenia beat Kazakhstan 2-1 and Northern Ireland beat San Marino 2-0. FRIENDLY RUSSIA
For the first time since it invaded Ukraine, Russia played a football match against a country outside the borders of the former Soviet Union.
The 1-1 draw with Iran in Tehran came in front of 78,000 spectators and comes after months of Russia seeking closer ties with the Asian Football Confederation. Russia has been banned by UEFA from qualifying for Euro 2024.
Both goals came from the penalty spot. Iran striker Mehdi Taremi canceled the opening match of Anton Miranchuk, one of the selected players in a team entirely in Russia. Russia faced Kyrgyzstan, winning 2-1, as well as 0-0 against Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
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