Germán Ezequiel Cano unleashed the madness in Fluminense and is the scoring sensation of Brasileirão 2022. The Argentine striker scored a hat-trick this Saturday against Sao Paulo and reached 24 goals in the tournament, ratifying the first place in the scorers table in the absence of two days to the end of the season, which consecrated early champion to Palmeiras.
Cano is the Fluminense striker with the most goals in a year, reaching 42 goals in all competitions in 2022. Even counting club and national team matches in the world, Germán Ezequiel is the third top scorer on the planet, only surpassed by Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland.
In addition, with his 24 goals in the Brasileirão season, Germán Cano took away a record held by Víctor Hugo Aristizábal 19 years ago.
The Argentine became the foreign player who scored the most goals in a Brasileirão season, a record that Aristizábal had with 21 goals in the 2003 season.
The record that ‘Aristi’ had was achieved with Cruzeiro, although he was not the top scorer in the Brazilian league. However, he had not been surpassed despite the fact that figures such as Carlos Tévez (20 goals in 2005), Marcelo Moreno Martins (15 in 2014), Hernán Barcos (14 in 2012), Sebastián Abreu (13 in 2011), were behind the Registration.
