Dayro Moreno, scorer: Beats Neymar, Henry, Rooney, Falcao…

Dayro Moreno is one of the best scorers in the history of the FPC. The attacker, that for this season he returned to Once Caldas, is the player who has won the gold booty the most times with eight distinctions, achieved in Once Caldas (2), Millonarios (2), Atlético Nacional (2) and Atlético Bucaramanga (1). In addition, in his time with Xolos de Tijuana he also ended up as a scorer in Liga MX.

After the end of 2022 and as usual in the first days of the month, The International Federation of Football History and Statistics updated their data and published the list of world scorers of the 21st century. The 37-year-old attacker from Tolima is part of the top 25 thanks to his 224 league goals.

Dayro Moreno surpasses players like the French Bafétimbi Gomis with 265 goals, the Dutch Klaas-Jan Huntelaar with 257, the brazilian Neymar con 255from Bosnia Edin Džeko with 239, the French Thierry Henry with 233the English Wayne Rooney with 231, the Argentine Carlos Tevez with 228, the Uruguayan Sebastián Abreu with 227among other great attackers.

In addition to 17, another Colombian is part of the classification. Radamel Falcao García ranks 54th with 224 annotations and he is also above players like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Dirk Kuyt, Antonio Di Natale, Germán Cano, Robin van Persie, Romelu Lukaku and Francesco Totti.

Scorers of the 21st century according to the IFFHS