5 Champions League winners who are also record goal-scorers for their national teams
The Champions League has always been a prestigious tournament to play in. It gets even better for teams when they are able to win the title. Many top clubs and players have had the pleasure of winning it in their careers.
Among the players to have won the Champions League, there have been some great goal-scorers. These players have done exceedingly well at both the club and national level.
The Champions League always had great quality goal-scorers
It is not an easy task to do well at both the club and country level. With a reputation for scoring goals time and again, there is certainly an immense level of pressure to live up to.
Yet some legendary players have done so with utter ease. In the process, they have won the Champions League and at the same time broken records at national level. On that note, let's take a look at the top players who are record goal-scorers for their country and also won the Champions League.
#5 Luis Suarez
Controversies and achievements have always gone hand-in-hand for Luis Suarez but there is no denying the world class qualities he possesses. The Uruguayan striker is one of the best strikers in the world when on song.
Luis Suarez has played for some of the top clubs in his football career but his time at Barcelona has to be his best so far. He signed for the Catalan club in 2014 and was stunning for them. He has scored 195 goals in 283 appearances across all competitions. Suarez played a big role in helping them win the Treble in the 2014-15 season, scoring 25 goals and assisting 23 in 43 appearances.
Luis Suárez records:
477 goals in 758 matches, 18 career trophies
Uruguay's record scorer
2 European golden boots
3 league golden boots
3th record scorer in Barca's history
FWA,PFA,FST & Dutch player of the year😍
FOOTBALL LEGEND🙌 https://t.co/sLhgi5Xhnj
The former Liverpool striker has also done pretty well with his national team. Luis Suarez has scored 63 goals in 127 appearances for Uruguay. He also won the Copa America with the national side in 2011.
#4 Ferenc Puskas
Ferenc Puskas is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and a legendary one in the history of Real Madrid. He won five La Liga titles in his eight seasons with the Spanish giants.
With Los Blancos, he ended up as La Liga's highest goal-scorer in four seasons. The Hungarian striker had a terrific club career, scoring 514 goals in 530 matches. He won the Champions League, then known as the European Cup, three times with Real Madrid.
Legendary Real Madrid and Hungary forward Ferenc Puskas would have turned 93 today.
His legacy lives on with the annual Puskas Award for world's best goal 🙏 https://t.co/iP1HbheoZn
At the national level, Ferenc Puskas scored 84 goals in 85 appearances for Hungary, the all-time top scorer for his country. He also won the Summer Olympics in 1952 and ended up as a runner-up in the 1954 FIFA World Cup.