Brazil’s No10 has the time,talent and will to claim a century of international goals, and from there go on to pass Ali Daei’s all-time record of 109Welcome back, or then,the Premier League. On you go. No really. Don’t wait. Let me just sit here and get my breath back. There may have been more frothingly overexcited autumn international breaks than the one just past, a week made up nearly entirely of having strident, or furious opinions about Wayne Rooney while also offering the definitive hot retract on the comparative intensity of international friendly competition in the 1950s (English football,as ever, apt at the cutting edge of the contemporary game). But not many of them, and not by much.
It was a lovely moment watching Rooney reach his half-century of England goals,mainly because its a relief to see these cobwebbed passe records swept aside, the row of stuffed and mounted heads steadily removed from the wall. But away from the records, and indeed from competitive international matches,for me the best pure footballing moment of the week happened on Tuesday night in Foxborough, Massachusetts during an otherwise room-temperature 4-1 friendly defeat of the USA by Brazil.
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Source: theguardian.com