ali daei is the leading all time goal scorer in international football.
who is the leading all time goal scorer in international football?
ali daei
john made his international debut for trinidad and tobago national football team on 15 february 1995 against finland in a friendly match at the queen's park oval, scoring one goal on his debut. john has been a vital player for the "soca warriors", currently the team's all-time leading scorer with 70 goals in 115 caps (as of 9 february 2011), and is also the 7th highest international goalscorer according to the list of top international association football goal scorers by country, behind pelé, ferenc puskás and ali daei. he is also the all-time top concacaf goal scorer. he was instrumental in helping his country qualify for the 2006 fifa world cup and played in all three of his country's world cup group matches at germany 2006. in germany, he scored an offside goal. he was also named trinidad and tobago football federation player of the year in 2002. john is currently the second most capped trinidad and tobago international behind former teammate angus eve. he was the only player to score in 12 consecutive international matches, from 1998 to 1999.
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as of 7 july 2019, a total of 324 females have played 100 or more international matches for their respective nations. the all-time leader in senior caps, kristine lilly of the united states, had 352 caps and retired from international football on 6 january 2011. lilly is also fourth highest goal scorer in international football with 130 goals. the current active most capped women international football player is christine sinclair of canada with 286 caps. sinclair is also the leading active goal scorer in women international football with 182 goals. twenty women — ten of them american, two from canada, china and sweden, and one each from denmark, germany, japan and scotland — have 200 or more caps.
list of women's footballers with 100 or more caps