Puskás is still in the lead on the all-time world ranking list
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According to index.hu, Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals on the World Cup qualifier match against Latvia last Sunday. It could’ve been three but he missed a penalty kick. With these two goals he now has 68 all together, which means that he caught up with the 4th Gerd Müller and Robbie Keane on the all-time world ranking list.
The list is still led by two Hungarians, the two legends of the Golden Team; Ferenc Puskás and Sándor Kocsis scored 84 and 75 goals. The retired Miroslav Klose is in the 3rd place with his 71 goals.
Ferenc Puskás also played in the Spanish national team between 1961 and 1962, but he didn’t score any more goals there. Kocsis managed to do the hat trick seven times during his career. Klose was part of the national team for the first time in January, 2001, and retired 13 years later, but still scored three goals in 2014.
Gerd Müller, just like Kocsis, is known for having scored more goals than the number of matches he attended. From this aspect, Kocsis’s goal/match rate is still a bit better.