The Top Five Legends with Most Free Kick of all time comprises of Four South American Players and just one English player.
Lionel Messi and Cristiano ronaldo, no doubt are one of the world best free kick taker, but statistics shows that they were no close to top 5 players with the most free kicks.
The top 5 legend with the most free kicks include
1. Juninho Pernambucano : played for Lyon during the year 2000 and scored 77 free kicks through out his career helping Lyon to carry Seven titles during his stint. 44 of his 100 Lyon goals were free kicks and this earned him the master of Knuckle ball.
He is the only Brazilian south american player with the most free kicks in foot ball history.
2. Pele : despite winning three world cups and scoring over 1000 career goals, he has a whooping 70 free kicks to his name. He is being regarded by some as the greatest footballer of all time.
3. Ronaldinho: he sits third on the list and hence is one of the most entertaining footballers of all time. He is rarely seen with a smile on his face, performs outrageous flicks and tricks, have an amazing 66 free kicks records.
4. David Beckham : the former Manchester united, real Madrid and England captain is the most documented player on the list and had 65 free kicks in his career.
5. Diego maradona : even though he wasn't a natural born striker, he impressed by scoring an outrageous 62 career free kicks.
Now these are the top 5 legends with the most prolific free kicks of all time.
The question is how does lionel messi and Cristiano ronaldo compare to their statistics?
Lionel messi : currently averages 7.25 free kicks per season, the graph below shows how many free kicks messi scored in the past eleven seasons for barcelona. With this kind of rate it is obvious that he will make the top 5 legends with the most free kicks of all time.
Another picture depicts the messi free kicks stats against some of the clubs in the past eight years which shows that messi outscored the total free kicks in these clubs.
In terms of difficulty and messi best free kick, the one that comes in mind is the one he scored against Liverpool in the champions league last season victory at camp nou.
Lionel messi is currently leading his rival cristiano ronaldo in the most free kicks after surpassing ronaldo total free kick tally of 53, he is now focused on Top 5 legends.
