Viktor Gyökeres26-year-old Swedish forward Sporting CPhas grown tired of scoring goals during 2024. In 61 games to date, he has scored 62 goals, practically one goal per game, and he still has two games left to play in the First Leaguebefore him Gil Vicente FC (December 22) and Benfica (December 29). This mark is far from being reached by the second in the table, Erling Haaland (48) and the third, Harry Kane (46). So everything indicates that the Stockholm player He will close the year as the top scorer in the world.
Thanks to his impressive performances, this week he was awarded the Golden Ball of the Swedish Football Association (SvFF)a recognition that is awarded every year to the best Swedish footballer. “During this past weekend, Viktor He scored his 61st goal between Sporting and the national team. “There is nothing more challenging in football than scoring goals and winning titles, and no one has made it look easier than Viktor Gyökeres,” reads a statement on the association’s official website.
“Receiving this award really means a lot to me. It’s something I’ve worked very hard for. There have been difficult moments in my careerbut to achieve what I have achieved this year and perform at the level I did has been fantastic,” Gyökeres commented on the award.
He The Golden Ballas the Swedish Ballon d’Or is also known, is not an easy award to win. From 2005 to 2017 it was almost completely dominated by Zlatan Ibrahimovicexcept in 2006 when he won it Fredrik Ljungberg. Even so, the task is not easy with competitors like Dejan Kulusevski, Alexander Isak or Isak Hien.
In the current season he has already scored 36 goals (27 for Sporting and 9 for Sweden) and was also named the best Swedish striker of the year. Furthermore, everything seems to indicate that he will close 2024 as the top scorer in the European leagues (18 in the Primeira Liga), closely followed by Robert Lewandowski (16 in LaLiga).
Rootedwith past in Brighton and the Coventrydreams of returning to England in style: “Playing for one of the best teams in Europe. That’s the goal.” However, from the other leagues he is followed closely and one of the teams with which he has been most linked in recent times is the FC Barcelona: “We’ll see. There are many rumors circulating, but we are halfway through the season, there are many months left. We will see when the time comes what will happen,” he concluded.
In search of historical records
Although Viktor Gyökeres has had an unstoppable performance during 2024, is far from reaching the maximum figures that the best players in history have left. There is still a long way to go to reach the 91 points achieved by Lionel Messi in 2012, playing for FC Barcelonaand obviously they will have to raise their level even more to get closer in 2025.
However, what the Swedish gunner has achieved so far is impressive. It has already surpassed what was done by Cristiano Ronaldo in 2011, 2015 and 2016. As if that were not enough, he has left behind the records of Kylian Mbappé (56 in 2022) and Harry Kane (56 in 2017). The figure he is pursuing at this moment is 69 goalswhich they share Cristiano Ronaldo (2013 with Real Madrid) and Robert Lewandowski (2021 with Bayern Munich), and he only has two games left to achieve it, with 62 goals in his personal account, it is a difficult but not impossible task.
