Goals or Trophies: which one is more important?

Football is a team game and not a one man game but of recent, we have seen the likes of some footballers who had dominated the game with the high rate of goals they scored in a season or perhaps in a year.

Who says football is not a one man team and let me show him the distances between the goals scored by Leo Messi compared to Luis Suarez or Cristiano Ronaldo compared to Karim Benzema.

How does Goals aids the progress of a team? 

Every football club plays to win and there is no way for a club to win games without scoring goal (s) even in a penalty shootout.

It is the joy of every striker to score goals and the goals scored by the strikers are what helps the team to gather points to progress in a competitive match.

Is Goals important than trophies?

I have never seen a football player that says goals is more important to him than trophies. What is the importance of scoring goals week in and week out without winning trophy for your club?

Leo Messi is a perfect example, he scored 54 goals to round off 2017, he has the highest assist also, he created more chances than anybody else but he couldn't win the Balon D'or in 2017. 

Why?

Cristiano Ronaldo has the trophy and Leo Messi has the goals.

Should Trophy really matters about individual award over goals?

A player can score loads of goals and fail to win a major trophy for his team.

Harry Kane is also breaking records with goals but can he win a major trophy for Tottenham?

The Tottenham ace's hat-trick against Bournemouth on boxing day took him to 39 goals for the year to smash Alan Shearer's premier league scoring record.

His 56 for club and country in 2017 put him two ahead of Lionel Messi as the most deadly top flight marksman in Europe.

But despite his 196 career goals and personal accolades, Kane, 24 has yet to win a trophy with Tottenham.

"I've always said team trophies is what I want to achieve", said Kane.

It is obvious Trophy is more important than Goals. 

Why Trophy is more important than goals: Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi case study: 

The individual statistics can tell a lot about their performances as players over the past 12 months, but just as much can be learned from the achievements of their teams in the past year. Clearly, at club level, Ronaldo has had the edge in 2017, with the 32-year-old helping Real Madrid to become the first team to win back-to-back Champions League titles with two goals in the final victory over Juventus. Los Blancos also lifted La Liga, and the Supercopa de Espana, leaving Barcelona and Messi with just the Copa del Rey to their name.

On an international level, both players helped their countries qualify for the 2018 World Cup, despite some minor setbacks along the way. With Argentina's qualification hopes in the balance, 30-year-old Messi pulled out one of his best ever performances for his country, with a hat-trick against Ecuador, becoming the joint top scorer in CONMEBOL qualifying in the process.

In Europe, Ronaldo was also setting records with Portugal. His hat-trick against the Faroe Islands helped him become the highest scorer in UEFA qualifying with 29 goals during his career. In addition, the former Manchester United attacker also overtook Pele on the list of all-time international goalscorers, taking his tally to 79 international goals.

On a team level, Ronaldo is clearly the world's standout performer, adding many more trophies to his collection thanks to Real Madrid's dominance domestically and in Europe. However, individually, Messi continues to impress, particularly in La Liga with Barcelona.

Written by Alonge Damilola Lawrence

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