Opinion – Sandro Macedo: From Stephen Curry to CR7, we live in the era of records

If you, dear reader, who like to follow sports in general, decide to spend a bucolic week in the countryside, disconnected from everything, you run the risk of losing a historic record to be broken in some modality. Yes, they are broken to pieces these days. Anyone who grew up at the beginning of this century must be a very spoiled fan. Pampered even.

The most recent came from the NBA, with Stephen Curry. The Golden State Warriors star hit the mark of 2,973 3-point baskets that belonged to Ray Allen, present in the break game. Then he did a few more to close the match against the Knicks with 2,977.

Reggie Miller, the third-place and big name of the 1990s Indiana Pacers — he was not champion because, in his best years, he had one Michael Jordan on another team — commented that Curry’s mark will “never” be reached.

Miller’s comment makes perfect sense, as Curry doesn’t look like he’s going to retire tomorrow or after. The problem is that Steph revolutionized the NBA game with his 3-point shots in such a way that the new generation already enters the league more used to long-distance shooting. To see.

Tennis fans are the luckiest: they saw Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic (order of preference) put virtually every ATP record in their pocket.

In F1, Lewis Hamilton, who was already the record holder, surpassed the number 100 in both victories and poles. Anyone who saw Ayrton Senna running would say that “never” anyone would surpass his 65 poles (Schumacher later did 68). Here, among other things, including the interrupted career of the Brazilian and Hamilton’s talent, of course, it is necessary to highlight the cardinal sin of greed on the part of the organizers, who increased the number of races, giving more chances to new record holders. This year there were 22 GPs against 16 in 1988, Senna’s first title, for example.

In football, then, the record is broken almost every week. Cristiano Ronaldo enters the field and has some record threatened. He is the record holder for official goals, with more than 800, is the top scorer in the Champions League and is the top scorer for national teams — consequently, also number 1 in the Portuguese national team, with 115 goals. In all of them, Messi is close at hand, playing just as well, but without the same “top scorer placement” as CR7.

By the way, speaking of goals per team, the current generation has the privilege of seeing the best scorers of almost all that are worth it. Here again, thanks to the fat eye of the organizers, who inflated or created tournaments.

Brazil, for example, played four games to qualify for the 1986 World Cup. Now, there are 18 games for South American Qualifiers. Haaaja Venezuela x Bolivia, friend.

Argentina’s top scorer? Messi. From Germany? Klose, who played until the other day. From Belgium? Lukaku. From Poland? Lewandovsky. From England? Wayne Rooney, with 53 goals, but Harry Kane already has 48 and is third, with one goal less than Bobby Charlton — meaning, he is a duel against Liechtenstein or San Marino from being the greatest in history.

In the Brazilian team, the record still belongs to Pelé, with 77 goals in 92 matches. Neymar already has 70, from 116 games, and is set to become No. 1 — the CBF could schedule a friendly with San Marino to resolve that soon.

Even Giroud, one of the most… elegant top scorers in football, could become the greatest scorer in French history. Yes Yes. Forget Zidane (31 goals) or Platini (41). Giroud already has 46 goals and is 5 behind Thierry Henry. Who would say…

But there is an unbreakable record! Roberto Dinamite, top scorer in the Brazilian Championship with 190 goals. The closest and still active is Fred, currently at Fluminense, at 158. At 38, Frederico doesn’t seem to have the gas to reach the mark. Or have?