Is this Rooney's year? As of today Wayne Rooney has 4 goals in 4 league games for his club, and 10 goals for 9 games including cup play and internatioanl games. That's a scoring rate one would not expect Rooney to maintain, historically speaking. If you have read the football pundits about Wayne Rooney in any of the last several years, it will have been hard to avoid glowing characterisations of his football.

Last year Cristiano Ronaldo scored a remarkable number of goals. Who is the top goal scorer this year? Check the latest goal tally at Goal count! Top Strikers in Europe where you can see the top scorers from 6 top Europe leagues at a glance. So who is on top right of the scoring [...]

Strikers live and die by their goal tallies, so I thought it'd be interesting to take a peak to see who is doing well as the European season gets under way. Here's a snapshot, see the link below for the goal tallies on an on-going basis.

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League in Goals Top
Scorers England 4 Jermaine Defoe, Wayne Rooney France 4 Yoann Gourcuff Germany 4 Paolo Guerrero, Stefan Kiessling Italy 3 Antonio Di Natale Portugal 3 Oscar Cardozo, Garcia Radamei Spain 3 Roberto Soldado

The players above have scored at an amazing rate over the first league games.

It's all about young players getting into the scoring table this last week as Chukwudi Chijindu (Chivas), Bryan Jordan (Galaxy), and Macoumba Kandji (Red Bulls) score their first goals of the season. Chukwudi comes to MLS this year from the University of Connecticut where he was a psych! major, while Bryan and Macoumba came from the USL.

Numerologists will tell you that the date 9-9-09 is special. Sounds a bit far fetched, but maybe strikers believe it.

There was a veritable goal spree in World Cup qualifying matches in Europe today, with two countries racking up 7-0 victories. Here are a few fun facts from today's Europe matches:

• 72 goals were scored in 25 matches
• 48 goals were scored by the home teams
• 24 goals were scored by the away teams

England, Spain, and Netherlands have now each qualified for the World Cup with eight straight wins.

Up and coming young strikers in the MLS Goals, we crave goals. The USA is not Italy, quality defending is great but we like the sound of the ball hitting the back of the net. Rookies, players new to the MLS, and the under 25 crowd may be providing us this excitement. We've started a focus on [...]

Here's a short video tribute to Charlie Davies who was seriously injured in a car crash this last week. Charlie is a player who seemed to be really coming on and finding himself in the game. Our thoughts are with Charlie Davies, and his family and friends

Charlie Davies, No.9 Age 23 National Team USA Current Club Sochaux Current League France Ligue 1 Last Club Hammarby Last League Sweden Allsvenskan College Boston College Total Club Goals 29 Total Caps 17 Total International Goals as a Senior 4
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This last weekend's tight matches kept any additional young guns from breaking into the MLS scoring record, with only Marco Pappa, Arturo Alvarez, and Ryan Johnson adding to their goal tallies, all from the San Jose - Chicago goal fest.

The "old" guys made a bit of a comeback with Brian McBride leading the way in showing that having a couple extra miles under the tires does not keep one from scoring an excellent goal.

As we get psyched up for another weekend of MLS soccer, let's check in on which young strikers are hot.

The young talent who've netted this season is spread across 11 teams so far. Seattle, Chicago, and San Jose each have three different young players who've scored, the Sounders getting 5 goals from their efforts.