Rogerio Ceni

Rogerio Ceni scored his 100th career goal in the derby - São Paulo f.c

Rogério Ceni: 100 goals and counting
The goalscoring keeper may not be a new concept, but the São Paulo stopper stands alone among hot shots between the sticks
 
Rogério Ceni scored his 100th goal for São Paulo at the weekend, the winner in a 2-1 league victory against Corinthians. Ceni is 37 years old and has played more than 950 matches in his 21-year career, which adds up to a strike-rate of a goal every nine games or so – roughly equivalent to Emile Heskey's record with England.

Heskey, of course, did a lot of good work in his own half. But then, so does Ceni, who is by trade a goalkeeper in Brazil's top division, performing his main role well enough to have loitered for some time on the international fringes. It is a stunning achievement: 100 career goals in a one-club career that has seen him also win two World Club Championships and pick up 17 caps for Brazil.

The goalscoring keeper may not be an entirely new concept: Jorge Campos and René Higuita achieved novelty-oddity status through similar, albeit reduced feats. Campos scored 38 career goals, a portion of those while playing as a striker. Higuita, another set-piece specialist, scored eight times in 68 matches for Colombia. Ceni's closest rival José Luis Chilavert scored 67 career goals, and was also the first goalkeeper to shoot at goal from a direct free-kick at a World Cup finals, almost scoring against Bulgaria in 1998.

Ceni, however, stands alone among goalkeeping hot shots. Firstly for the sheer weight and quality of his of goals. He is, naturally, the first goalie ever to get to three figures. Plus he seems to score his share of screamers. Just look at that 100th goal: no goalkeeper's punt this, but a sublimely flighted caress of the ball. Finally his goalscoring has gone hand in hand with general solidity elsewhere. Ceni was third choice in the 2002 World Cup-winning squad and in 2005 he was man of the match in the defeat of Liverpool FC in the Club World Cup final. This is an outstandingly versatile set of skills.

It would be nice to think we might even see a little more of this kind of thing in the future. Lured by the rule-makers, coaxed by the tactical fluidity of the modern game, the goalkeeper has emerged from his cave in recent times. Distribution has long been a key component of the job description. Counterattacking thrusts, goal-bound free-kicks from the halfway line: these are now goalie territory. Maybe we will see more Cenis emerging in the years to come as tactical fluidity and a general coalescing between rigidly defined roles becomes more the norm.

Although, let's face it, perhaps rather more over there than over here. There are many things South Americans do both differently and better in football. Looking on from the outside, the sheer impossibility of a British Ceni ever emerging – bound by obstacles both technical and cultural – is perhaps just another reason to celebrate the brilliance of his achievement.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/28/rogerio-ceni-100-goals-and-counting

Bloody hell, that's some going!

100 goals? Wow, Pepe Reina could so with lessons. He's got 0.

Anyway respect to him, unbelievable achievement, espically for a keeper.

At first I thought it was 100 own goals .

Diego had much to say about this lad in the Football around the world thread.

Incredible.

100 goals? Wow, Pepe Reina could so with lessons. He's got 0.

It does help if you take pens and free-kicks, like Ceni has done for many a season.

And he got lucky with the World Club Cup medal, should of been ours that if it wasn't for a sh*t ref!

He's one of the most disliked characters in Brazilian football by the other clubs' fans, but it's easy to understand why he's regarded as São Paulo FC's best ever. He has captained his club to win every trophy possible. And he's a big game performer, for example he was the MOTM in that final against Liverpool back in 2005... I never forget one free kick from Gerrard he saved near the angle, it was unbelievable. One of his best games I remember was when he saved a penalty and then scored 2 goals against Cruzeiro in a game Sao Paulo ended up winning by 3-2 if I'm not mistaken.

But he's such an arrogant tw*t, I love it when he makes mistakes. As a goalkeeper, between the posts, he's slightly overrated too (although actually underrated by fans of São Paulo rivals clubs who keep saying he's nothing but a free kick taker, which is obviously unfair), but definitely one of the best in this country for a long time. His club, São Paulo, won 3 league titles in a row (2006-2007-2008), playing mostly boring football, which is another factor that adds to the dislike people feel for them and the player who impersonates the club more than anybody else, Rogerio.

He is often compared to the goalkeeper of one of São Paulo rivals, Palmeiras captain Marcos, who was Brazil goalkeeper in the WC 2002 win and is loved by everybody for his humble and down to earth personality. Marcos was a better keeper IMO and a greater man who I'll always admire. Anyway, even though I dislike Ceni, I must admit if he did for Flamengo what he's been doing for São Paulo, I'd probably want his face tattooed in my arm

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hay buddy are you talking about Barca??
I did not think so....
I am not a Spanice
Perhaps you are a spanece and you are talking in spean
so plz make it clear to me thank you very much

Too much  ?

hay buddy are you talking about Barca??
I did not think so....
I am not a Spanice
Perhaps you are a spanece and you are talking in spean
so plz make it clear to me thank you very much

WTF... this has to be the most random post ever.

Wonder if he has conceded more than 100 goals as a result of taking all the free-kicks and the team getting hit on the break. None the less, great achievement for any player to get 100 goals.