| Jiws tops list of world's marksmen |
| Monday 11 January 2010 |
 WELSH Premier marksman Marc Lloyd Williams is officially the world's most successful top division goal scorer amongst still active players. According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, Lloyd Williams' record of netting 313 times from 445 appearances in the domestic league tops a list which includes world-famous players such as Henrik Larsson (268 goals/478 matches), Rivaldo (261/518), Ronaldo (240/335), Thierry Henry (230/443), Raul Gonzalez (225/534), Martin Palermo (221/432), Ruud van Nistelrooy (216/316) and Mark Viduka (201/409). Second in the rankings is Juan Carlos Plata from Guatemala (299 goals), with Lisburn Distillery's Glenn Ferguson claiming third place (296). Latest to join the players scoring 200 times is FC Dynamo Kiev and ex-Chelsea forward Andriy Shevchenko, who lies 24th in the table. Lloyd Williams has scored 11 goals for his current club Airbus UK Broughton, with 52 for Porthmadog, 149 at Bangor City, 18 for Aberystwyth, 60 in TNS colours, 16 for Newtown and seven at Rhyl. The world's current top 10 according to the IFFHS: 1 Marc Lloyd Williams (Airbus UK FC Broughton) Wales, 313 from 445 2 Juan Carlos Plata (CSD Municipal Ciudad de Guatemala) Guatemala, 299 from 553 3 Glenn Ferguson (Lisburn Distillery) Northern Ireland, 296 from 589 4 Aleksandar Duric (Singapore Armed Forces FC) Australia/Singapore, 291 from 493 5 Maksim Gruznov (Sillamae JK Kalev) Eesti, 277 from 405 6 Henrik Larsson (Helsingborgs IF) Sweden, 268 from 478 7 Juan Garcia Rivas (AC Mineros de Guayana Puerto Ordaz) Venezuela, 265 from 576 8 Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira (FK Bunyodkor Tashkent) Brazil, 261 from 518 9 Damian Mori (Adelaide City FC) Australia, 259 from 495 10 Jared Francisco Borgetti (Puebla FC) Mexico, 254 from 582. |