Before entering fully into the meaning of the term goal, we are going to proceed to know its etymological origin. In this case, we can emphasize that it is a word that derives from English, specifically from "goal", which can be translated as "meta".
This concept is used in the field of sport to name the entry of the ball (ball) into the goal (goal) .
In many sports disciplines, the winner of a match is the team that scores the most goals. Therefore, scoring goals is the main objective of each match, since each goal means a goal or a point.
Take the case of football . In this sport, the goal is scored when the ball crosses the goal line. If one team scores more goals than the other, they win the match. If both teams score the same number of goals (or none), the game ends tied.
While footballers try to score goals, goalkeepers ( goalkeepers or goalkeepers ) have the job of preventing them. At the same time, depending on the position they occupy on the field , there are footballers who are more or less likely to score goals: a defender's main task is to collaborate with his team's goalkeeper to prevent rival goals, while a forward concentrates in trying to score goals and not in preventing them.
Lionel Messi is one of the most important scorers in football in its entire history . Due to the number of goals he achieved, he is the top scorer for FC Barcelona and the Argentine national team .
However, we must not overlook that other important scorers in the history of football are the following, specifically these four are ahead of Messi for that merit:
-Number 1 goes to the Austro-Czech Josef Bican (1913 – 2001), known as Pepi Bican, who scored a total of 1,468 goals in the 918 games he played.
-Number 2 goes to the German Gerd Müller (1945), who scored 1,461 goals in a total of 1,216 games he played.
-The bronze medal for the greatest scorers in the history of football goes to the Brazilian Arthur Friedenreich (1892 – 1969). He played a total of 1,239 games and scored 1,379 goals in total.
-The fourth position in this ranking goes to the Brazilian Pelé (1940), who played a total of 1,366 soccer games and managed to score a total of 1,282 goals in his professional career.
However, in recent years, in addition to the aforementioned historical scorers, there are other players who have stood out for the numerous goals they have scored in a season. Among those are the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, the Polish Robert Lewandowski or the French Thierry Henry, among others.
In hockey , handball , polo , Australian rules football and water polo you also need to score goals to achieve a win. Depending on the characteristics of each discipline , the goal can be achieved in different ways: in hockey the ball is propelled with a stick, in handball it is thrown with the hand, etc.