James Rodríguez celebrates with Luis Díaz at the Metropolitano de Barranquilla.
Photo: EFE – Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda
Colombia is ready, in a few hours, face Paraguay for the sixth date of the qualifying rounds in Asunción, at the Defensores del Chaco Stadium.
The match will start at 6:00 pm and will be transmitted by Canal Caracol through the signal of the Snail gol.
The match will start at 6:00 pm and will be transmitted by Canal Caracol through the signal of the Snail gol.
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After their unprecedented victory against Brazil, 2-1, The Colombian team will try to beat Paraguay as a visitor, which would allow him to remain among the top three places in the qualifying table.
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All eyes will be on Luis Diaz, who comes from scoring the two goals of victory against Brazil.
The guajiro is one of the qualifying scorers and hopes to score more goals in the race for the scoring table in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
Luis Díaz, among the scorers of the tie
With his two goals on the fifth date, Luis Díaz entered the fight for the scorers of the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers.
Lucho only has two goals so far in the qualifiers, but he is only one of the three scorers: Lionel Messi (Argentina), Darwin Núñez and Nicolás De La Cruz (Uruguay)all with three goals.
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Luis Diaz is one box down with two goals, the same from other players like the Ecuadorian Félix Torres, the Brazilians Neymar and Rodrygo or the Venezuelan Salomón Rondón.
Luis Díaz celebrates with James Rodríguez.
Photo: EFE – Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda
How is the historical scoring table of the Colombian team?
Besides, Luis Diaz also continues to rise in the historical table of scorers of the Colombian national team.
Fought Diaz, who has nine goals with the national team, is still far from the first places. However, he has already started to discount and is approaching the top-5.
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The leader of that classification is Falcao garcia with 36 goals. James Rodriguez It is the second, since it has 27 notes.
This is the list of the five top scorers in the history of the Colombian national team:
- Falcao García: 36 goals.
- James Rodríguez: 27 goals.
- Arnoldo Iguarán: 25 goals.
- Faustino Asprilla: 20 goals.
- Freddy Rincón: 17 goals.
