Former Real Madrid and Barcelona star Luis Figo said to the football media that Cristiano Ronaldo is not the best player Portugal ever produced but the Forgotten Legend Fernando Peyroteo. Ronaldo's career record also is even nowhere near the Black Panther Eusébio Ferreira.
According to The Dream Team FC comparing Cristiano Ronaldo with the Forgotten Legend Fernando Peyroteo, then Peyroteo recorded 694 league goals in 393 games, while the Black Panther Eusébio Ferreira had a 790 league goals in 745 games. Cristiano Ronaldo had only 488 career goals in 674 matches. With this digits, there is no doubt Ronaldo is not the best player in Portugal.
During the Forgotten Legend Fernando Peyroteo's first season, he had set a Portuguese record scoring in 10 consecutive games at the end of the 1938 season. In those ten matches alone, Peyroteo had already hit 31 goals.
In the next 11 seasons in Portuguese football, the Forgotten Legend Peyroteo finished as the country's top scorer now fewer than six times, and in fact, Peyroteo scored more than a goal per game in each of the 12 seasons. His greatest accomplishment came during 1946 season when Peyroteo hit 43 goals in 26 games season.
The Forgotten Legend Fernando Peyroteo also went on to win five league titles, five domestic cups, and the first ever Portuguese Supercup in 1944, where he scored twice in the extra times to secure a win against Benfica.
The Black Panther Eusébio Ferreira has already won the Ballon d'Or in 1965, before he led Portugal to their best World Cup place in 1966, The Sun reported. The Black Panther was also put to the tournament's top scorer list with nine goals and finished his international career with 41 goals in 61 matches.
In 15 seasons at Benfica, the Black Panther Eusébio Ferreira led the club to 11 titles, as well as the 1962 European Cup.
The former star Luis Figo told the Spanish newspaper that he admired Cristiano Ronaldo and he enjoys seeing his achievements. But even though Figo never saw Eusebio play, he would put him at number one for everything football stands for.
The Forgotten Legend Fernando Peyroteo and the Black Panther Eusébio Ferreira were just examples of the many players that had been overlooked in sports history.
Do you remember any player that had been forgotten too?
