SportZone's forgotten striker brings a goal-counting question

Erwin Helmchen's reported scoring record gets the spotlight in a Short that has passed a million views.

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The Forgotten Striker Who Scored More Goals Than Ronaldo! 🤯 #football #soccer #shorts #j

What counts as a career goal? SportZone's most watched new upload sends viewers straight to that question, using German striker Erwin Helmchen to revisit Cristiano Ronaldo's place in football's scoring history.

The football clips channel's narrated Short, "The Forgotten Striker Who Scored More Goals Than Ronaldo! 🤯 #football #soccer #shorts #j", has reached roughly 1.2 million views. It moves from Ronaldo highlights to scoring averages, hat-tricks and archival photographs of Helmchen, whose playing career stretched across the years before and after World War II.

But the totals need care. The narration credits Helmchen with a reported tally far higher than the one printed on his photograph later in the edit. Viewers are discussing precisely that gap: which matches belong in the count, and whether official and unofficial appearances are being mixed. The Short presents a comparison, not a settled answer to that debate.

SportZone posted fourteen uploads across the week, including Ronaldo free kicks, Sergio Ramos and Real Madrid's Bundesliga connections. Its Cavani-and-Ibrahimović retrospective is drawing the next-largest daily audience behind the Helmchen clip, with the long-distance Ronaldo compilation also keeping momentum.

The channel collected about 2.5 million views over the week, close to Guardian Football's total and above most of its nearby football peers. Subscribers increased modestly, while daily views are a little above their usual level. For SportZone, the week's biggest discovery is a historical name, with the counting rules becoming as much of a talking point as the goals.

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The numbers

Here is SportZone's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Guardian Football

2,537,644

SportZone

2,461,844

The Athletic FC Podcast

1,315,636

SBS Sport

1,191,084

Stephen Howson

1,128,064

Arsenal News Channel

726,607

Nottingham Forest FC

680,668

AFC Bournemouth

612,454

Brentford Football Club

191,679

subscribers

314,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

439,628,585

views per day

302,006

typical day: 271,251

first-day views of each video posted this week

The Forgotten Striker Who Scored More G…

191,961

Only Ronaldo Could Score Free Kicks Fro…

36,217

Messi's Secret Gift Made Tello's First …

49,840

Real Madrid Have Cracked the Bundesliga…

49,114

The Most Fearless Defender Football Has…

57,125

Zlatan Tried to Keep Cavani in His Shad…

39,511

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Arsenal News Channel

362,000

SBS Sport

344,000

Stephen Howson

325,000

Brentford Football Club

324,000

The Athletic FC Podcast

322,000

SportZone

314,000

Guardian Football

307,000

Nottingham Forest FC

306,000

AFC Bournemouth

273,000

As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.