Iranian Mehdi Taremi this Saturday became the 16th Porto player to win the title of top scorer in the Portuguese First League, scoring 22 goals in the 2022/23 season won by Benfica.
The 30-year-old Iranian striker joined the “fight” for the title of top “top scorer” of the championship, scoring three goals more than Benfica’s Gonzalo Ramos and five more than Joao Mario, also from Benfica. the new champions of the compatriots, and then the Spaniard Fran Navarro from Gil Vicente.
Taremi replaced Uruguayan Darwin Nunez, who was top scorer in 2021/22 with 26 goals for Benfica before moving to Liverpool.
Sporting’s Pedro Gonçalves, top scorer of the 2020/21 season, finished fifth with 15 goals.
The Iranian became the 16th Blue and White player to win this scepter, and the first after the “troika” of Colombian Jackson Martinez, who won in the 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons.
Previously, the best “gunners” for the “dragons” were also the “repeated” Jardel (four times) and Fernando Gomes (six), as well as the Brazilians Hulk, Peña and Azumir, the Argentinean Lisandro Lopez, the South African Benny McCarthy, the Yugoslav Cordnea and the Portuguese Domingos Paciencia, Jacques, Araujo, Correia Diaz, Costuras and Pinga.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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