{"id":237399,"date":"2026-04-08T04:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/mexicos-hottest-strikers-outscoring-haaland-and-ronaldo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:24:23","slug":"mexicos-hottest-strikers-outscoring-haaland-and-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/mexicos-hottest-strikers-outscoring-haaland-and-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico&apos;s hottest strikers outscoring Haaland and Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Two Mexican strikers<\/strong> are absolutely on fire just days before the <strong>2026 World Cup<\/strong> &#8211; and they&#8217;re outscoring some of the biggest names on the planet, including <strong>Erling Haaland<\/strong> and <strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Two Mexicans among the world&#8217;s top scorers<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Julin Quiones<\/strong> is having a monster season with <strong>Al-Qadisiya<\/strong>, netting <strong>26 goals<\/strong> to sit second in the <strong>global scoring race<\/strong>. Only <strong>Harry Kane<\/strong> (31 goals) has more as the current <strong>European Golden Boot<\/strong> leader.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Armando Gonzlez<\/strong> is making waves of his own. The <strong>Chivas Guadalajara<\/strong> forward just hit <strong>24 goals<\/strong> after bagging a brace against <strong>Pumas<\/strong>, cracking the <strong>worldwide Top 4<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzlez already won the <strong>Apertura 2025 golden boot<\/strong> and has added another <strong>12 goals<\/strong> in the current tournament. He leads the <strong>Liga MX scoring race<\/strong> outright with four matchdays still to play.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the <strong>Mexican dominance<\/strong> even more impressive is who they&#8217;ve left behind on the global charts: <strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong> and <strong>Kylian Mbapp<\/strong> are on 23 goals each, while <strong>Erling Haaland<\/strong> sits on 22.<\/p>\n<p>The surprising twist? Neither Quiones nor Gonzlez is guaranteed a spot with the <strong>Mexico national team<\/strong> for the <strong>World Cup<\/strong>. That final decision rests entirely with head coach <strong>Javier Aguirre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/world-cup\/2026\/04\/08\/69d5d85a268e3e70168b457f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Mexican strikers are absolutely on fire just days before the 2026 World Cup &#8211; and they&#8217;re outscoring some of the biggest names on the planet, including Erling Haaland and Cristiano Ronaldo. Two Mexicans among the world&#8217;s top scorers Julin Quiones is having a monster season with Al-Qadisiya, netting 26 goals to sit second in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6808],"tags":[1039,503,970,186,972,175,133,195],"class_list":{"0":"post-237399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-al-nassr-fc-english","9":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo-english","10":"tag-erling-haaland-english","11":"tag-fifa-world-cup-english","12":"tag-manchester-city-english","13":"tag-mexico-national-football-team-english","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}