Football's greatest scorer with initials XG and most goals and assists with initials GA | The Knowledge

"The diminutive journeyman Greek midfielder Xenofon Gittas scored 17 goals across his club career (plus three for Greece Under-21s) but cannot match the scoring exploits of Xhevdet Gela, who is our winner with 44 goals across all competitions including the Europa League with the Finnish sides MyPa and Lahti. Unusually, during a spell between 2019-2022 in which Gela was playing for Ekenas in Finland, he was also the full-time manager of a fourth-tier side, Esbo, a club around 80km away."

"Details on the former Andorra international defender Xavier Gil are sparse, but he never left the Andorran Primera Divisio and it's fairly safe to assume that he, the Spanish centre-back Xabi Garalde (who made one appearance in Segunda B for Eibar) and the El Salvador international defender Xavier Garcia (who did score once for El Salvador against the Cayman Islands in a 2014 World Cup qualifier) did not beat Gela's total."

"There are thousands of footballers worldwide with the initials GA, but if we apply a bit of quality control counting just players throughout history that have appeared at World Cups there are two names that stand out. First, the German forward Gerald Asamoah, who has 183 goals and assists (113 goals, 70 assists) over a 19-year career, although it should be stated that many of his latter seasons were spent in the lower leagues and the reserve team of Schalke."

Only a handful of male footballers have the initials XG. Xenofon Gittas scored 17 club goals (plus three for Greece Under-21s). Xhevdet Gela scored 44 goals across all competitions, including Europa League goals for MyPa and Lahti, and served as full-time manager of fourth-tier Esbo while playing for Ekenas between 2019–2022 before returning to Esbo in a managerial role. Xavier Gil, Xabi Garalde and Xavier Garcia did not surpass Gela’s total. Geng Xiaofeng is the best-known XG but is a goalkeeper. Among GA players, Gerald Asamoah registered 183 combined goals and assists (113 goals, 70 assists) over 19 years, while Georgi Asparuhov scored 150 league goals in 247 games and stands out as the leading GA.

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