Hot Benjamin Šeško: Only Zlatko Zahović scored for Slovenia at a better average, but the difference is practically negligible
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That Slovenia has never had a better striker is a fact. Benjamin Šeško proves this both on the club and international stages. Despite being only 21 years old, he has already scored 15 goals for the national team and is already fifth on Slovenia’s all-time scoring list. On Monday, in the match against Kazakhstan, he also became the eighth Slovenian to score a hat-trick. Besides all this, it’s also interesting to note that only Zlatko Zahović scored goals for Slovenia at a better average than Benjamin Šeško!
Legendary Zlatko Zahović, who played for the national team between 1992 and 2004, scored 35 goals in 80 matches and is its all-time top scorer. He also boasts the best scoring average (if we consider only those who scored at least 10 goals for the national team, excluding players like Ivica Vulić, who scored at an average rate in every other match, but only played two matches…).
Šeško Surpasses Gliha, Udovič, Novaković
Zlatko Zahović’s average was 0.437 goals per match, which is close to scoring a goal in every other match. For many years, he was second in the list of players with the highest scoring average, behind Milivoje Novaković, the current technical director of the national team, who had an average of 0.4 goals per match. Now, Benjamin Šeško is second, having raised his average to 0.428 with his hat-trick against Kazakhstan, thus approaching Zlatko Zahović’s average.
Before the Monday match against Kazakhstan in Stožice, Benjamin Šeško was fifth on this special list. He has now surpassed not only Novaković but also Primož Gliha (0.36) and Saša Udovič (0.38). Among the top 10 Slovenian goal scorers of all time, Boštjan Cesar had the worst average, scoring once every 10 appearances. However, it’s worth noting that as a defender, he scored 10 goals in 101 matches, which is quite notable.
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