7 of the highest goal-scoring defenders of all time

#2 Daniel Passarella

They say that short players are not supposed to make good defenders, but Daniel Passarella breaks that convention into a million pieces. Despite being 5’8”, he had an astounding ability to score from headers. He was the perfect epitome of a defender: good tackler, intelligent, and a leader at the back.

Indeed, it was under his captaincy that Argentina won the 1978 World Cup. Scoring goals was the bonus trait in him as he scored a mammoth 175 goals in his glorious career and the best part of it was that most of it came from headers rather than direct set-pieces.