5 Thierry Henry records that may never be broken

#4 All-time top scorer for France

Henry celebrates1998 FIFA World Cup victory with Sylvian Wiltord (L)

France has been a successful nation as an international football team. They have won all the trophies that can be won by a nation. This success is down to the fact that they always had very gifted players in their squad like Michel Platini, Zinedine Zidane and Eric Cantona.

One player who stands out from the list is Thierry Henry. He is their top goal scorer by some margin. The former Barcelona star has scored 51 goals for Les Blues in 123 appearances, which is simply phenomenal. He averaged 0.42 goals per game for them and was one of the main reasons why the French were so dominant in late ‘90s and early part of the millennium – a world class player who was in his prime.

“Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.” This is what Zinedine Zidane had to say about his compatriot.

Henry broke Michel Platini’s longstanding record of 41 goals and he is also France’s second highest capped player behind Lilian Thuram. Currently, only Karim Benzema is closest to his record with with just 25 goals at the end of 2014.