Every nation has their key figures in the sport; football is not an individual game and it is very important to have a strong and organized team to make the difference inside the pitch, but the decisive players, those who make the difference in the game – defensively or offensively – make their path to history.
The goal is the most celebrated moment of football, when we look to Europe and see the best players of the world we can recognize many outstanding players, real goal scorers. For Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo already scored 99 times, for England Wayne Rooney netted 53 times and for Germany Miroslav Klose scored 71 goals. In South America, Lionel Messi scored 70 times for his country, Luis Suárez has 59 goals for Uruguay and the Brazilian and worldwide legend Pelé is the Brazilian all-time topscorer with 77 goals.
In the other side of the planet, Fiji certainly has its talent. Roy Krishna continues to spread his talent – first in Oceania and now in Asia – and is the current captain of the Fiji national football team. Many fans of the sport in the country feel Krishna as the best player ever produced in Fiji, but some may still remember the quality of another player that made his career in Australia and gave lots of joy to the Fijian football fan: Esala Masi.
Striker Esala Masi also captained Fiji for several years – most of his club football career was in Australia where he defended teams as Newcastle Jets and Wollogong Wolves in the former National Soccer League – which was the top-tier of football in the country in that time. Masi turned into a respected striker in Australia after scoring more than 40 goals during his time in the country – playing in the National Soccer League and other leagues in the nation.
Masi scored 32 goals in 52 matches for Fiji – the now 45-year old coach is the all-time top scorer of Fijian football, but his countryman Krishna is not far away from him.
When Masi last played for the Bula Boys in 2005, Roy Krishna was still a young talented player – just 17 years old in that time. But it did not take much time for the Fijian to catch the attention of foreign clubs after his good performances in Labasa. During his years in Waitakere United, Auckland City and Wellington Phoenix the striker scored 107 goals, making his name to become a legend.
For his national team, Krishna scored 29 goals in 41 appearances – his last goal was in the bronze medal contest at Pacific Games 2019 held in Samoa.
Krishna has also made history for Fiji by scoring the first ever goal in the Olympics Men’s Football Tournament – when he scored against Mexico in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.
The now 32-year old striker is currently playing in India – in their most important league, the Indian Super League – and he is having a very good start for his new club ATK.
Krishna is just three goals away to tie the mark of Esala Masi as the top scorer ever for Fiji national football team. After scoring seven goals in 2019 for his country, he will have the opportunity to pursue Masi’s record in 2020.
Roy may have time to add this honour to his career, since the peak of his career was in 2019 after being the best player of the Australian A-League and top goalscorer of the season. Despite the records, both Masi and Krishna wrote fantastic stories and they are two important figures of the Fijian football that hopes for even better achievements in the next years – it is a pity for football fans that both magnificent goalscorers could not play together for their homeland.
Oceania Football Center 
Good on masi n krishna n ranaldo, rooney n Beckamp
Currently fiji has most players only playing for pride of money n not football. Also looking at Fiji clubs should look for jobs n then play football.
If a player has job he has future as not player all players are Roy or masi n after they are out of football they have jobs to continue to work n survive.
Club officials buy beer n give them regarless of whether they have food for family at home or not.
In fiji during nov- jan players drink n enjoy whereas epl is on top form so see the difference. League or other football matchers should continue throughout the year then we can see a progress in performance.
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