Igor Ribeiro scored his first championship goal for "Neftchi". Sport24.az reports with reference to the PFL that the Brazilian defender distinguished himself in the XVIII round of the Misli Premier League.
He found the net of his former team in the match against "Araz-Nakhchivan" (4:0).
Ribeiro became the 200th player in the history of Azerbaijan championships to score for "Neftchi" against the opponent's goal. 194 players had managed to do this before the start of the current season. Before Igor, 5 more players were included in this list in the current championship. Alesio Kurci, Freddi Vargas, Imad Faraj, Ifeanyi Matthew and Vincent Abubakar also scored their first goals in previous rounds.
"Neftchi" is the team with the most players scoring goals in the top league of Azerbaijan championships. No other team has had 200 players score. It should be noted that the first goal of the "white-blacks" was scored by Yunis Huseynov on May 8, 1992 against "Khazar" (Sumgayit). Samir Alakbarov, who scored 99 goals, heads the list of 200 "goal weapons".