In today’s WFC game against Singapore, Denmark’s Cecilia Di Nardo scored 5 times.
She’s now become the all-time WFC top scorer (goals) as she surpassed Corin Rüttimann – again.
Road to record
The 27-year-old forward, who plays in Malmö (Sweden), started her scoring path in 2009, although not quite successfully. In Västerås, Sweden, Di Nardo scored once in five games. Denmark reached 9th place during the tournament, in which even countries like Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Canada joined.
WFC 2011
In 2011, Di Nardo increased her number to four goals as she scored against the USA (group stage), the Czech Republic (quarter-final), and Poland (5th-8th place game). Denmark made it to 8th spot, one higher than 2009 and two places higher than the current world ranking.
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Scoring machine – part 1
The scoring machine drastically climbed in the all-time scorer’s ranking during the WFC 2013, in which her amount of goals was increased from four to fourteen. Ten goals, in six games, were made. Cecilia Di Nardo scored seven in the group stage, against Japan (2), Denmark (4), and Germany. The remaining three goals were all scored in the ranking game for 11th place against Australia, which was won 4-9.
Fourteen goals in 2015 – scoring machine part 2
In Tampere, Denmark reached 10th place, but Di Nardo made it to the first spot on the top scorers’ list with 18 (14+4) points. In the group stage against Australia, Singapore, and Japan, Di Nardo scored ten times, followed by two goals in the playoff game against Germany. However, a missed penalty shot turned out to be fatal: Germany moved on to the quarterfinals, while Denmark had to play for place 9-12th.
The final game in which Di Nardo scored was against Russia, and perhaps this was one of her best games ever. Denmark won 6-7 and there was only one goal where Di Nardo wasn’t directly involved – she scored four goals and two assists!
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2017: all-time top scorer – but only for days
Cecilia Di Nardo was at 28 goals in total before the WFC Bratislava and for the third time in a row, she reached double digits as she scored ten goals. Against Germany, she scored her 38th goal, one more than Emelie Lindström and Hermine Dahlerus (both Sweden).
READ – Cecilia Di Nardo’s two-day record
The only player that could surpass her again was Corin Rüttimann (Switzerland) – which she did. In Rüttimann’s final game at the WFC 2017, the bronze game against the Czech Republic, she scored all three goals and put her total number of goals at 40. Di Nardo lost her record only two days after she took it!
The story continues: Di Nardo takes back the record
In 2019, both protagonists of the 2017 edition are back: both Rüttimann and Di Nardo will play. Rüttimann scored six goals so far in the three group stage games, but Di Nardo has now scored nine goals already and surpassed Rüttimann: 47 goals!
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