The players who scored in all four of Europe's big leagues

Coutinho's route explains how a player reaches four leagues. Inter signed him as a teenager from Brazil, and he played sparingly there before Liverpool bought him in 2013. He became one of the best players in England, Barcelona paid a club record fee for him in 2018, it did not work out, and the loans that followed, first to Bayern and then to Aston Villa, added a fourth country. A career that went wrong at its peak went to more places as a result. His 47 in England are also the most any of the thirteen scored in a single one of the four leagues.

Obafemi Martins is second with 69, the most evenly spread total on the table: 28 in the Premier League for Newcastle and Birmingham, 28 in Serie A for Inter, 7 in La Liga for Levante and 6 in the Bundesliga for Wolfsburg. He was quick, scored spectacular goals, and was always attractive to a club needing a striker for a season or two.

Stevan Jovetić has 65, mostly the 41 he scored in Serie A for Fiorentina and Inter. Manchester City, Sevilla and Hertha Berlin gave him his other three leagues, each for a short spell. Injuries interrupted his time at City, and he never quite recovered the form he had shown in Florence.

Bojan Krkić scored 26 La Liga goals for Barcelona as a teenager and was spoken of as Messi's successor. Instead his career became a series of moves: Roma, Milan, Ajax, Stoke, Mainz and Alavés among them. His single Bundesliga goal, for Mainz, is the one that completes his four. Stoke, where he scored 14 Premier League goals, was the place he played his best football after leaving Barcelona.

Kevin-Prince Boateng's 45 are split almost exactly between Italy and Germany, 16 each, with 10 in La Liga and 3 in England. He played for Tottenham and Portsmouth, Milan twice, Schalke, Eintracht Frankfurt, Las Palmas and, briefly, Barcelona, which is the most unexpected stop on any career in this table.

Jon Dahl Tomasson is the oldest career here. He scored 3 Premier League goals for Newcastle in 1997/98, then went to Feyenoord, Milan, Stuttgart and Villarreal, scoring in each of the other three leagues. His 22 for Milan came in the years when Milan won the Champions League with him as a regular substitute.

Antonio Rüdiger has scored in all four leagues as a centre-back: 2 for Stuttgart, 2 for Roma, 9 for Chelsea and 3 for Real Madrid. His 16 goals are a reminder of how this table works. Scoring once is enough to count a league, so a defender who plays in four countries and attacks set pieces will get there eventually.

Shkodran Mustafi's 16 came in a similar way, at Sampdoria, Valencia, Arsenal and Schalke, with seven each in England and Spain. João Cancelo, with 14, played for Valencia, Inter, Juventus, Manchester City, Bayern and Barcelona in a career that has seldom stayed anywhere for long.

Justin Kluivert, with 35, is the youngest of the thirteen. He scored 21 for Bournemouth, the most of his four leagues, after spells at Roma, RB Leipzig and Valencia. His father, Patrick, played for Barcelona and Valencia, Milan and Newcastle, so the family has now scored in all four leagues across two generations, though the dataset only sees the son's.

Jonathan de Guzmán, with 23, is the other midfielder with a full set: Mallorca and Villarreal in Spain, Swansea in the Premier League, Napoli and Chievo in Italy, and Eintracht Frankfurt to finish.

Pierre Womé, with 9, is the smallest total among the thirteen. The Cameroonian left-back played for Bologna, Espanyol, Fulham, Inter and Werder Bremen, among others, and scored at least once for a club in each of the four leagues.

Ronaldo's 495 are the most of anyone, but he never played in the Bundesliga, so he sits fourteenth, first among the three-league players. Below him are Gonzalo Higuaín (237: 125 in Italy, 107 in Spain, 5 for Chelsea), Edin Džeko (223: Italy, Germany and England), Ciro Immobile (206, almost all in Serie A), Samuel Eto'o (202), and Fernando Torres and Zlatan Ibrahimović on 189 each.

Immobile's row is the curious one: 201 Serie A goals, then a short spell at Dortmund and another at Sevilla that produced three goals and two. Torres is the opposite, with 103 in Spain and 85 in England before a single Serie A goal at Milan. Ibrahimović also scored in France, which this table cannot see.

In Career Path, the four-league players make the hardest puzzles in the game. A timeline that runs through Inter, Liverpool, Barcelona and Bayern is gettable. One that runs through Bologna, Espanyol and Fulham before Werder Bremen is Pierre Womé, and very few people will find him without every clue the game can give.