What was he doing there in the first place? 11 goalscoring goalkeepers

Goalkeeper Seny Dieng made headlines for scoring a late equaliser for QPR at Sunderland, so here are 11 more goalscoring shot-stoppers.

1. Rogerio Ceni (131 goals for Sao Paolo, 1997-2015)
That Rogerio Ceni is relatively unknown in this country doesn’t speak much for our levels of insularity, because it really does feel like a stretch to try and think of a greater club legend than Ceni at Sao Paolo. He played 1,249 games for them over 22 years and scored 131 goals, from both penalty and free-kicks.

But despite being considered to be one of Brazil’s greatest ever goalkeepers, Ceni received 17 caps for the national team. He was in the squads for the 2002 and 2006 World Cup finals, but only played twice. He is currently the head coach at Sao Paolo, in his second spell. He’s also coached Fortaleza (also twice), Cruzeiro and Flamengo in his five-and-a-half-year long managerial career.

2. Jose Luis Chilavert (67 goals for various clubs, 1983-2003)
Chilavert being near the top of a list of goalscoring goalkeepers is no great surprise, but the range of clubs that he scored for does still encourage a double-take. He scored for every club side he played for (and scored for every single one of them in the league bar one), and the list is impressive, including San Lorenzo and Velez Sarsfield in Argentina, Penarol in Uruguay, Real Zaragoza in Spain and Strasbourg in France.

Another free-kick and penalty specialist, Chilavert may not have scored as many goals overall as Ceni, but he does hold the record for the international goals for a keeper, having scored eight in 74 appearances for Paraguay. He ended his playing career in 2004 with a testimonial match against a World Stars XI. Predictably he went out with a goal, scored against Rene Higuita.

3. Johnny Vegas Fernandez (45 goals for various clubs, 1997-2017)
The improbably-named Johnny Vegas Fernandez is another international to make this list, having played three times for Peru during a two-decade playing career that saw him make almost 200 appearances over six years for Sport Boys and then 11 different clubs – two more than once – over the remainder of his career. Forty of his goals came in the top division of the Peruvian league.

4. Rene Higuita (43 goals for various clubs, 1985-2009)
As famous for his ‘scorpion kick’ in a friendly against England at Wembley in 1995 as for his goalscoring exploits and other occasionally eccentric goalkeeping decisions, Higuita scored three times in 68…