Leader on and off the pitch, Calleri enjoying his best season at São Paulo | OneFootball

Never has the chant of the São Paulo fans for their center forward made so much sense…

With nine goals scored in 15 games, the Argentine Calleri is having his best start to a season with Tricolor.

With the same number of games, previously, the Argentine’s best starts to a year had been 2022, with eight goals, and 2021 and 2024, with five goals each.

In general terms, looking at the first 15 games of each player in the season, the last players to achieve a similar feat were Gilberto and Luis Fabiano (the latter, three times). The first, with ten goals in 2017, and the second with nine goals in 2014, 12 goals in 2013, and 14 goals in 2012.

As a curiosity, the highest number of goals scored by a player in the first 15 games of the season is 31, an absurd feat accomplished by the star Waldemar de Brito in 1933. (Friedenreich scored 22 in 1931 and Serginho Chulapa 20 in 1982).

The scorer of the goal that sealed the 2-1 comeback win over Bragantino on Sunday (15), Calleri has now become the top São Paulo scorer in the history of the matchup against Bragantino. The Argentine has found the back of the net against the interior club four times, one more than André Silva, Bentinho, Lucas, Luis Fabiano, Müller, Pablo, Palhinha, and Paulo.

Additionally, the number 9 has now scored his 28th goal that secured a win for Tricolor. In history, he is the 19th player with the most goals of this kind (among the current squad, he trails only Luciano, with 34, in 14th place). Renato holds the last spot in the top 10, with 41 goals, and the leader in this category is Serginho Chulapa, with 73.

In the 21st century, the Argentine is the fourth player with the most goals of this type, behind only Luis Fabiano (62), Rogério Ceni (42), and Luciano (34).

In the Brazilian Championship, Calleri has now reached his 13th winning goal, matching the numbers of Careca and França. Now, the striker is the seventh highest scorer in this regard, behind Serginho Chulapa (29), Luis Fabiano (27), Luciano (22), Rogério Ceni (18), Müller (17), and Dagoberto (14).

In terms of winning goals that marked exactly the comeback, breaking the tie in the match, Calleri’s goal earned him a spot in the top 10 of this statistic. It was the Argentine’s 12th goal of this kind—tying him with Teixeirinha.

The top nine are Serginho Chulapa (26), Müller (23), Pedro Rocha (21), Luciano (19), Toninho Guerreiro (17), Rogério Ceni (16), Luis Fabiano (15), Raí (14), and Terto, with 13 goals.

In the 21st century, the main scorers in this aspect are Luciano, with 19 goals; Luis Fabiano and Rogério Ceni, with 15; and, of course, Calleri with 12. And finally, in terms of the Brazilian Championship, the ranking is led by Luciano, with 12 goals, followed by Rogério Ceni (10), Luis Fabiano (9), Müller (8), Hernanes and Serginho Chulapa (6), and Calleri, Hugo, Pablo, and Pedro Rocha, with five each.

This was São Paulo’s 446th comeback victory in its history and the third of this kind this season—matching, in just 15 games, what happened in 68 matches in 2024 and 2025. In contrast, Tricolor has not lost in 2026 after taking the lead—and the last year this lasted until the end was 1992…

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