If there's a game of football being played anywhere, the weight of numbers suggest a Brazilian isn't far away.

From France to Fiji and 100 countries in between are an estimated 2000 footballers with Brazilian passports. That's on top of the 1310 players at the 40 clubs in their top two national divisions, the 2000 or so across the 88 clubs in the two tiers below or the rest playing within their 60 state competitions. Of all those, none have scored more goals this season than Sydney FC striker Bobo.

Second to winning the A-League championship, the honour Bobo wants most is to finish as the most prolific Brazilian of 2017-18. He is on track to claiming that title, having already scored 36 goals in just 37 games.

Brazil's best: Bobo is the joint top scorer this season of all Brazilian players. Credit:Glenn Hunt

Twenty-seven of those goals came in the regular A-League season, winning him the golden boot and setting a record for most goals scored in a single campaign. Bobo bagged eight more in his five FFA Cup games, including the winner in the final, as well as one in the Asian Champions League.