Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani and 20 Other Great International Partnerships

Providing that they make it through this week's playoff tie against Jordan as expected, the forthcoming World Cup finals look to be the perfect place for the Uruguay pair of Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani to display their skills.

Despite Suarez's apparent wishes only one of the forwards moved clubs in the summer, but the Liverpool man hasn't let that get him down as he's returned to score eight goals in six Premier League games this season.

Cavani, despite apparently being in the shadow of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, has plundered 11 strikes in 16 games since his summer switch to Paris Saint-Germain, and both men will already have one eye on Brazil already.

If they fair well next summer, then they could go down as one of the all-time great international strike partnerships, but who are the best?

Here we look at 20 combinations that served their countries well.

Marcelo Salas and Ivan Zamorano (Chile)

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If the Uruguayan duo need any inspiration then they need only look towards the impact made by another South American pair at the 1998 World Cup in France.

Chile's Marcelo Salas scored four goals as his side reached the second round of the tournament, with the River Plate forward thriving in space created for him by his captain Ivan Zamorano, who had been prolific in qualification matches.

Salas' four strikes ensured that his country remained unbeaten in their group before a second round loss to Brazil, with his performances earning him a big money move to Lazio that summer.

Romario and Bebeto (Brazil)

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This Brazilian pairing shared eight goals between them as their country won their fourth world crown in the USA in 1994.

Famous for much more than just his "rocking the baby" celebration, Bebeto scored crucial goals in the second round and quarter-final victories for Brazil, whilst Romario struck five times including the late winner in the semi-final against Sweden.

The pair sit third and fifth on Brazil's all-time top goalscorers list, with only Ronaldo and Pele ahead of Romario, who proved that the union with Bebeto isn't quite as strong as it once was when he sacked his former strike partner after just eight games as head coach of Rio de Janeiro side America in 2010 (Daily Mail).

Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Alcides Ghiggia (Uruguay)

These two could be considered the Suarez and Cavani of their day, but the current pairing would have to score in the World Cup final to match their level of adoration in Uruguay.

Although not a traditional strike partnership (in fact it was Oscar Miguez who was the team's out-and-out forward, scoring five goals at the tournament including a hat-trick in an 8-0 win over Bolivia), it was Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Alcides Ghiggia who scored the goals which stunned Brazil and earned Uruguay their second World Cup in 1950.

Playing in front of their own fans in Rio, Brazil took the lead early in the second half only for Schiaffino and Ghiggia to turn the tables with their third and fourth goals of the tournament respectively.

Uruguay's 2-1 victory is still regarded as one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history.

Jan Koller and Milan Baros (Czech Republic)

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This classic big man-little man combination helped the Czech Republic to the semi-finals of Euro 2004, where they eventually ran into an unstoppable Greek roadblock.

Milan Baros, then at Liverpool, was the top scorer at the tournament with five goals, a tally that he was helped towards by the contributions of his giant teammate Jan Koller, who was a Borussia Dortmund player at the time.

Both forwards scored in the classic come-from-behind victory over the Netherlands in the group stages, whilst both found the net again in a 3-0 quarter final victory over Denmark.

The pair are out on their own as the top scorers in their country's history, with Koller's tally of 55 coming in 14 ahead of his frequent partner.

Ferenc Puskas and Sandor Kocsis (Hungary)

These two were the spearheads of the "Magical Magyars" Hungarian team of the early 1950s.

At the head of coach Gusztav Sebes' 2-3-3-2 formation, Ferenc Puskas and Sandor Kocsis caused havoc to opposition defences, with the legendary Puskas scoring twice in the famous 6-3 win over England at Wembley in 1953.

A year later, both forwards scored two goals in Hungary's 7-1 victory over the same opposition in Budapest, whilst Kocsis plundered 11 goals in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, where Hungary led 2-0 in the final against West Germany only to lose 3-2.

Fernando Torres and David Villa (Spain)

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By Euro 2008 everyone had become aware of the style and effectiveness of "tiki-taka." Spain just needed players who were going to finish off the many chances they create.

Enter David Villa and Fernando Torres, with the former firing four goals to end as the tournament's top goalscorer and the latter hitting the winner in the final against Germany in Vienna.

Torres' struggles with form and fitness and a broken leg for Villa has seen the partnership stutter somewhat since then, but they were the preferred pairing at the beginning of the 2010 World Cup, where Spain clinched a first global crown and Villa scored five goals, equaling the tournament high.

Pele and Vava (Brazil)

Just Fontaine hogged the headlines at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden thanks to his record 13 goals, but it was the 17-year-old Pele and his strike partner Vava who lifted the trophy following 11 strikes between them.

Both men scored twice in the 5-2 final victory over hosts Sweden, whilst Pele had grabbed a hat-trick in semi-final victory over Fontaine's France, again by a 5-2 scoreline.

Pele missed the 1962 World Cup final through injury, with Vava's goal in the 3-1 win over Czechoslovakia in that clash seeing him join Pele, Paul Breitner and Zinedine Zidane on the list of men to have scored goals in two World Cup finals.

Geoff Hurst and Roger Hunt (England)

Geoff Hurst's hat-trick in the 1966 World Cup final victory over West Germany is the stuff of English sporting legend, but heading into the final he'd been out-scored by teammate Roger Hunt.

Liverpool's Hunt was considered to be a controversial selection ahead of the free-scoring Jimmy Greaves, but he found the net in a group stage win over Mexico and then scored both goals in a 2-0 victory against France.

Hunt then partnered Hurst in the final at Wembley, and was the closest England player to the goalline when England's crucial third goal was given in the first half of extra-time.

Englishmen everywhere will tell you that Hurst's shot was clearly over the line, and the hosts went on to achieve their one and only major tournament victory.

Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham (England)

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They came fairly close in another tournament they hosted 30 years later though, when Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham spearheaded the English assault on Euro 96.

Shearer ended as the tournament's top scorer with five goals, with both he and the deeper-lying Sheringham finding the net in a 4-1 group stage victory over the Netherlands.

England beat Spain on penalties to advance to the last four at the tournament, where their old penalty curse returned to haunt them as they lost to Germany on spot kicks in front of a distraught national stadium.

Pele and Jairzinho (Brazil)

These two weren't a classic strike partnership, but they were certainly the two greatest goal threats in the classic Brazil team at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.

Jairzinho scored in every one of Brazil's matches in the competition, ending up with seven to bring up a shared tally of 11 with the legendary Pele.

Both scored in the 4-1 final victory over Italy, and although it was just Pele who achieved worldwide fame for his performances, Jairzinho is still regarded as one of the finest players to ever play for Brazil by many.

Jurgen Klinsmann and Rudi Voller (West Germany)

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Rudi Voller scored three goals at the 1986 World Cup, including one as a substitute in the 3-2 defeat to Argentina in the final.

It was when he was paired with Jurgen Klinsmann in the 1990 tournament in Italy that the sparks flew though, with the pair firing the goals that propelled their side to the latter stages.

With Lothar Matthaus playing behind them in midfield, both Klinsmann and Voller scored three goals each as the Germans made their way into another final against Argentina, which they won 1-0 thanks to Andreas Brehme's late penalty.

Raul and Fernando Morientes (Spain)

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Before Spain had reached the heights that they are capable of today, they were well-known to international football observers as one of the game's great underachievers.

They could boast a pretty gifted young strikeforce though, with both Raul, at just 20, and Fernando Morientes, at 22, finding the net during the 1998 World Cup in France.

Morientes missed out on Euro 2000, but both he and Raul managed to score three goals each at the 2002 World Cup, where Spain reached the quarter-finals before being controversially knocked out by joint-hosts South Korea.

The emergence of the likes of Torres and Villa was starting to see Raul and Morientes' chances fade though, with the pair bowing out before things really got good for the Spanish.

Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo (Brazil)

Not strictly a partnership no, as there were three of them, but Ronaldinho has to be included here as it was he who helped load the bullets for Rivaldo and particularly Ronaldo to fire.

Then terrific trio did the bulk of their damage at the 2002 World Cup, where they scored 15 of Brazil's 18 goals on their way to a fifth world title.

Ronaldo, seemingly washed up only months previously, fired eight including two in the final victory over Brazil, with Rivaldo scoring in each of his side's first five matches at the tournament in Japan and South Korea.

Martin Dahlin, Tomas Brolin and Kennet Andersson (Sweden)

Well if we're allowed three Brazilians then we can have three Swedes too.

Kennet Andersson (No. 19 in the picture) wasn't originally in the Sweden team which would go on to reach the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup, but he ultimately ended up as their top scorer.

Along with Martin Dahlin (No. 10) and Tomas Brolin (No. 11), and with Henrik Larsson in reserve, Andersson thrived and scored five goals to go along with Dahlin's four and Brolin's three as the Swedes impressed everyone who saw them in the US.

Success didn't last long for them though, as the same set of players failed to quality for the European Championships in England two years later.

Diego Maradona and Jorge Valdano (Argentina)

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Yes, that's right. Diego Maradona didn't always do it on his own.

At the 1986 World Cup he played behind future Real Madrid manager and sporting director Jorge Valdano, with the pair sharing nine goals between them as the Argentineans achieved a second world title.

Maradona infamously scored twice in the quarter-final against England and then twice more in the semi against Belgium, before his inspirational display in the final against West Germany helped his side to a 3-2 victory, in which Valdano scored Argentina's second before Jorge Burruchaga's late winner.

Christian Vieri and Roberto Baggio (Italy)

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For a while Italy were looking good in the 1998 World Cup, and that was largely down to their strike partnership of Christian Vieri and Roberto Baggio.

Both scored in their topsy-turvy opening 2-2 draw with Chile, before they inspired their side to victories over Cameroon and Austria.

Vieri scored his fifth of the tournament in a 1-0 win over Norway in the second round, but although both found the net in the quarter-final penalty shootout against France in Paris, the hosts prevailed when Luigi Di Biagio missed from 12 yards.

Patrick Kluivert and Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands)

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The pace and power of Patrick Kluivert and the elegance of Dennis Bergkamp made for a formidable partnership for the Dutch in the late 90s and early 2000s, with both finding the net at Euro 96 in England.

The Netherlands reached the semi-finals of the World Cup two years later, with Bergkamp's magic moment coming in Marseille when his stunning late goal beat Argentina in the quarter-finals, before the Dutch lost on penalties to Brazil in the semis despite Kluivert's late equaliser.

As the joint-hosts of Euro 2000 the Dutch were expected to deliver, but although Kluivert scored five goals to share the Golden Boot they crashed out at the semi-final stage, again on penalties.

Samuel Eto'o and Patrick Mboma (Cameroon)

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Ten years separate the current Chelsea forward and the former Paris Saint-Germain striker, but that didn't stop them forming a formidable pairing which frequently took Africa by storm.

Both scored four goals as Cameroon won the 2000 African Cup of Nations, before Mboma grabbed three and Eto'o one as the Indomitable Lions won the tournament again two years later.

At 17, Eto'o was the youngest player at the 1998 World Cup, where Mboma scored Cameroon's equaliser in a draw with Chile. Four years later, Eto'o grabbed Cameroon's winner in a World Cup group victory over Saudi Arabia in Saitama.

Luis Fabiano and Adriano (Brazil)

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There was a period in the mid-2000s when Adriano threatened to break out and become the next truly great Brazilian forward. That was until he, well, broke out in other ways.

Before he piled the pounds on though, he was the key man in Brazil's 2004 Copa America victory in Peru, where he scored seven goals and strike partner Luis Fabiano grabbed two.

Adriano scored in the quarter and semi-finals, before his 93rd minute equaliser against Argentina in Lima took the final to extra-time, following which the Brazilians won 4-2 on penalties.

Diego Forlan and Luis Suarez (Uruguay)

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Suarez has been part of a successful partnership at a World Cup before, with his union with Diego Forlan at the 2010 World Cup proving crucial to his country's run to the semi-finals.

Forlan scored twice in a group win over hosts South Africa, before Suarez's winner against Mexico secured qualification for the second round, where the then Ajax forward's two fine goals saw off South Korea.

A fine free-kick from Forlan levelled the scores in the quarter-final against Ghana, before a much more famous intervention from Suarez led to him being sent off and the match going to penalties.

Uruguay won, but Suarez was suspended for the semi-final against the Netherlands in Cape Town, where an equaliser from Forlan couldn't prevent a 3-2 Dutch win.