World Cup: highest scorers
The top 12 highest scorers in World Cup history.
Players who have scored 10 or more goals in World Cup competitions. Up
to the end of the 2010 tournament only 12 players had managed to score 10 or
more goals at World Cup finals. Here is
our review of the highest scoring World Cup footballers.
Brazil's Ronaldo is the
top scorer in World Cup finals history having scored 15 goals. His best
tournament was in Korea/Japan in 2002, where he scored 8 goals as Brazil eventually
claimed the trophy. The striker scored four times at World Cup 1998 in France
and a further three times in Germany at the 2006 tournament.
Gerd Müller made his World Cup finals debut for
West Germany in 1970 and celebrated the occasion with 10 goals. He also scored
four times at World Cup 1974 in West Germany including the goal in the final
against the Netherlands that secured his country’s tournament victory.
Miroslav Klose shares second place with fellow
German Gerd Müller. His 14 goals so far
have come in three tournaments: Klose scored five times in his first World Cup
in 2002 (all five goals were headers), another five goals four years later in
Germany 2006 and four more in 2010 in South Africa. If selected for World Cup
2014, Klose would have the opportunity to break Ronaldo’s record of 15 goals at
World Cup finals.
Just Fontaine remains one of only two players to
have scored more than 10 goals at a single World Cup. The French forward scored
13 goals at the 1958 tournament in Sweden and helped his team to finish third.
Unsurprisingly, he won the Golden Shoe award for highest tournament goalscorer.
With his first World Cup goal in 1958, Pelé
became the youngest goal-scorer at a World Cup finals. He scored a total of six
goals in Sweden in 1958 and one goal in each of the next two tournaments in
1962 and 1966. The brilliant Brazilian took his total to 12 in 1970 with four
goals in his final tournament.
Hungary's number 9 Sandor Kocsis scored 11
goals at the 1954 World Cup tournament in Switzerland. Hungary reached the
final which they lost to 3-2 to West Germany.
German striker Jürgen Klinsmann scored three
goals at the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy, five four years later in the USA
and another three at his final tournament at World Cup 1998 in France.
Argentina's Gabriel Batistuta, nicknamed Batigol,
made his World Cup finals debut in 1994 and scored four goals; including three against
Greece. He also appeared at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, scoring five goals
and one goal respectively, taking his total to 10.
Helmut Rahn is one of four players tied on 10
goals in the list of highest scorers at World Cup finals. The German scored
four goals in his first World Cup in 1954, including the winning third goal
against Hungary in the final. At the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Rahn scored a
further six goals.
Teofilo Cubillas shares a record with German
goalscorer Miroslav Klose as they are the only players to have scored five
goals in two World Cup tournaments. The Peruvian scored his goals in the 1970
and 1978 tournaments. Peru failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup.
Poland’s Grzegorz Lato scored seven goals during
the World Cup finals in Germany in 1974 and played a big part in securing his
team third place, scoring the winning goal against Brazil in the third-fourth
play-off match. At the 1978 World Cup finals in Argentina, Lato scored two
goals and he added one more goal four years later in 1982.
England's Gary Lineker scored six times in his
first World Cup in 1986. Four years later, he was part of the England team that
reached the semi-finals and he added four goals to his tally, taking it to 10.
Courtesy by: msn.com
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