29 days to go: Scoring sensations
29 players from 19 countries have had a honour of being a heading or joint-leading goalscorer during a 20 prior editions of a FIFA World Cup™. Argentina’s Guillermo Stabile was a initial of them, pleasantness of a 8 goals he scored during a initial universe finals during Uruguay 1930, while Colombia’s James Rodriguez was a latest to join that list, interjection to his six-goal transport during Brazil 2014.
France’s Just Fontaine still binds a record for a many goals scored during a singular World Cup: 13 during Sweden 1958. Gerd Muller ran him tighten in grabbing 10 goals to assistance West Germany finish third during Mexico 1970, while a scoring honours were really uniformly common during Chile 1962, with 6 players pity tip mark with 4 goals apiece.
At any World Cup between Argentina 1978 and France 1998, a heading goalscorers any struck 6 goals. Mario Kempes started a trend, with Paolo Rossi stability it during Spain 1982, followed by Gary Lineker during Mexico 1986, Salvatore Schillaci during Italy 1990, Oleg Salenko and Hristo Stoichkov during USA 1994, and Davor Suker in France. Brazil striker Ronaldo afterwards lifted a bar once some-more with 8 goals during Korea/Japan 2002.
Ronaldo’s altogether total of 15 World Cup goals kick a record set by Muller in 1974 and stood until 2014, when Germany’s Miroslav Klose struck a 16th idea of a career that spanned 4 uninterrupted universe finals. Just for good measure, Klose also bent out with a World Cup winners’ award in Brazil.
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