Top Scorer Of The World Cup Throughout Time, Can There Be Singi Klose?

Top World Cup Scores Throughout Time (Unsplash)

YOGYAKARTA - No player has scored in the World Cup finals as many as German striker Miroslav Klose, who scored 16 goals in 24 appearances in four separate tournaments. The only other players who scored four World Cup tournaments were Uwe Seeler's compatriots, Cristiano Ronaldo and Pe way. Wow, this is in the top score of the world cup of all time!

Klose made his 2002 World Cup debut at tournaments in Japan and South Korea and started with the best start, scoring a hat-trick in Germany's 8-0 win over Saudi Arabia in Sapporo Dome. He was one of 13 players who scored a hat-trick on their World Cup debut, but no player has managed to do so since Klose today in June 2002.

Klose then scored in all three German group stage games at the 2002 World Cup, but failed to score in four games of their knockout system, as they ended up as champions who lost to Brazil - which ended as the tournament's top scorer, with Ronaldo's goal. eight goals led them to victory.

The German striker added five more goals at the 2006 World Cup in his home country this time it was enough to secure the Golden Boot in the tournament. Four more goals followed the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, before adding two more goals in 2014 in Brazil to overtake Ronaldo's tally of 15 very important 16 goals coming ahead of Ronaldo, who watched in the stands in Belo Horizonte as Brazil firmly lost 7-1 to Germany.

Eleven of the Klose World Cup goals were created in 10 Group Elimination matches, while only five goals were scored in 11 knockout system matches in the tournament none of these goals were scored in two appearances in the World Cup finals (2002 and 2014).

Overall, 16 Klose goals in the World Cup came from just 63 shots a phenomenal record by converting 25.4% of his shots in the four tournaments he participated in.

15 Goals: Ronaldo

While Ronaldo no longer holds the record for being the World Cup's top scorer, his tally of 15 goals in just 19 appearances in three tournaments is admired.

His debut World Cup tournament came in 1998, with four goals in seven appearances in all tournaments in France. His Brazilian side lost 3-0 in the final to host France, with Ronaldo's performance in the game shrouded in mystery, having originally been expelled from starting XI Brazil, before appearing in the next edition was shared minutes later.

His 2002 World Cup performances were not too controversial, the superstar won the Golden Boot with eight goals in seven games, including two goals in Germany's 2-0 final win over Yokohama where he won the man of the match award... forming a deadly attack with Rivaldo and Ronaldinho, Brazil's success in the tournament is never in doubt.

The most impressive aspect of Ronaldo's 2002 appearance was that he spent a long time injury before the tournament following a two-year gap in the league before the finals, meaning he missed the entire Brazilian qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup.

Despite finishing as the top scorer in CONMEBOL qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup with 10 goals, there was a question mark over Ronaldo's fitness and physical condition ahead of the tournament. He ended with three goals in five games before Brazil was knocked out of host Germany in the quarter-finals, scoring his overall goal in the World Cup final to 15 recordings at the time, overtaking the record Gerd M\"uller which has been around since 1974 (14 targets).

14 Goals: Gerd M\"uller

Gerd M\"uller managed to score 14 goals in just two World Cup tournaments, with his 10 goals on his way to winning the Golden Boot at the 1970 World Cup, one in just three chances a player made doubles in one edition. In fact, no player scored as many as M\"uller in 1970 in one of the last 15 men's World Cup final tournaments.

The West German striker scored in each of his first five appearances at the World Cup, including successive hat-tricks in the match against Bulgaria and Peru in Mexico 1970, with just three days between trebles. Only one other player scored a hat-trick in two consecutive World Cup appearances, namely Hungary's S way of Kocsis in 1954 (also in four days).

M\"uller scored every game in the 1970s World Cup to and included a semifinal defeat to Italy (two goals) but failed to score in the third/fourth playoffs against Uruguay.

The 1974 World Cup saw Bayern Munich record scorer M\"uller add four more goals in seven appearances, including a winning goal in a 2-1 win over the Netherlands in the final at his own fans at Olympias Stadium in Munich.

M\"uller holds the record for all-time leading goalscorer at the World Cup with 14 goals for 32 years, before Ronaldo Brasil followed him in 2006. He was known throughout his career as one of the best strikers in the goal area all 14 goals in the World Cup goals came in the box, with half (7) into box six yards.

13 Goals: Only Fontaine

The record for the most goalscoring goal in a World Cup final belonged to French striker Just Fontaine, who scored 13 goals in six games in the 1958 tournament. This is the only World Cup tournament he has played, but he will definitely succeed.

He scored in every one of his six appearances in the 1958 tournament in Sweden, with his 13 goals more than double his next-to-leading goalscorer in the year's final Pelin and Helmut Rahn both with six goals.

12 Goals: Pele

Pemarin ranks fifth for the most goals scored in the World Cup finals, with his 12 goals in four tournaments. Although he never won the Golden Boot award, he won the World Cup Player of the Year award in 1970 thanks to four goals and six assists on his way to help Brazil win the title one of three World Cup tournaments won by Pegolin, a record tally.

11 Goals: J\"urgen Klinsmann and S\"ohdor Kocsis

Both German striker J\"urgen Klinsmann and Hungarian legend S waydor Kocsis scored 11 goals in the World Cup final tournament.

Kocsis scored 68 goals overall for Hungary in their golden era, with the only player to score more goals in international football for his country being another legend, Ferenc Pusk happened (85).

Kocsis has only appeared in one World Cup tournament for Hungary, namely in the 1954 finals in Switzerland. In that tournament, he scored 11 goals in just five games, with France's Just Fontaine the only player to score more often in one World Cup (13 in 1958).

So after knowing the top score of the world cup of all time, watch other interesting news on VOI, it's time to revolutionize news!