Top goal scorers in World Cup Football

Individual Goal Scoring record in World Cup Football Championships

In the series of presenting World cup Football records, lets start looking at some records that are based on individual goal scoring records. As you all know the players who score goals will come into fame faster than any other player within the team. And this is very appropriate because at the end of the day only goal scoring will win a soccer match.

I am listing some top players who scored 10 or more goals in their career till date in World Cup Football Championships.

World Record in maximum goals scored in world cup football tournament:

Ronaldo of Brazil - he holds the record of scoring 15 goals till date.

Gerd Müller of Germany is second with 14 goals

Just Fontaine of France third with 13 goals

Great man - Pele of Brazil - 4th with 12 goals

Two players in the 5th position with 11 goals scored
Germany's Jürgen Klinsmann
Hungary's Sándor Kocsis

There are 6 players who scored 10 goals till date
Gabriel Batistuta of Argentina
Teófilo Cubillas of Peru
Miroslav Klose of Germany
Grzegorz Lato of Poland
Gary Lineker of England
Helmut Rahn of Germany

Some of the above players are still playing football for their country and will represent this years 2010 World Cup Football Championship in South Africa. Let us see if any of these records will be broken or if we get to see any new players in this list.

Also Read:
Hat-tricks at World Cup Football matches

Group B matches and team profiles in World cup Football

Group B match fixtures, teams and favorites

Some time back we have taken a look at the team matches and the schedule of Group A Football matches being played in 2010 world cup football championship. Now let us see the next Group and how the teams are composed.

The teams that are part of Group B in 2010 South Africa World cup Football Championships:

Argentina (World Cup Appearances: 14; World Cup Wins: 2 (1978, 1986); Manager Diego Maradona)
Greece (World Cup Appearances: 1; World Cup Wins: 0; Manager: Otto Rehhagel)
Nigeria (World Cup Appearances: 3; World Cup Wins: 0; Manager: Amodu Shuaibu)
South Korea (World Cup Appearances: 7; World Cup Wins: 0; Manager: Huh Jung Moo)

Fixtures of Group B matches

12 June 2010
Argentina vs Nigeria at Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg
Korea Republic vs Greece at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth

17 June 2010
Argentina vs Korea Republic at Soccer City, Johannesburg
Greece vs Nigeria at Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein

22 June 2010
Greece vs Argentina at Peter Mokaba Stadium, Polokwane
Nigeria vs Korea Republic at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban

Individual Records in World Cup Football Tournament

In one of the previous articles we did go through the World Cup Football records by countries, now let us see how individual performances led to establishing the world records in World cup football championships. There are so many records that stand in football players name - I will highlight some here and will continue posting other article for records related to Goal scoring.

Individual Records in World Cup football Championships

Most Football World cup Tournaments Played:
There are 2 players as of now with this record. 5 is the number of times an individual player had played this tournament.
Antonio Carbajal of Mexico in 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962 and 1966
Lothar Matthäus of Germany in 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998

Most number of times an individual has been with the winning team
Pele from Brazil has figured in 3 times as part of the World Cup Soccer winning team. These were in 1958, 1962 and 1970

Most matches played by an individual player
25 appearances in Football matches by Lothar Matthäus of Germany between 1982 and 1998

Most times a player was part of a winning side in a world cup football match
Cafu of Brazil was part of 16 matches

Most appearances as a captain in World cup matches
16 by Diego Maradona of Argentina

Youngest Player to play a world cup football match
Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland - 17 years and 41 days against Yugoslavia in 1982

Youngest player to captain a world cup team
Tony Meola of United States - 21 years and 109 days against Czechoslovakia on June 10, 1990

Oldest Player to play in World Cup Football tournament
Roger Milla of Cameroon - 42 years and 39 days against Russia in 1994

Oldest player to captain a world cup team
Peter Shilton of England - 40 years and 292 days against Italy on July 7, 1990

Other Football Records:
List of Hat-tricks scored in world cup football games