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Leônidas scored a record eight World Cup goals for Brazil, coming at the 1934 and 1938 tournaments. Ademir scored a record nine World Cup goals for Brazil, all coming at the 1950 tournament. Sándor Kocsis was the first player to score ten or more goals in a single World Cup: he scored a record eleven goals in just five matches for Hungary ...
Leônidas scored a record 8 goals for Brazil at the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups. Ademir scored a record 9 goals for Brazil at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Sándor Kocsis was the first player to have scored 10 or more goals in an edition. He scored a record 11 goals in just 5 matches. Just Fontaine scored a record 13 goals at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
The system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win , 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers; List of FIFA World Cup penalty shoot-outs; List of FIFA World Cup red cards; List of FIFA World Cup referees; List of players who have appeared in the most FIFA World Cups
He scored the opening and closing goal of the final in 2018. Geoff Hurst and Kylian Mbappé are the only men's players to score a hat trick in a final. Only two players have scored in two consecutive FIFA World Cup finals: Vavá and Mbappé. Only two scorers, Pelé and Mbappé, have scored in a final goal as teenagers. [1]
This year he scored 18 and led the LA Galaxy to a fourth-place finish in the Western Conference, the franchise’s best since 2016. Playing in L.A. also serves as a reminder to Chicharito of how ...
Lionel Messi is the player with the most games played at the FIFA World Cup, and one of only six along with German Lothar Matthäus, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Mexicans Antonio Carbajal, Andrés Guardado, and Rafael Márquez to have entered the field in five different tournaments.
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...