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Teófilo Cubillas is the top scorer for Peru at the World Cup, with ten goals. Cristiano Ronaldo is the only male player to score in five different World Cup tournaments. With six goals for Ghana, Asamoah Gyan is the only player outside of Europe or South America to score more than five goals at the World Cup.
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.
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
Each of the 32 participating teams has played at least one match already -- and these players are the ones who stuck out the most. Skip to main content ...
The curtain rises on soccer’s biggest stage Sunday, as the 2022 World Cup kicks off in Qatar. Aging stars will try to go out on a positive note. Young stars will emerge throughout the month-long ...
Pages in category "FIFA World Cup–winning players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 471 total.
26. Jamal Musiala, M, Germany. Born in Germany to a Nigerian father, then raised in England, Musiala left Chelsea to join Bayern Munich at age 16.
The FIFA Young Player Award ("Best Young Player Award" 2006–2010) was awarded for the first time at the 2006 World Cup in Germany and given to Germany's Lukas Podolski. [94] The award is given to the best player in the tournament who is at most 21 years old.