Scoring goals in the World Cup is the wish of many footballers, and the single World Cup goal record comes from France's Fontaine, who scored 13 goals in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, setting a football record.
1. Fontaine scored 13 goals in 6 games
In the first match of the 1958 World Cup, Fontaine scored a hat-trick in france against Paraguay and scored three goals in the remaining two group matches; Fontaine scored two goals in the quarter-final against Northern Ireland; Fontaine scored 1 goal in the semi-final against Brazil, but the seventeen-year-old Pele scored a hat-trick to help Brazil qualify. In the third and fourth place finals, Fontaine staged a senior against Germany, raising the World Cup goal record to 13 goals, and later Muller's 10 goals and 8 goals were difficult to break this record.
2. The development of football techniques and tactics makes it difficult to score goals
In the early days of football, the techniques and tactics were relatively rudimentary, and most of the time it was the results of the players' individual skills that dominated the game, and as the techniques and tactics improved, it became more and more difficult for players to score goals in major games. In the 11 World Cup matches from 1978 to 2018, only Ronaldo scored 8 goals in the World Cup Golden Boot, and the remaining eight all 6 goals, as well as Germany's Klose and Thomas Müller 5 goals.
In the 2018 World Cup, Harry Kane was hailed as the most watery World Cup Golden Boot, he scored 6 goals, but 3 were penalties, 1 was the opponent's oolong ball counted on the captain, and he himself scored only two sports goals.
3. Who has the potential to break Fontaine's record
Four of the active players are expected to break fontaine's record, but it is only possible, after all, fontaine's record has been held for 64 years.
First up is Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored 111 goals for Portugal, surpassing Ali Dei to become the best national team goalscorer in the history of international men's football. In the last match against Spain, Ronaldo scored a hat-trick. As long as Portugal can catch the weak team in the group stage and have the ability to reach the final four, then Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to break the Fontaine record.
The second is Messi, Messi's goal in the national team is far lower than Ronaldo, this is not to blame Messi, Argentina is a place with a lot of frontpower, when Messi joined the national team, there were Tvera, Milito, Ravitch, Higuain, Aguero, Icardi, Lautaro, Messi in the national team is more playing in the midfield forward position, this position is very limited to Messi's ability to score goals, Argentina has no better candidates, once the Argentine coach liberated Messi, then this World Cup Messi also has the opportunity to brush points in weak teams, Broke the record after advancing to the final four.
The third is Mbappe, after the defeat in the European Cup, Mbappe faced a lot of criticism, and the contradiction with Griezmann also became the focus of attention, deschamps need to properly handle the relationship between the two. Mbappe's age is an advantage, Deschamps will most likely pull back Griezmann's position to make Mbappe the core of the attack, the young man is ashamed and courageous, and the explosive power is bound to be terrible.
The fourth is Neymar, Neymar is not as unenterprising as he thinks, in Paris he is more like in Taoguang, do not want to compete with the French gang, once back to brazil, there are so many teammates to help, plus the atmosphere of the Brazilian team is also very harmonious, Neymar must have gained, Neymar now needs to impact the World Cup and the World Cup Golden Boot, and then not rush to get old.
Who do you think will break fontaine's record?