Gerd Muller helped his country win the 1974 World Cup in West Germany as well as Euro 1972. In 62 games for West Germany, he also scored 68 goals. He played his whole Bundesliga career at Bayern Munich, where he won the league title and the German Cup four times. After his retirement in 1983, he worked as a coach until he died of cancer in 2013 at the age of 73.
Muller is still the all-time top scorer at the World Cup with 16 goals. He broke a record held by Alfred Jedinak who had 15 goals when Australia defeated South Korea 4-2 after extra time in the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup.
Of those 16 goals, three were penalties and one was an own goal. The other ten came from open play.
Germany went on to beat Poland 4-1 in the final. Muller started the match but was replaced by Uli Hoeness after 69 minutes due to injury. Muller ended up playing only six minutes of the final before being substituted out again.
His replacement, Hoeness, went on to score two more goals to give him a World Cup-record five goals in one match. It also remains Germany's biggest World Cup victory.
Muller's record has since been broken twice. Brazilian striker Ronaldo scored 29 goals during Brazil's victorious campaign at the 2002 World Cup.
Müller, Dieter Who were the top scorers at the 1976 European Championship? Dieter Muller of West Germany finished the finals with four goals, including a hat-trick against Yugoslavia in the semi-finals in his international debut, and then struck in the final three days later. His teammate Klaus Augenthaler was also on target twice.
The most successful player at this year's European Championships is Germany's Lothar Matthäus, who has two goals. His countryman Berti Vogts is the most successful coach with two victories.
Matthäus made his international debut in 1991 and was part of the German team that won the UEFA Euro 1992 title. He played another eight years for Germany, scoring 40 goals. In 2000 he moved to Italy where he continued to play until 2011, when he ended his career with Bayer Leverkusen. During his time in Italy, Matthäus won one Serie A title and one Coppa Italia trophy with Milan. He announced his retirement at the end of the 2011/12 season but returned to football after one year away from the game.
During his second spell at Bayer Leverkusen, Matthäus helped them win the DFB-Pokal in 2012 before announcing his return to international football again. He has been named as Germany's manager for the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship in France.
Ernst Willimowski of Poland was the first player to score four goals in a single match and yet lose against Brazil in 1938. Brazil's Leonidas also scored three goals in the game, which his side won 6-5. Austria beat Switzerland 7-5 in the highest scoring game in World Cup history in 1954.
Each tournament's top scorers At the 1958 FIFA World Cup, Just Fontaine set a record with 13 goals. In the 1966 World Cup, Eusebio scored nine goals for Portugal. During the 2014 World Cup, Colombia's James Rodriguez scored six goals.
Three different players have scored in four consecutive finals events. Pele of Brazil and Uwe Seeler of West Germany each scored in the finals in 1958, 1962, 1966, and 1970, while German Miroslav Klose scored in 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014.
More than 1,250 male footballers have scored goals in men's World Cup final events since the first goal was scored by French player Lucien Laurent at the 1930 FIFA World Cup, with just 97 scoring five or more. Miroslav Klose has the most goals for a male player, with 16.
Robert Prosinecki (who was awarded the 1990 FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award for his performance for Yugoslavia) also scored two goals in matches against Jamaica and the Netherlands, making him the only player in World Cup history to score goals in finals tournaments for two different countries.
Goals aplenty The 1954 World Cup in Switzerland had the greatest ever goals-to-game ratio, with an average of 5.38 goals scored in each of the 26 games. Among the highest scoring games in this tournament were Austria (7, Switzerland 5), Hungary (9, South Korea 0).
This article will identify the goal scorers in all 2006 FIFA World Cup matches, as well as which players assisted in goals scored during the competition, overall scoring statistics, how matches concluded in the competition, match awards, clean sheets by participating teams, overall results, and the stadiums the games were played in.
These are the results of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which was held in Germany. Miroslav Klose was awarded the Golden Boot for his five World Cup goals. Andrea Pirlo was named Man of the Match three times, more than any other player. The Yashin Award went to Gianluigi Buffon.
Goals aplenty The 1954 World Cup in Switzerland had the greatest ever goals-to-game ratio, with an average of 5.38 goals scored in each of the 26 games. Among the highest scoring games in this tournament were Austria (7, Switzerland 5), Hungary (9, South Korea 0).
Pele is the "MAN OF THE TOURNAMENT." Yes, Just Fontaine set a World Cup record with 13 goals, but nobody captivated Swedish fans like Pele. With six goals, including a double in the final, the 17-year-old from a low-income family made his mark on the globe.
He returned to Brazil after the tournament with his reputation enhanced rather than diminished by his performance - or rather lack thereof - for his country. As far as footballers go, he was already quite famous.
However, what really boosted his popularity was not just how good he was but also how hard he worked to be even better. He played in every single one of Brazil's matches at the 1958 World Cup (with a few exceptions due to injury) and scored six goals - three before he had reached 18 years old. No other player has ever matched this feat at any other sporting event around the world.
His career later turned out to be even more impressive: in 11 seasons with Santos, he never missed a game until he retired in 1969 at the age of 29. During that time he won five Brazilian championships, four Rio de Janeiro State titles, and one national cup. He remains the top scorer in the history of the club.
After retiring from playing, Pele continued to develop as a footballer and became one of the most important figures in the sport.
He was the first player to score four goals in a World Cup game, in Poland's 6-5 loss to Brazil; his record was eventually equaled by numerous players, but it was only 56 years later, in the 1994 World Cup, that he was surpassed. The FIFA World Cup was supposed to be held in 1942. However, due to the duration of the war, that year was cancelled and instead, in 1950, the tournament was staged in Switzerland. Zico became the first player to score four goals in a World Cup match when he did so in the quarterfinals against North Korea on June 21, 1986.
An athlete who scores multiple goals during a single match is called a "goal scorer". There are several ways for an athlete to score goals in soccer. A goal scorer can be: (1) the person who takes the last shot and manages to score; (2) the person who creates the most opportunities by scoring through their own initiative or by assisting others with goals; or (3) the person who scores the most goals during the tournament. These three categories may not be mutually exclusive - for example, an athlete could be a goal scorer because of category 2 and also because of category 3.
In sports where there is need for skill and technique, such as football, hockey, and basketball, each team has five players on the field at any one time while in sports where strength is important, such as wrestling and boxing, there is often more than one participant on the field at once.
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