Who was the leading scorer in the FIFA 1978 World Cup?
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Mario Kempes (Argentina) 6 goals
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He is the all-time leading Fifa world cup scorer. He could run a bit more though.
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It was against Belgium, in the opening match of WC 1982. Belgium won 1-0, scoring Van der Bergh.\n\nMaradona did not go to 1978 WC, despite being a boywonder.
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it's Gurd Muller. he as 14 goals and he was in the West Germany team that won the world cup 1974
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Geoff Hurst - From the Wikipedia entry on the subject.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_World_Cup_1966\n\n"After 12 minutes Helmut Haller had put West Germany ahead, but the score was levelled by Geoff Hurst four minutes later.\n...\nWith the score level at 2-2 at the end of 90 minutes, the game went to extra time. In the 98th minute Hurst found himself on the score sheet again; his shot hit the crossbar, bounced down onto the goal line, and then back into play and was controversially deemed to have crossed the line by the linesman and referee. In the last minute, it was Hurst again to easily sprint through the (then almost empty) German half and net his third, just as the gathered crowd invaded the pitch to celebrate with the team, thus cementing the victory for England. This made Geoff Hurst the only player ever to have scored three times in a World Cup Final."
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Gerd Muller of West Germany with 10 goals even though his team didnt reach the finals..
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Rumambubchoo is right, the first to score in the 1966 cup was Pele, min 15', against Bulgaria. \n\nIn the debut game of the competition a day before Brazil-Bulgaria there was no goal, England vs Hungary 0-0.
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>>> Top scorer in ALL WC ever:\n\nMost goals scored: Gerd Müller (West Germany 1970-1974), 14 \n\nMüller scored 68 goals in 62 games for Germany. His career in the national team started in 1966 and ended on July 7, 1974 with the win of the World Cup at his home stadium in Munich. He scored the winning goal for the 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in the final. His 4 goals in that tournament and his 10 goals at the 1970 World Cup combined make him the most successful World Cup striker to date. Müller also participated in the 1972 European Championship, becoming top scorer with 4 goals and winning the Championship with the German team.\n\n\n>>> Top scorer in ONE WC:\n\nJust Fontaine (born August 18, 1933 in Marrakech, Morocco) was a French football player. He holds the all-time record for goals scored in a single World Cup finals, with 13 in 1958.\n\nWearing the blue shirt of France, Fontaine's statistics are even more impressive. On his debut with the team on December 17, 1953, Fontaine scored a hat trick as France drubbed Luxembourg 8-0. In seven years, he scored 30 goals in 21 matches for the national team. However, Fontaine will best be remembered for his 1958 World Cup performance, where he scored 13 goals in just 6 matches, including putting 4 past the West Germans. This tally secured him the Golden Boot for that tournament, and his total of 13 remains the greatest number of goals scored in a single World Cup tournament.
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Gerd Muller (Germany) 14 total goals\n10 goals in 1970 World Cup 4 goals in 1974 World Cup
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The 1000th world cup goal was scored by Rob Rensenbrink of the Netherlands in 1978 (vs Scotland)\n\nThe1st goal was scored by Lucien Laurent (France) in 1930\nThe 500th goal was scored by Bobby Collins (Scotland) in 1958\nThe 1500th goal was scored by Claudio Caniggia (Argentina) in 1994.
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I'm not sure if an offical record of this is kept but Johnny Rep scored from around 40 yards for Holland against Scotland in the 1978 World Cup. Can't remember seeing a goal from further out.
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Pelé is the leading scorer for the national team, with 95 goals in 114 games.  He is also, as expected, the leading scorer of all time in Brazil with 1284 goals during his career.
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Roger Milla of Cameroon.\n 42 years and 39 days when Cameroon played Russia at the 1994 World Cup.\n\nHe is also the oldest goal scorer in world cup history as he scored in the same match!
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A total of 132 goals were scored in the 1986 World Cup in the 52 matches played.
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If you are referring to the 'golden goal', it was Laurent Blanc for France at the 1998 WC.\n\nVs Paraguay I believe.
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World Cup Finals Top Scorers\nYear  Top Scorer(s)  Country  Matches Played / Goals Scored \n\n1930  Guillermo Stabile  Argentina  4  /8  \n1934  Angelo Schiavio  Italy *  4 / 4  \n Oldrich Nejedly  Czechoslovakia  4 / 4  \n Edmund Conen  Germany  4  /4  \n1938  Leonidas da Silva  Brazil  4 / 8  \n1950  Marques Ademir  Brazil *  6  /7  \n1954  Sandor Kocsis  Hungary  5  /11  \n1958  Just Fontaine  France  6 / 13  \n1962  Drazen Jerkovic  Yugoslavia  6  /5  \n1966  Ferreira Eusebio  Portugal  6/  9  \n1970  Gerd Muller  West Germany  6  /10  \n1974  Grzegorz Lato  Poland  7  /9  \n1978  Mario Kempes  Argentina *  7 / 6  \n1982  Paolo Rossi  Italy *  7  /6  \n1986  Gary Lineker  England  5  /6  \n1990  Salvatore Schillaci  Italy  7  /6  \n1994  Oleg Salenko  Russia  3  /6  \n Hristo Stoitchkov  Bulgaria  7  /6  \n1998  Davor Suker  Croatia  7  /6  \n2002  Ronaldo  Brazil*  7  /8
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In this current World Cup it's Miroslav Klose of Germany.  The record for most goal's in a single World Cup is held by Just Fontaine of France in the 1958 World Cup with 13 goals.  And the record for most goal's in total (in more than 1 World Cup) is Ronaldo of Brazil and Gert Muller of Germany who both scored 14.