who scored the most goals during world cup play in history?
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Gerd Muller scored a total of 14 goals in 2 World Cups - 10 in 1970 and 4 in 1974.\n\nJust Fontaine of France scored a record 13 goals in a single world cup in 1958.
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The oldest player to win the World Cup championship was Dino Zoff (Italy). He did it in 1982 at the age of 40. \n\nThe oldest player to play in the World Cup was Roger Milla of Cameroon. During the game against Russia in 1994 he was 42 years and 39 days old. He hit a goal in that match too.
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1000goals scored by Italy in its football history. This historic goal was scored by Christian Vieri in his debut with the National Team in the 51st minute of Italy's 3-0 win over Moldova. The team which has allowed the most goals scored is Switzerland (101 goals in 52 matches). Vieri's goal is also the 125th scored by Italy in 54 World Cup preliminaries.
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this is pretty nifty:\n\nhttp://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/stats/top10.html\n\ntallest are Zeljko Kalac (who..?) from Australia, Jan Koller from Czech Repub, and Nikola Zigic from Serbia & Montenegro.
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Gerd Muller (Germany)\n14 total goals\n10 goals in 1970 World Cup\n4 goals in 1974 World Cup
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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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Davor Suker, Croatia with 6 goals.\n\n100% sure!\n\nOfficial FIFA World Cup Awards\nWinner France \nSecond Brazil \nThird Croatia \nFourth Netherlands \nadidas Golden Shoe winner Davor SUKER (CRO) 6 \nadidas Golden Ball winner RONALDO (BRA) \nFIFA Fair play award England / France \nFIFA Award for the Most Entertaining Team France \nYashin Award for the Best Goalkeeper Fabien BARTHEZ (FRA)
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The 2002 final was the first time Brazil and Germany had ever faced one another at a World Cup. Ronaldo, who suffered a famously poor final four years earlier, was the hero for the Seleção, scoring both goals of the game. He ended up with a total of eight goals in the tournament – the most in a FIFA World Cup since Gerd Müller scored ten times in Mexico ‘70 - and won the Golden Boot.
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Hakan Sukur scored the fastest goal in World Cup history in just 11 seconds and combined with Ilhan Mansiz on two others last night as Turkey beat co-host South Korea 3-2 to clinch third place. \n\n(~~)
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The oldest player to play in the World Cup was Roger Milla of Cameroon. During the game against Russia in 1994 he was 42 years and 39 days old. He hit a goal in that match too.
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Ronaldo \nSee in\nhttp://2002.fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/02/en/020630/2/1b3a.html
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First goal in World Cup:\nBy Lucien Laurent of France against Mexico in the 19th minute in the first World Cup match on 13/07/1930.\n\nFor more facts about World Cup visit:\nhttp://home.netvigator.com/~andrewshe/wcrec_goals.html
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the most goals score by a player in any world cup is by JUST FONTAINE of france wen he scored 13 goals in the 1962/1958 (i dont remember clearly) world cup. and the max goals ever scored by a player is again just fontaine with 14 goals. ronaldo has 14 too and is joint highest.
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Answer: Pele with 3 World Cups.\n\nWorld Cups Played: 1962 - 1966 - 1970 - 1958 \nPlaces Achieved:  1º (1962, 1970, 1958)
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(m)\n\nGerard Muller is the top scorer in World Cup history with 14 goals. Salenko of Russia scored 5 goals in a match during the 1994 World Cup. Guillermo Stabile of Argentina was the first player to ever record a hat trick (1930 World Cup). Hakan Sukur of Turkey scored the fastest goal in World Cup history in 2002 when he scored 11 seconds into the match against South Korea. Lothar Matthaus of Germany / West Germany has the most appearances by a player in the World Cup with 25. Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland was the youngest player (17 years old) to ever step on the field in World Cup (1982). Pelé of Brazil was also the youngest player to score in a World Cup (1958) match. Pelé also was the youngest player to ever win a World Cup (1958). Roger Milla of Cameroon was the oldest (42 years, 39 days) player to play in a World Cup (1994). Milla also scored a goal in that match against Russia. The first player to ever be ejected from a World Cup match was Galindo of Peru in 1930.
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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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SWEDEN!\nin the 1958's FIFA World Cup in Sweden.\n\nIt was won by Brazil, who beat Sweden 5-2 in the final for their first title. The World Cup marked the debut on the world stage of 17-year-old Pelé, who would grow to be considered one of the greatest footballers of all time.