| The top goal scorer at any individual World Cup is Just | | | | Germany hosted the tournament and won the trophy |
| Fontaine from France, who in 1958 at the World Cup in | | | | for the second time. Football had changed in the four |
| Sweden scored 13 goals in six games. It is easy to | | | | years and goals were notably tighter to come by at |
| work out the mathematics that this is an average of | | | | the 1974 World Cup. Muller had to settle for four |
| more than two goals per game and Fontaine scored 3 | | | | strikes this time around but given that the fourth strike |
| in his first match against Paraguay and then four in his | | | | was the one which gave West Germany a 2-1 victory |
| last match, the third and fourth play off against | | | | over Netherlands, Muller would not have been upset |
| Germany. Scoring in every match that France played | | | | about not being top goal scorer. |
| at the tournament, Fontaine and his French team | | | | The only soccer player who has scored more goals at |
| mates were unfortunate to come up against Brazil in | | | | World Cups that Gerd Muller is Ronaldo from Brazil, |
| the semi finals that were coming to the peak of their | | | | who was top scorer when Brazil triumphed in 2002. |
| powers. Fontaine scored in the 9th minute to level the | | | | Ronaldo has scored fifteen goals in a total of four |
| game at 1-1 but Brazil triumphed 5-2 with an emerging | | | | World Cups but his tally of 8 in Japan and South |
| starlet scoring a hat-trick in 23 second half minutes. | | | | Korea, with a goal in every game apart from the |
| Fontaine was outshone by a player who would go | | | | quarter final has been most impressive. There were |
| onto eclipse virtually every other football who ever | | | | major doubts about Ronaldo's fitness and health |
| lived, Pele. The 1958 World Cup is probably most | | | | amidst the controversy over his appearance at the |
| remembered for the debut of Pele on the world | | | | France 1998 World Cup final but the two goals that |
| soccer scene but the 13 goals sees Fontaine standing | | | | defeated Germany 2-0 gave Ronaldo his place at the |
| third in the list of all time World Cup goal scorers, no | | | | forefront of world soccer once again. |
| mean feat for just one tournament. | | | | The road to the 2010 World Cup is well underway and |
| Second top goal scorer was the West German goal | | | | you can guarantee that many players around the |
| grabber supreme Gerd Muller, who bagged 14 goals in | | | | world will be carrying dreams of finishing the top goal |
| two tournaments. Muller, otherwise known as 'Der | | | | scorer at South Africa. Winning the Golden Boot for |
| Bomber' was the top scorer in Mexico 1970 when 10 | | | | World Cup goals is a tremendous achievement but |
| goals, including two hat tricks saw Germany take third | | | | most players would swap it all for their nation to life |
| place after an agonising extra time Semi-final defeat | | | | the World Cup. |
| to Italy. Muller bounced back in 1974 when West | | | | |