Which player has scored more goals in the World Cup than any other?

Answer 1

Most goals scored, overall
15, Ronaldo ( Brazil, 1998-2006).

Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima (born September 22, 1976), simply known as Ronaldo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Many also say he would've been the greatest player of all time if not for his knee injuries. He plays as a striker for Brazil and the Spanish club Real Madrid. He has been nicknamed "The Phenomenon" (Portuguese: O Fenômeno, Spanish: El Fenómeno). He was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004.

Ronaldo has enjoyed success at the international level, winning the 1994 and 2002 FIFA World Cups with Brazil. Ronaldo has won three FIFA World Player of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2002). Ronaldo and former Real Madrid teammate Zinedine Zidane are the only two men to have won the award three times.

Ronaldo was born in Bento Ribeiro, a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Like many of his contemporaries, he began to play football in the streets of his neighbourhood.

In April 1999, Ronaldo married Milene Domingues. The marriage lasted four years and ended in divorce. The couple had a son, Ronald (born 2000). In 2005, he got engaged to Brazilian model and MTV VJ Daniella Cicarelli, who became pregnant but suffered a miscarriage; their relationship lasted 3 months after their engagement. He is currently dating Brazilian supermodel Raica Oliveira. Writer Andrew Downie asserted a correlation between Ronaldo's personal life and performance on the pitch, noting that his most prolific periods of goalscoring have coincided with the times when he was happily married.

In 2005, Ronaldo became co-owner of A1 Team Brazil, alongside Brazilian motorsports legend Emerson Fittipaldi. The team participates in the newly launched A1 Grand Prix series, with Nelson Piquet, Jr., Tony Kanaan and João Paulo Oliveira as drivers.

Ronaldo made his international debut for Brazil in 1994, in a friendly match in Recife against Argentina. He went to the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA as a 17-year-old but did not play. He was known then as Ronaldinho, since Ronaldo Guiaro, his older team-mate on the 1996 Olympic Games, was called Ronaldo. Another Brazilian player, Ronaldo de Assis, who is widely known as Ronaldinho, was then called Ronaldinho Gaúcho until the Ronaldinho-to-Ronaldo change occurred for Ronaldo de Lima as he became more prominent.

Voted the FIFA World Player of the Year in 1996 and 1997, he scored four goals and made three assists[5] during the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The night before the final, he suffered a convulsive fit. He was initially removed from the starting lineup 72 minutes before the match but he requested to play and was later reinstated by coach Mario Zagallo. Ronaldo did not perform well and he was injured in a collision with French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez. Brazil lost the final to hosts France 3-0.[6] Adrian Williams, professor of clinical neurology at Birmingham University, said that Ronaldo should not have played, saying that he would have been feeling the after effects of the seizure and that " there is no way that he would have been able to perform to the best of his ability within 24 hours of his first fit -- if it was his first fit."[7]

Ronaldo won the Golden Shoe as the top scorer in the 2002 FIFA World Cup with eight goals, two in the final against Germany. He also equaled Pelé's Brazilian record of 12 World Cup goals, adding to the four he scored in the 1998 tournament.

On June 2, 2004, Ronaldo scored an unusual hat-trick for Brazil against arch-rivals Argentina in a CONMEBOL qualifier for the 2006 World Cup, scoring all three of Brazil's goals from the penalty spot.

FIFA World Cup
All-Time World Cup Goalscorer - 15 Goals in 19 games in 3 World Cups
2006 Bronze Boot - Third highest scorer (tied) - 3 goals
2002 Golden Boot - Top scorer - 8 goals
2002 Silver Ball - Second best player
2002 Winner
1998 Golden Ball - Best player
1998 Silver Boot - Second highest scorer - 4 goals
1998 Runner-up
1994 Winner

Answer 2

Ronaldo Luis Nazario De Lima of Brazil.
He has 15 goals. He scored his 15th against Ghana in the 2006 Fifa World Cup.

Answer 3

Ronaldo Luis Nazario De Lima of BRAZIL has scored 15 goals in the FIFA World Cup finals, more than any other players in the history of the tournament.

Answer 4

Before World Cup 2006, it was Muller (former Germany striker lead the board with 14 goals) After the Germany2006 World Cup, Ronaldo(Brazil & Real Madrid striker) lead the board with 15goals.

Answer 5

Ronaldo, i think he has 15 goals in three world cups or something like that.

Answer 6

it is ronaldo of brazil...15 goals in 19 games in 3 world cup...

Answer 7

RONALDO!
He scored his 15th World Cup goal this year and broke Gerd Muller's record...

Answer 8

I think its either Terrell Owens, John Cena, Tony Romo, Peyton Manning, Mike Vanderjagt, Adam Vinatieri, Lance Armstrong, or Ronaldo.

Answer 9

well they only play with mexicans, that's the whole point to provide mexico with talent. If they can't do that then they might as well play with argentino's or uruguayans jk lol. and their one of the oldest clubs form in 1906 i believe.

Answer 10

I'd say it's Miroslav Klose from the German National Team.