Former Germany star Miroslav Klose predicts his World Cup scoring document will fall in 2026 and hopes Lionel Messi will break it.
Klose was the World Cup’s prime scorer with 16 objectives in 24 video games, all of which got here from contained in the field, together with seven headers.
Though he didn’t rating within the two finals he performed in (2002 and 2014), 5 of these objectives got here within the knockout phases. His final purpose on this competitors got here in Germany’s 7-1 victory over Brazil within the 2014 semi-finals.
His closest challenger is Messi, who has scored 13 objectives in 26 appearances in all competitions, and will probably be aiming to match that document as he heads to his sixth World Cup look.
The Argentina captain led his workforce to the trophy on the 2022 World Cup, the place he tied for probably the most purpose involvements (10-7 objectives, 3 assists).
However he’s not the one participant who want to see his title subsequent to this document: Kylian Mbappé, who has scored extra objectives (12) and had extra purpose involvements (14) than another participant within the final two World Cups, together with a hat-trick within the 2022 closing.
Klose took the document from Ronaldo Nazario in 2014, however doesn’t count on him to nonetheless lead this metric after the match ends in 2026.
“I count on my document to be damaged this World Cup,” he instructed Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
“That is an enlargement, there are extra matches and due to this fact extra possibilities to attain.
“Messi and Mbappe will go far and that is completely fantastic. Data will all the time be damaged in the future.
“If it occurs, I might be pleased if it was Messi. I’ve all the time been a giant fan of his. He is a genius.”
Argentina begin their World Cup marketing campaign on June sixteenth in opposition to Algeria in Group J, whereas France face Senegal.
