WORLD CUP RECORDS (Part 14) - PLAYER WITH MOST HEADED GOALS


Picture : Miroslav Klose, the recordman of headed goals !


Player with most headed goals: Miroslav Klose

*Miroslav Klose has scored 7 headed goals at World Cups: more than any other players in the history of competition.

*All 5 his first World Cup goals (from total 16), i.e. all 5 his goals at 2002 World Cup, were aerial.
This made Klose the record holder on most headed goals at a single edition (5).

*After 2002 edition were he scored by head vs Saudi Arabia (3 times), Ireland and Cameroon, Klose netted such way also vs Argentina in 2006 and vs Australia in 2010. 

*Another one who made a hat-trick of aerial goals was Tomáš Skuhravý (vs Costa Rica in 1990).


     
 PLAYERS WITH MOSTHEADED GOALS AT WORLD CUPS
     
 PlayerCountryGoalsBreakdown
     
1Miroslav KloseGermany72002 (5), 2006 (1), 2010 (1)
2Gerd MüllerGermany51970 (4), 1974 (1)
3Oldřich Nejedlý Czechoslovakia41934 (3), 1938 (1)
 Sándor KocsisHungary41954 (4)
 Andrzej SzarmachPoland41974 (3), 1978 (1)
 Tomáš Skuhravý Czechoslovakia41990 (4)
 Jürgen KlinsmannGermany41990 (2), 1994 (1), 1998 (1)