Former Germany star Miroslav Klose expects his World Cup goalscoring file to fall in 2026 and hopes Lionel Messi would be the one to interrupt it.
Klose is the highest scorer on the World Cup, with 16 objectives in 24 matches – all 16 objectives had been scored from contained in the field, together with seven headers.
Regardless of not scoring within the two finals he performed (2002, 2014), 5 of his objectives got here within the knockout phases. His final purpose within the event got here in Germany’s 7-1 win in opposition to Brazil within the 2014 semi-finals.
His closest challenger is Messi, who has netted 13 objectives in his file 26 appearances on the event, and he could have that file in his sights as he prepares to play in a sixth World Cup.
The Argentina captain recorded the joint-most purpose involvements on the 2022 World Cup (10 – seven objectives, three assists) as he led the staff to the trophy.
However he isn’t the one participant who will need to have his title beside this explicit file, with Kylian Mbappe, who has scored extra objectives (12) and recorded extra purpose involvements (14) than another participant throughout the earlier two World Cups, together with a hat-trick within the 2022 last.
Klose took the file off Ronaldo Nazario in 2014, however he doesn’t anticipate to nonetheless be the chief on this metric come the top of the 2026 event.
“I anticipate my file to be damaged at this World Cup,” he informed Suddeutsche Zeitung.
“That is an expanded version; there are extra matches and subsequently extra alternatives to attain.
“Each Messi and Mbappe will go far, and that’s completely fantastic; the file was at all times going to be damaged finally.
“If it occurs, I’d be happy if it had been Messi. I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of his; he’s a genius.”
Argentina get their World Cup marketing campaign underway on June 16 in opposition to Algeria in Group J, with France kicking off in opposition to Senegal.
