{"id":11499,"date":"2026-06-28T08:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/harry-kane-becomes-englands-all-time-leading-world-cup-scorer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:57:35","slug":"harry-kane-becomes-englands-all-time-leading-world-cup-scorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/harry-kane-becomes-englands-all-time-leading-world-cup-scorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane Becomes England&#8217;s All-Time Leading World Cup Scorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/tag\/harry-kane\/\" data-ailt=\"1\">Harry Kane<\/a> made history by becoming England&#039;s all-time leading World Cup scorer during a 2-0 victory against Panama, surpassing the previous record held by Gary Lineker. Kane scored his 11th World Cup goal by heading in a cross from Jude Bellingham in the second half of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing his pride in achieving this milestone, Kane stated, &quot;It is a proud one for sure. I spoke before the tournament about the <a href=\"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/tag\/world-cup\/\" data-ailt=\"1\">World Cup<\/a> being the biggest competition we play as professional footballers, so to get to 11 goals is a proud feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I never take these moments for granted.&quot; He emphasized the importance of enjoying the moment with his teammates while leading the group.<\/p>\n<p>Lineker, who scored a total of 10 goals across two World Cups in 1986 and 1990, has previously praised Kane, calling him &quot;the greatest English striker we\u2019ve ever had.&quot; Kane&#039;s journey to this record includes scoring two goals in England&#039;s opening match against Croatia, making him only the second England men&#039;s player to score<\/p>\n<p>in three different World Cups, following in the footsteps of David Beckham.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, Kane has netted three goals in the current tournament, positioning himself to challenge the records of other football legends. Argentina&#039;s Lionel Messi currently leads with 18 World Cup goals, having recently broken the previous record of 16 held by Germany&#039;s Miroslav Klose.<\/p>\n<p>Kane&#039;s tally of 11 goals places him ahead of Portugal&#039;s Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 10, but still behind Brazilian Ronaldo, who scored 15.<\/p>\n<p>Kane is also eyeing the legendary Pele&#039;s record of 12 World Cup goals. Pele, who remains the only player to have won the World Cup three times, scored his 12 goals in just 16 World Cup matches, the same number Kane has played so far.<\/p>\n<p>Kane&#039;s goals-per-minute ratio stands at 113, slightly behind Pele&#039;s average of a goal every 105 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Kane surpassed Gary Lineker&#8217;s record, becoming England&#8217;s top World Cup scorer with 11 goals after a win against Panama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[455,354,929,583,936,431],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-england","tag-football","tag-harry-kane","tag-panama","tag-records","tag-world-cup"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11502,"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions\/11502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heibola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}