{"id":70563,"date":"2026-07-01T06:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=70563"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:04:44","slug":"mbappe-becomes-second-highest-goalscorer-in-fifa-world-cup-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=70563","title":{"rendered":"Mbapp\u00e9 Becomes Second-Highest Goalscorer in FIFA World Cup History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France star Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 has etched his name deeper into football history by scoring twice against Sweden, becoming the second-highest goalscorer in FIFA World Cup history with 18 goals.<\/p>\n<p>The two-goal performance saw Mbapp\u00e9 surpass Germany&#8217;s Miroslav Klose, who scored 16 World Cup goals during his career. Mbapp\u00e9 now trails only Argentina captain Lionel Messi, who leads the all-time list with 19 World Cup goals.<\/p>\n<p>Mbapp\u00e9 has also been in sensational form throughout the ongoing tournament, taking his tally to six goals, drawing level with Messi in the race for the Golden Boot.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the French forward has set another remarkable milestone by becoming the highest goalscorer in FIFA World Cup knockout-stage history. His brace against Sweden increased his knockout-stage tally to 10 goals, further cementing his status as one of the greatest players in World Cup history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France star Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 has etched his name deeper into football history by scoring twice against Sweden, becoming the second-highest goalscorer in FIFA World Cup history with 18 goals. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=70563\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70565,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563\/revisions\/70565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}