There has been a drought of goals at the world cup since roughly 1974 world cup onwards. Now only a total of six goals are scored by the winner of the golden boot. But at the 1954 world cup was the Hungarian footballer Sandor Kocsis with a total of eleven goals to win the golden boot. And in the 1958 world cup the French footballer Just Fontaine scored a total of thirteen goals a record which still stands.
But why is this so? Now that F.I.F.As new rule the goalposts are now made wider, just to encourage players to score more goals after the 1990 world cup.
There are a few reasons for this result to be there every time. One reason is that teams are happy to get a one goal lead and then just defend even though this is dangerous , as one goal is never ever safe. We see this result even in the Euro cup games.
The other reason is also quite possible , for the drought in goals . That each world cup Adidas the maker of the football are making the ball lighter , which has caused a great deal of problems to the free kick specialists as the ball sails over the bar to easily. The great Brazilian defender and their free kick taker grumbled after the 1998 world cup, over the ball being to light. Earlier he was a tearer to the goalkeepers with his famous banana free kicks. These are his sad words ( All my hard practice has gone in vain , as the ball goes some where else then where I want it to go , all because the ball is to light. ) We have even seen penalty shots , where the ball sails over the bar. .The best reminder is the penalty kick Robetto Baggio missed in the 1994 ,final verses Brazil.
In the 1958 world cup match between Austria and Switzerland saw a total of 12, twelve goals being scored , 7 by Austria and 5 by Switzerland . That is history , we will never ever see so many goals scored in a single match ever, no matter how broad the goalposts are.
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