{"id":6244,"date":"2026-06-29T12:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:32:25","slug":"world-cup-2026-harry-kane-makes-history-to-become-englands-leading-scorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=6244","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Harry Kane makes history to become England&#8217;s leading scorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Harry Kane broke Gary Lineker&#8217;s record to become England&#8217;s all-time leading World Cup scorer when he struck during Saturday&#8217;s 2-0 win against Panama.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Three Lions captain doubled his side&#8217;s lead when headed home superbly from Jude Bellingham&#8217;s cross in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The goal took Kane&#8217;s overall World Cup tally to 11 goals, surpassing Lineker&#8217;s total of 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a proud one for sure,&#8221; Kane told BBC Sport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I spoke before the tournament about the World Cup being the biggest competition we play as professional footballers, so to get to 11 goals is a proud feeling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is always hard to take in. I just want to enjoy this moment with the team, enjoy being top of the table. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I never take these moments for granted. Another good milestone to hit, and I hope it is not the last one in this tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lineker, who scored six times at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and four times in Italy four years later, said recently that Kane was &#8220;the greatest English striker we&#8217;ve ever had&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kane got two goals in England&#8217;s opening 4-2 win against Croatia, which made him only the second England men&#8217;s player to score at three different World Cups (Russia 2018, Qatar 2022 and North America 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He joins former Manchester United midfielder David Beckham, who scored at the 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kane won the Golden Boot in Russia eight years ago with six goals, before adding two further strikes in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has three in total so far at this World Cup after helping England into the last 32.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Kane broke Gary Lineker&#8217;s record to become England&#8217;s all-time leading World Cup scorer when he struck during Saturday&#8217;s 2-0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}