Villa, Spain's top scorer in World Cup history

No need to be a football virtuoso for highlight the figure of David Villa in South Africa. Without the Asturian, it is very difficult to think that the national team could have gotten where it did. He, along with Iniesta, pulled the car in the most difficult moments of La Roja, mainly after falling to Switzerland (0-1), when Spain played everything for everything in the matches against Honduras and Chile.

Villa had already proved his worth in the big tournaments in the previous one Germany World Cup and in the Euro 2008, where he was also crowned as the championship scorer with four goals, but in South Africa, the Guaje exceeded expectations, he surpassed himself and, in turn, all the Spanish players who went through a World Cup. And is that with his goal against Chile (What a great goal!), Became the top Spanish scorer in World Cup history, with six goals.

With the three targets which marked in Germany in 2006 (two to Ukraine and one to France) and the three that added in South Africa in the first phase of the tournament (two against Honduras and one against Chile) he beat madridistas Butragueño, Raúl, Hierro and Morientes, who in their participation in the World Cups scored five points each. Villa ended up leaving the record in nine: scored two more in South Africa, both decisive, against Portugal and Paraguay, and also also scored one in Brazil 2014, in the third match of the group stage, with nothing at stake, against Australia.