England national team and Spanish football club Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham scored in the third-place match of the 2026 World Cup against France.
elchi reports citing Idman.Biz that the goal scored by Bellingham brought the total number of goals scored by Real Madrid players for their national teams in World Cups to 100. The Madrid representative has gone down in history as the first club to achieve this milestone.
The 23-year-old footballer scored England’s final goal in the eighth minute of stoppage time. This was Bellingham’s seventh goal of the 2026 World Cup. With this, he became the England national team’s top scorer in a single World Cup.
Another Real Madrid player, Kylian Mbappé, also scored a brace in the match. The captain of the French national team brought his total goal count in World Cups to 22, becoming the tournament’s all-time top scorer.
With a 6-4 victory, England won the World Cup bronze medal for the first time in its history. This is the team’s second medal in World Cups. England became world champion in 1966.