Wednesday 4 June 2014

FIFA World Cup 2014 - Awards - Golden Boot

The prestigious Golden Boot award
The Golden Boot is presented to the leading goal scorer of the World Cup. In FIFA World Cup 2014, if more than a single player scores the most number of goals, then the winner will be decided by the least number of assistance required for the goals. If assists is not capable of deciding the winner, then the player who played for the least time for scoring the goals will be the winner.

Lets take a look at the previous winners:

Golden Boot Award
Year
Player
Country
Goals
1930
Guillermo Stabile
Argentina
8
1934
Oldrich Nejedly, Edmund Conen, Angelo Schiavio
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy
4 goals each
1938
Leonidas
Brazil
8
1950
Ademir
Brazil
9
1954
Sandor Kocsis
Hungary
11
1958
Just Fontaine
France
13
1962
Florian Albert, Valentin Ivanov, Drazen Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez, Vava, Garrincha
Hungary, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Chile, Brazil, Brazil
4 goals each
1966
Eusebio
Portugal
9
1970
Gerd Muller
Germany
10
1974
Gregorz Lato
Poland
7
1978
Mario Kempes
Argentina
6
1982
Paolo Rossi
Italy
6
1986
Gary Lineker
England
6
1990
Salvatore Schillachi
Italy
6
1994
Histro Stoichkov, Oleg Salenko
Bulgaria, Russia
6
1998
Davor Suker
Croatia
6
2002
Ronaldo
Brazil
8
2006
Miroslav Klose
Germany
5
2010
Thomas Muller
Germany
5

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