Going into the finals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe are favourites to win the Golden Boot award, given to the top goal-scorer of the tournament. Both men have 5 goals each in the tournament so far.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
This will be Messi's final shot at winning the World Cup, a trophy that has eluded his glittering cabinet in his illustrious career.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Below is the list of FIFA World Cup Golden Boot winners (inputs from Xinhua):<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1930 - Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) - 8 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1934 - Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) - 5 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1938 - Leonidas (Brazil) - 7 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1950 - Ademir (Brazil) - 9 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1954 - Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) - 11 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1958 - Just Fontaine (France) - 13 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1962 - Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile) - 4 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1966 - Eusebio (Portugal) 9 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1970 - Gerd Muller (West Germany) - 10 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1974 - Grzegorz Lato (Poland) - 7 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1978 - Mario Kempes (Argentina) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1982 - Paolo Rossi (Italy) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1986 - Gary Lineker (England) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1990 - Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1994 - Oleg Salenko (Russia), Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
1998 - Davor Suker (Croatia) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
2002 - Ronaldo (Brazil) - 8 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
2006 - Miroslav Klose (Germany) - 5 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
2010 - Thomas Muller (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), David Villa (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay) - 5 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
2014 - James Rodriguez (Colombia) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
2018 - Harry Kane (England) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n
2014 - James Rodriguez (Colombia) - 6 goals<\/p>\r\n\r\n