18 December,2022 01:15 PM IST | Doha | IANS
Lionel Messi takes part in a training session at Qatar University training site 3 in Doha.Pic/AFP
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.
This will be Messi's final shot at winning the World Cup, a trophy that has eluded his glittering cabinet in his illustrious career.
Below is the list of FIFA World Cup Golden Boot winners (inputs from Xinhua):
1930 - Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) - 8 goals
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1934 - Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) - 5 goals
1938 - Leonidas (Brazil) - 7 goals
1950 - Ademir (Brazil) - 9 goals
1954 - Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) - 11 goals
1958 - Just Fontaine (France) - 13 goals
1962 - Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile) - 4 goals
1966 - Eusebio (Portugal) 9 goals
1970 - Gerd Muller (West Germany) - 10 goals
1974 - Grzegorz Lato (Poland) - 7 goals
1978 - Mario Kempes (Argentina) - 6 goals
1982 - Paolo Rossi (Italy) - 6 goals
1986 - Gary Lineker (England) - 6 goals
1990 - Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) - 6 goals
1994 - Oleg Salenko (Russia), Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) - 6 goals
1998 - Davor Suker (Croatia) - 6 goals
2002 - Ronaldo (Brazil) - 8 goals
2006 - Miroslav Klose (Germany) - 5 goals
2010 - Thomas Muller (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), David Villa (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay) - 5 goals
2014 - James Rodriguez (Colombia) - 6 goals
2018 - Harry Kane (England) - 6 goals
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