FIFA World Cup - Golden Boot

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The Golden Boot or Golden Shoe Award goes to the top goalscorer of the FIFA World Cup. It was introduced at the 1930 FIFA World Cup held at Uruguay.
1. 1930 :- Guillermo Stabile (8 Goals) - Argentina
2. 1934 :- Oldrich Nejedly (5 Goals) - Czechoslovakia

3. 1938 :- Leondidas (7 Goals) - Brazil
4. 1950 :- Ademir (8 Goals)- Brazil
5. 1954 :- Sandore Kocsis (11 Goals) - Hungary
6. 1958 :- Just Fontaine (13 Goals) - France
7. 1962 :- Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha(Brazil), Vava (Brazil) , Drazan Jerkovic Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile) (4 Goals)
8. 1966 :- Eusebio (9 Goals) - Portugal
9. 1970 :- Gerd Muller (10 Goals) - West Germany
10. 1974 :- Grzegorz Lato (7 Goals) - Poland
11. 1978 :- Mario Kepes (6 Goals) - Argentina
12. 1982 :- Paolp Rossi (6 Goals) - Italy
13. 1986 :- Gary Lineker (6 Goals) - England
14. 1990 :- Salvatore Schillaci (6 Goals) - Italy
15. 1994 :- Oleg Salenko (Russia) , Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) (6 Goals)
16. 1998 :- Davor Suker (6 Goals) - Croatia
17. 2002 :- Ronaldo (8 Goals)- Brazil
18. 2006 :- Miroslav Klise (5 Goals) - Germany
19. 2010 :- Thomas Muller (5 Goals) - Germany

James Rodriguez

20. 2014 :- James Rodriguez (6 Goals) - Colombia       

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