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The Golden Boot is the award given to the top goalscorer in a football tournament, most commonly used in conjunction with the FIFA World Cup.
| Year | Player(s) | Country | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Guillermo Stabile | Argentina | 8 |
| 1934 | Angelo Schiavio | Italy | 4 | Oldrich Nejedly | Czechoslovakia | Edmund Conen | Germany | 1938 | Leonidas da Silva | Brazil | 8 | 1950 | Marques Ademir | Brazil | 7 | 1954 | Sandor Kocsis | Hungary | 11 | 1958The 1958 Football World Cup remained in Europe, this time being hosted by Sweden. It was won by Brazil, who beat Sweden 5-2 in the final for their first title. The World Cup marked the debut on the world stage of 17-year-old Pele, who would grow to be con | Just FontaineJust Fontaine (born August 18, 1933 in Marrakech, Morocco) was a French football player. He holds the all-time record for goals scored in a single World Cup finals, with 13 in 1958. Fontaine began his professional career at US Casablanca, where he played | FranceThe France national football team is a successful European football team, generally considered to be one of the stronger sides in international football today. France came third in the World Cups of 1958, a reasonably isolated success. The generation of P | 13 | 1962In 1962 the Football World Cup returned to the continent of South America. It was held in Chile and won by Brazil, who repeated as champions after beating Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the final. Only three nations competed for the honour to stage the games, one | Drazen Jerkovic | YugoslaviaThe Yugoslavia national football team existed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. For the team under the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia see Serbia and Montenegro national football team. The first one was in th | 5 | 19661966 was the year that the Football World Cup went back to the country that first conceived football: England. And it was England who won the tournament in a controversial final over West Germany, 4-2. Eusebio of Portugal lead the tournament in scoring wi | Eusebio | PortugalAlthough the Portuguese national football team has never won any major competition at senior level, nor had they reached a final before Euro 2004, they usually play very attractive football and can produce some great performances, playing head-to-head wit | 9 | 1970 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 10 | 1974 | Grzegorz Lato | Poland | 7 | 1978 | Mario Kempes | Argentina | 6 | 1982 | Paolo Rossi | Italy | 6 | 1986 | Gary Lineker | England | 6 | 1990 | Salvatore Schillaci | Italy | 6 | 1994 | Oleg Salenko | Russia | 6 | Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | 1998 | Davor Suker | Croatia | 6 | 2002 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 8 |