Last 5 World Cup Golden Boot Winners

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The Last 5 World Cup Golden Boot Winners

Golden Boot Winners.
Golden Boot Winners

Goals win games and those that boast an unerring knack for being able to find the back of the net will always be worth their weight in gold for club and country. The very best in the business at doing just that get the opportunity to strut their stuff on the grandest of stages.

Showpiece occasions do not come any bigger than the World Cup finals, and FIFA's flagship event is littered with tales of superstar strikers illuminating the greatest spectacle in sport with their eye-catching exploits in the final third of the field.

Firepower

More of the same is expected in Qatar, with World Cup 2022 winner odds siding with the likes of 7/2 favourites Brazil, 7/1 defending champions France and 9/1 shots England - with all of those teams boasting considerable firepower.

Who, though, will lead the charge for their respective nation and add their name to a list of Golden Boot winners that already includes some of the very best to have ever taken aim at a target?

Harry Kane

England had a success-starved fan base daring to dream that football really could come home in 2018, with Gareth Southgate overseeing a memorable run to the semi-finals. Tottenham frontman Kane provided attacking inspiration – bagging a brace against Tunisia in the group stage, a hat-trick versus Panama, and another effort in a last-16 showdown with Colombia to finish on six goals.

James Rodriguez

Colombia captured the imagination at the 2014 finals in Brazil, making their way to the quarter-finals, and James was the man to really see his stock soar for the South American nation. A transfer to Real Madrid was secured on the back of netting six times across meetings with Greece, Ivory Coast, Japan, Uruguay and Brazil.

Thomas Muller

Four players managed to record five goals apiece at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, with eventual champion David Villa of Spain among them. Uruguay striker Diego Forlan and Netherlands playmaker Wesley Sneijder also achieved the feat, but Germany star Muller landed the Golden Boot courtesy of his three assists.

Miroslav Klose

German legend Klose is the all-time leading goalscorer in World Cup history, with 16 efforts to his name. He topped the scoring charts at an individual tournament in 2006 on home soil, with braces recorded against Costa Rica and Ecuador before also netting in a quarter-final clash with Argentina.

Ronaldo

One of the greatest strikers the game has ever seen, the original Ronaldo represented Brazil at four World Cups - winning two of them. His best showing came in a successful 2002 campaign when he netted eight times, including a brace in the final, and would go on to collect a second Ballon d'Or of his career later that year.

Legend

Another opportunity to join the great and good of world football has now presented itself, with Kane out to make history as the first man to go back-to-back, and the likelihood is that the Golden Boot will end up in possession of someone who puts their country in the hunt for ultimate glory.