Doha, Dec 18 (IANS) 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 goals1934 - Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) - 5 goals1938 - Leonidas (Brazil) - 7 goals1950 - Ademir (Brazil) - 9 goals1954 - Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) - 11 goals1958 - Just Fontaine (France) - 13 goals1962 - Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile) - 4 goals1966 - Eusebio (Portugal) 9 goals1970 - Gerd Muller (West Germany) - 10 goals1974 - Grzegorz Lato (Poland) - 7 goals1978 - Mario Kempes (Argentina) - 6 goals1982 - Paolo Rossi (Italy) - 6 goals1986 - Gary Lineker (England) - 6 goals1990 - Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) - 6 goals1994 - Oleg Salenko (Russia), Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) - 6 goals1998 - Davor Suker (Croatia) - 6 goals2002 - Ronaldo (Brazil) - 8 goals2006 - Miroslav Klose (Germany) - 5 goals2010 - Thomas Muller (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), David Villa (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay) - 5 goals2014 - James Rodriguez (Colombia) - 6 goals2018 - Harry Kane (England) - 6 goals
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