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FIFA World Cup Awards

June 5, 2006 @ 3:36 am · Filed under FIFA World Cup

At the end of each World Cup final tournament, 5 awards were presented to the players and teams for their achievements other than winning the tournament outright. And this year a new award has been introduced i.e. The Gillette Best Young Player Award.
1) The Golden Boot/Shoe - The Golden Boot (or Golden Shoe) is awarded to the top goalscorer of the World Cup final tournament. It was first awarded in 1930.

World Cup
Top Goal Scorer
Goals
1930 Uruguay
Guillermo Stabile (Argentina)
8
Edmund Conen (Germany)
1934 Italy
Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia)
4
Angelo Schiavio (Italy)
1938 France
Leonidas (Brazil)
8
1950 Brazil
Ademir (Brazil)
9
1954 Switzerland
Sandor Kocsis (Hungary)
11
1958 Sweden
Just Fontaine (France)
13
Garrincha (Brazil)
Vava (Brazil)
1962 Chile
Leonel Sanchez (Chile)
4
Drazen Jerkovic (Yugoslavia)
Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union)
Florian Albert (Hungary)
1966 England Eusébio (Portugal) 9
1970 Mexico Gerd Müller (West Germany) 10
1974 West Germany Grzegorz Lato (Poland) 7
1978 Argentina Mario Kempes (Argentina) 6

Addidas Golden Boot winners :
World Cup
Top Goal Scorer
Goals
1982 Spain
Paolo Rossi (Italy)
6
1986 Mexico
Gary Lineker (England)
6
1990 Italy
Salvatore Schillaci (Italy)
6
1994 USA
Hristo Stoitchkov (Bulgaria)
6
Oleg Salenko (Russia)
1998 France
Davor Suker (Croatia)
6
2002 Korea/Japan
Ronaldo (Brazil)
8
2006 Germany Miroslav Klose (Germany) 4

2) The Golden Ball Award is for the best player. It was first introduced in 1982. FIFA announces a shortlist of ten nominees, which is then voted by media representatives. The most voted player is elected to win the Golden Ball, the second most voted player wins the Silver Ball and the third most voted player wins the Bronze Ball.

World Cup
Addidas Golden Ball
Addidas Silver Ball
Addidas Bronze Ball
1982 Spain
Paolo Rossi (Ity.)
 Falcao (Bra.)
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
(Ger.)
1986 Mexico
Diego Maradona
(Arg.)
 Harald Schumacher
(Ger.)		 Preben Elkjær
(Den.)
1990 Italy
Salvatore Schillaci
(Ity.)
 Lothar Matthäus
(Ger.)
Diego Maradona
(Arg.)
1994 USA
Romario (Bra.)
 Roberto Baggio
(Ity.)		 Hristo Stoitchkov
(Bul.)
1998 France
Ronaldo (Bra.)
 Davor Suker (Cro.)
Lilian Thuram (Fra.)
2002 Korea/Japan
Oliver Kahn
(Ger.)
 Ronaldo
(Bra.)
Hong Myung-Bo
(St. Kor.)
2006 Germany Zinedine Zidane (Fra.) Favio Cannavaro(Ity) Andrea Pirlo (Ity)

3) The Yashin Award is for the best goalkeeper (first awarded in 1994). The award is named in honour of the late and legendary Russian goalkeeper, Lev Yashin.

World Cup
Yashin Award Winner
1994 USA
Michel Preud’homme (Belgium)
1998 France
Fabien Barthez (France)
2002 Korea/Japan
Oliver Kahn (Germany)
2006 Germany Gianluigi Buffon (Italy)

4)The FIFA Fair Play Award is for the team with the best record of fair play (first awarded in 1978).

World Cup
Fair Play Award Winner
1978 Argentina
Argentina
1982 Spain
Brazil
1986 Mexico
Brazil
1990 Italy England
1994 USA Brazil
1998 France England AND France
2002 Korea/Japan Belgium
2006 Germany Brazil AND Spain

5)The Most Entertaining Team Award is for the team that has entertained the public the most during the World Cup final tournament, as determined by general public poll, (first awarded in 1994).

World Cup
Most Entertaining Team
1994 USA Brazil
1998 France France
2002 Korea/Japan South Korea
2006 Germany Portugal

6) The Gillette Best Young Player Award, which will be awarded for the first time in 2006 to the best player under 21 years of age.

World Cup Best Young Player Award
2006 Germany Lukas Podolski

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