World Cup 2026: Kylian Mbappe turns into first participant to win Golden Boot twice as Rodri named finest participant

Kylian Mbappe has grow to be the primary participant to win the World Cup Golden Boot twice after incomes the award for prime scorer on the 2026 match.

The France ahead netted 10 objectives in eight video games to edge out Lionel Messi in a high-quality race.

Having struck eight occasions to complete prime scorer at Qatar 2022, Mbappe has gained the Golden Boot in back-to-back World Cups.

The 27-year-old was the primary man to achieve double figures for World Cup objectives since Gerd Muller for West Germany in 1970.

Solely Simply Fontaine, who hit 13 for France in 1958, and Hungary’s Sandor Kocsis with 11 in 1954, have scored extra particular person objectives in a single match.

Mbappe can also be now the lads’s World Cup all-time prime scorer with 22 objectives – one forward of Messi.

World champions Spain swept the remainder of the awards, together with captain Rodri successful the Golden Ball because the match’s finest participant.

Mbappe moved away from Messi on Saturday with two objectives within the bronze match, though he couldn’t cease France falling to a 6-4 defeat in opposition to England and ending fourth.

“Once you rating that many objectives within the World Cup, it definitely takes you to a complete new stage,” he mentioned after Saturday’s match in Miami.

“However I might have most popular to not be the highest scorer and to have performed within the ultimate. It is good for my legacy as soon as I’ve retired, however proper now, that is not what’s on my thoughts.”

Mbappe additionally scored twice in opposition to Senegal and Iraq within the group stage, in addition to Sweden within the final 32.

He adopted that with strikes in opposition to Paraguay within the final 16 – the Seventieth-minute winner from the penalty spot – and in opposition to Morocco within the quarter-finals.

Messi might have overtaken the Actual Madrid ahead with a hat-trick within the World Cup ultimate on Sunday.

Nonetheless, the 39-year-old couldn’t discover the web in New Jersey as his Argentina facet have been crushed 1-0 by Spain, and ended the competitors with eight objectives in as many matches.

England’s Jude Bellingham and Erling Haaland of Norway scored seven occasions, whereas France ahead Ousmane Dembele and English captain Harry Kane adopted them within the listing with six.