FIFA World Cup awards

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At the end of each FIFA World Cup final tournament, several awards are attributed to the players and teams which have distinguished from the rest, in different aspects of the game.

There are currently six awards:

The Golden Shoe (also known as the Golden Boot, since 1982 commercially termed "adidas Golden Shoe") was first awarded in 1930 for top goal scorer;
The Golden Ball (currently commercially termed "adidas Golden Ball") for best player;
The Yashin Award for best goalkeeper (first awarded in 1994);
The FIFA Fair Play Award for the team with the best record of fair play (first awarded in 1978);
The Most Entertaining Team award for the team that has entertained the public the most, during the World Cup final tournament, as determined by a poll of the general public, first awarded in 1994;
The Best Young Player (currently commercially termed as "Gillette Best Young Player") award for best player under 21 years of age at the start of the calendar year, first awarded in 2006.

An All-Star Team (currently commercially termed "Mastercard All-Star Team") comprising of the best players of the tournament, is also announced for each tournament since 1990.

1 Golden Shoe
2 Golden Ball
3 Yashin Award
4 FIFA Fair Play Trophy
5 Most Entertaining Team
6 Best Young Player Award
7 All-Star Team
8 Notes and references

The Golden Shoe Award goes to the top goalscorer of the FIFA World Cup. Assists serve as a tiebreaker with the FIFA Technical Study Group deciding whether an assist is to be counted as such. The assists will only be counted if two or more players are equal on goals scored. Further ties are settled in favor of the player with the least time played.

The award was introduced at the 1930 World Cup for the first time. The 2006 World Cup in Germany was the first time that the Silver and Bronze shoe awards were added to reward the second and third top scorers in the tournament. If there is more than one player with the same amount of goals, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has contributed the most number of assists. If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of minutes.

World Cup	Top Goalscorer	Goals
1930 Uruguay	Guillermo Stábile	8
1934 Italy	Oldřich Nejedlý	5⁽¹⁾
1938 France	Leônidas da Silva	7⁽²⁾
1950 Brazil	Ademir	9⁽³⁾
1954 Switzerland	Sandor Kocsis	11
1958 Sweden	Just Fontaine	13
1962 Chile	Garrincha Vavá Leonel Sánchez Dražan Jerković Valentin Ivanov Flórián Albert	4

World Cup	Golden Shoe Award	Goals
1966 England	Eusébio	9
1970 Mexico	Gerd Müller	10
1974 West Germany	Grzegorz Lato	7
1978 Argentina	Mario Kempes	6
1982 Spain	Paolo Rossi	6
1986 Mexico	Gary Lineker	6
1990 Italy	Salvatore Schillaci	6
1994 USA	Hristo Stoichkov Oleg Salenko	6
1998 France	Davor Šuker	6
2002 Korea/Japan	Ronaldo	8⁽⁴⁾

World Cup	Golden Shoe	Goals	Silver Shoe	Goals	Bronze Shoe	Goals
2006 Germany	Miroslav Klose	5	Hernán Crespo	3	Ronaldo	3

¹ FIFA initially credited Nejedlý with only four goals, which would make him joint top scorer with Angelo Schiavio of Italy and Edmund Conen of Germany. However, FIFA changed it to five goals in November 2006, making Nejedlý the outright top scorer. [1]

² FIFA initially credited Leônidas with eight goals. However, in November 2006, FIFA confirmed that in the quarter-final tie against Czechoslovakia, he scored once, not twice as FIFA had originally recorded, meaning he scored only seven goals in total. [2] Moreover, in some sources, Leônidas was mis-credited one Brazilian goal in the first-round match against Poland, scoring four goals instead of three in the match.

³ There was controversy regarding how many goals Brazilian Ademir Menezes scored in 1950, because of incomplete data concerning the Final Round game Brazil vs. Spain (6:1). The first goal had been credited as an own goal by Spanish defender Parra, and the 5:0 goal had been credited to Jair. However, recently FIFA credited Ademir with both these goals; thus he is the 1950 World Cup top scorer with 9 goals.

⁴ During the tournament, after the group stage match against Costa Rica, Ronaldo logged a protest against the crediting of a goal as own goal, and FIFA granted him the change.

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The Golden Ball award is presented to the most valuable player at each FIFA World Cup finals, with a shortlist drawn up by the FIFA technical committee and the winner voted for by representatives of the media. Those who finish as runners-up in media voting receive the adidas Silver Ball and Bronze Ball awards as the 2nd and 3rd most outstanding players in the tournament respectively.

World Cup	Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
1930 Uruguay	Guillermo Stábile	Pedro Cea	José Nasazzi
1934 Italy	Giuseppe Meazza	Matthias Sindelar	Oldřich Nejedlý
1938 France	Leônidas^[1]	Silvio Piola	Gyula Zsengellér
1950 Brazil	Zizinho^[2]	Juan Schiaffino	Ademir
1954 Switzerland	Sándor Kocsis	Helmut Rahn	Fritz Walter
1958 Sweden	Raymond Kopa^[3]	Pelé	Just Fontaine
1962 Chile	Garrincha^[4]	Vavá	Josef Masopust
1966 England	Sir Bobby Charlton	Bobby Moore	Eusébio
1970 Mexico	Pelé	Wolfgang Overath	Carlos Alberto Torres
1974 West Germany	Johan Cruijff	Franz Beckenbauer	Kazimierz Deyna
1978 Argentina	Mario Kempes	Paolo Rossi	Dirceu

This Award was first awarded in 1982.

World Cup	Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
1982 Spain	Paolo Rossi	Falcão	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1986 Mexico	Diego Maradona	Harald Schumacher	Preben Elkjær
1990 Italy	Lothar Matthäus	Salvatore Schillaci	Diego Maradona
1994 USA	Romário	Roberto Baggio	Hristo Stoichkov
1998 France	Ronaldo	Davor Šuker	Lilian Thuram
2002 Korea/Japan	Oliver Kahn	Ronaldo	Hong Myung-Bo
2006 Germany	Zinedine Zidane	Fabio Cannavaro	Andrea Pirlo

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The Yashin Award for the Best Goalkeeper is named in honor of the late goalkeeper Lev Yashin (USSR). The FIFA Technical Study Group recognizes the top goalkeeper of the tournament based on the player’s performance throughout the final competition. Although goalkeepers have this specific award for their position, they are still eligible for the Golden Ball as well, as when Oliver Kahn was awarded in 2002. Although the Yashin was first awarded in 1994, every All-Star Team in World Cups prior to 1998 included only one goalkeeper:

World Cup	Goalkeeper included in the All-Star Team
1930 Uruguay	Enrique Ballesteros
1934 Italy	Ricardo Zamora
1938 France	Frantisek Planicka
1950 Brazil	Roque Máspoli
1954 Switzerland	Gyula Grosics
1958 Sweden	Lev Yashin
1962 Chile	Antonio Carbajal
1966 England	Gordon Banks
1970 Mexico	Ladislao Mazurkiewicz
1974 West Germany	Jan Tomaszewski
1978 Argentina	Ubaldo Fillol
1982 Spain	Dino Zoff
1986 Mexico	Harald Schumacher
1990 Italy	Sergio Goycoechea

The Yashin Award was first awarded in 1994

World Cup	Yashin Award winner
1994 USA	Michel Preud'homme
1998 France	Fabien Barthez
2002 Korea/Japan	Oliver Kahn
2006 Germany	Gianluigi Buffon

The FIFA Fair Play Trophy is given to the team with the best record of fair play during the World Cup final tournament. Only teams that qualified for the second round are considered. The winners of this award earn the FIFA Fair Play Trophy, a diploma, a fair play medal for each player and official, and $50,000 worth of football equipment to be used for youth development.

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

The FIFA Award for the Most Entertaining Team is a fairly new accolade for the FIFA World Cup. It is a subjectively awarded prize for the team which has done the most to entertain the public with a positive approach to the game. The award is always organized through public participation in a poll. Recent awards have been determined by an Internet vote which may not fairly and accurately represent fan demographics.

World Cup	Most Entertaining Team Award
1998 France	France
2002 Korea/Japan	Korea Republic
2006 Germany	Portugal

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The Best Young Player (commercially termed "Gillette Best Young Player") award was awarded for the first time at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and given to Germany's Lukas Podolski. The award is given to the best player in the tournament who is at most 21 years old. For the 2006 FIFA World Cup this means that the player had to have been born on or after 1 January 1985. The election took place on FIFA's official World Cup website with the help of The FIFA Technical Study Group.

World Cup	Best Young Player Award
1930 Uruguay	Bert Patenaude
1934 Italy	Edmund Conen
1938 France	Alfred Bickel
1950 Brazil	Lennart Skoglund
1954 Switzerland	Raymond Kopa
1958 Sweden	Pelé
1962 Chile	Florian Albert
1966 England	Franz Beckenbauer
1970 Mexico	Teofilo Cubillas
1974 West Germany	Wladyslaw Zmuda
1978 Argentina	Antonio Cabrini
1982 Spain	Manuel Amoros
1986 Mexico	Vincenzo Scifo
1990 Italy	Robert Prosinečki
1994 USA	Marc Overmars
1998 France	Michael Owen
2002 Korea/Japan	Christoph Metzelder

The Best Young Player Award was first awarded in 2006

World Cup	Best Young Player Award
2006 Germany	Lukas Podolski

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The All-Star Team, currently named after its current sponsor MasterCard All-Star Team, is a team of the best 23 players, chosen by FIFA's technical study group, from the World Cup Finals. The number of players was expanded from 11 to 16 at the 1998 finals, and then to the current 23. Before 1998, journalists and experts chose a "Dream Team" with outstanding players from each playing position. The teams were chosen mostly by European and South American journalists.

World Cup	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
1930 Uruguay	Enrique Ballesteros	José Nasazzi Milutin Ivković	Luis Monti Alvaro Gestido José Andrade	Pedro Cea Héctor Castro Héctor Scarone Guillermo Stabile Bert Patenaude
1934 Italy	Ricardo Zamora	Jacinto Quincoces Eraldo Monzeglio	Luis Monti Attilio Ferraris Leonardo Cilaurren	Giuseppe Meazza Raimundo Orsi Enrique Guaita Matthias Sindelar Oldrich Nejedly
1938 France	Frantisek Planicka	Pietro Rava Alfredo Foni Domingos da Guia	Michele Andreolo Ugo Locatelli	Silvio Piola Gino Colaussi György Sárosi Gyula Zsengellér Leônidas
1950 Brazil	Roque Máspoli	Erik Nilsson José Parra Schubert Gambetta	Obdulio Varela Walter Bahr	Ghiggia Zizinho Ademir Jair Schiaffino
1954 Switzerland	Gyula Grosics	Ernst Ocwirk József Bozsik José Santamaría	Fritz Walter Bauer	Helmut Rahn Nándor Hidegkuti Ferenc Puskás Sándor Kocsis Zoltan Czibor
1958 Sweden	Lev Yashin	Djalma Santos Bellini Nílton Santos	Danny Blanchflower Didi	Pelé Garrincha Just Fontaine Raymond Kopa Gunnar Gren
1962 Chile	Antonio Carbajal	Djalma Santos Cesare Maldini Valeriy Voronin Karl-Heinz Schnellinger	Zagallo Zito Josef Masopust	Vavá Garrincha Leonel Sanchez
1966 England	Gordon Banks	George Cohen Bobby Moore Valeriy Voronin Silvio Marzolini	Franz Beckenbauer Coluna Bobby Charlton	Florian Albert Uwe Seeler Eusébio
1970 Mexico	Ladislao Mazurkiewicz	Carlos Alberto Piazza Franz Beckenbauer Giacinto Facchetti	Gérson Gianni Rivera Bobby Charlton	Pelé Gerd Müller Jairzinho
1974 West Germany	Jan Tomaszewski	Berti Vogts Wim Suurbier Franz Beckenbauer Marinho Chagas	Wolfgang Overath Kazimierz Deyna Johan Neeskens	Rob Rensenbrink Johan Cruijff Grzegorz Lato
1978 Argentina	Ubaldo Fillol	Berti Vogts Ruud Krol Daniel Passarella Alberto Tarantini	Dirceu Franco Causio Rob Rensenbrink	Teofilo Cubillas Daniel Bertoni Mario Kempes
1982 Spain	Dino Zoff	Claudio Gentile Luizinho Fulvio Collovati Júnior	Zbigniew Boniek Falcão Michel Platini Zico	Paolo Rossi Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1986 Mexico	Harald Schumacher	Josimar Manuel Amoros Maxime Bossis	Jan Ceulemans Felix Magath Michel Platini Diego Maradona	Preben Elkjær Larsen Emilio Butragueño Gary Lineker
1990 Italy	Sergio Goycoechea	Andreas Brehme Paolo Maldini Franco Baresi	Diego Maradona Lothar Matthäus Roberto Donadoni Paul Gascoigne	Salvatore Schillaci Roger Milla Tomas Skuhravy
1994 USA	Michel Preud'homme	Jorginho Márcio Santos Paolo Maldini	Dunga Krasimir Balakov Gheorghe Hagi Tomas Brolin	Romário Hristo Stoichkov Roberto Baggio
1998 France	Fabien Barthez José Luis Chilavert	Roberto Carlos Marcel Desailly Lilian Thuram Frank de Boer Carlos Gamarra	Dunga Rivaldo Michael Laudrup Zinedine Zidane Edgar Davids	Ronaldo Davor Šuker Brian Laudrup Dennis Bergkamp
2002 Korea/Japan	Oliver Kahn Rüştü Reçber	Roberto Carlos Sol Campbell Fernando Hierro Hong Myung-Bo Rafael Marquez	Rivaldo Ronaldinho Michael Ballack Yoo Sang-Chul	Ronaldo Miroslav Klose El Hadji Diouf Hasan Şaş
2006 Germany	Gianluigi Buffon Jens Lehmann Ricardo	Roberto Ayala John Terry Lilian Thuram Philipp Lahm Fabio Cannavaro Gianluca Zambrotta Ricardo Carvalho	Zé Roberto Patrick Vieira Zinedine Zidane Michael Ballack Andrea Pirlo Gennaro Gattuso Luís Figo Cristiano Ronaldo	Hernán Crespo Thierry Henry Miroslav Klose Francesco Totti Luca Toni

Only one player has been named in three separate All-Star teams: Franz Beckenbauer of West Germany, who was included in the 1966, 1970, and 1974 editions of the All-Star Team. Eighteen others have been named to two separate All-Star teams: Luis Monti (1930 and 1934; however in 1930 he was representing Argentina while in 1934 he represented Italy); Garrincha, Valeriy Voronin and Djalma Santos (1958 and 1962); Pelé (1958 and 1970); Bobby Charlton(1966 and 1970); Berti Vogts (1974 and 1978); Michel Platini (1982 and 1986); Diego Maradona (1986 and 1990); Paolo Maldini (1990 and 1994); Dunga (1994 and 1998); Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, and Ronaldo (1998 and 2002); Lilian Thuram and Zinedine Zidane (1998 and 2006); Michael Ballack and Miroslav Klose (2002 and 2006).