France star striker Kylian Mbappé is the winner of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Golden Boot award after scoring 3 objectives in Sunday’s last versus Argentina, taking his overall to 8 in the competition.
Lionel Messi endedup with 7 objectives and would have won the tiebreaker on helps had he and Mbappé connected. Argentina won the impressive last on charge kicks (4-2) after the videogame completed connected at 3-3 in policy.
Mbappé, 23, is the veryfirst Frenchman to win the Golden Boot, though Just Fontaine scored a record 13 objectives at the 1958 World Cup, priorto the award was presented. Antoine Griezmann endedup 2nd in objectives scored at the 2018 World Cup.
Mbappe is likewise simply the 5th male to rating in numerous World Cup finals and the 2nd to rating in back-to-back finals.
What Mbappé can’t state is that he’s the youngest Golden Boot winner ever. Germany’s Thomas Müller won it as a 20-year-old at the 2010 World Cup. Müller endedup a objective shy of endingupbeing the veryfirst two-time Golden Boot winner in 2014.
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