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 Trophy for the team with the best record of fair play (first awarded in 1970);
- 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.
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[edit] Golden Boot
The Golden Boot Award goes to the top goalscorer of the FIFA World Cup.
The award was introduced at the 1930 World Cup. The 1994 World Cup in the United States was the first time that Silver and Bronze boots awards were added to reward the second and third top scorers in the tournament.[1] Since 1994, 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 assists (with the FIFA Technical Study Group deciding whether an assist is to be counted as such). If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time.
| 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 |  Sándor 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
|
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. The next highest scorers in the World Cup scored five goals each.
4 During the tournament, after the group stage match against Turkey, Ronaldo logged a protest against the crediting of a goal as own goal, and FIFA granted him the change.
[edit] Golden Ball
The Golden Ball award is presented to the best 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.
This Award was first awarded in 1982.
[edit] Yashin Award
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:
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 |
[edit] FIFA Fair Play Trophy
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.[4]
| World Cup | FIFA Fair Play Trophy winners |
|---|---|
| 1970 Mexico |  Peru |
| 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 |
[edit] Most Entertaining Team
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. In 2006, Portugal was also named the most entertaining team so far.
| World Cup | Most Entertaining Team Award |
|---|---|
| 1994 USA | Brazil |
| 1998 France | France |
| 2002 Korea/Japan |  Korea Republic |
| 2006 Germany | Portugal |
[edit] Best Young Player Award
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[5]. 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 meant 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.
As a way to grant the recognized of retroactive form, FIFA organized a survey on the Internet for users to choose the "best young player" of the World Cup, between 1958 and 2002, named the best young player of each tournament.[6] With 61% of the overall vote, the winner was Pelé. "O Rei" (The King) finished ahead of the Peruvian Teofilo Cubillas, the best young player at Mexico 1970, and England’s Michael Owen, who reached similar heights at France 98. [7]
| World Cup | Young Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 Sweden | Pelé |
17 |
| 1962 Chile |  Florian Albert |
20 |
| 1966 England | Franz Beckenbauer |
20 |
| 1970 Mexico | Teofilo Cubillas |
21 |
| 1974 West Germany | Władysław Żmuda |
20 |
| 1978 Argentina | Antonio Cabrini |
20 |
| 1982 Spain | Manuel Amoros |
21 |
| 1986 Mexico | Enzo Scifo |
20 |
| 1990 Italy | Robert Prosinečki |
21 |
| 1994 USA |  Marc Overmars |
21 |
| 1998 France | Michael Owen |
18 |
| 2002 Korea/Japan |  Landon Donovan |
20 |
The Gillette Best Young Player Award was first awarded in 2006
| World Cup | Gillette Best Young Player Award | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 Germany | Lukas Podolski |
21 |
[edit] All-Star Team
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.
Only two players have 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, and Djalma Santos in 1954, 1958 and 1962. 18 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 (1958 and 1962); Pelé (1958 and 1970); Bobby Charlton (1966 and 1970); Teofilo Cubillas (1970 and 1978); Rob Rensenbrink (1974 and 1978); Berti Vogts (1974 and 1978); Paolo Rossi (1978 and 1982); 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).
Pelé is the only player to be named in All-Star teams 12 years apart (1958 and 1970).
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Nance, Roscoe (18 July 1994). "Officials anticipate $ 20M-$ 25M in profits". USA Today: pp. Sports, 8C. "Stoitchkov and Oleg Salenko of Russia are co-recipients of the FIFA/adidas Golden Shoe Award that goes to the tournament's top scorer. They each had six goals and one assist for 19 points. Three points are awarded for each goal and one for each assist. Kennet Andersson of Sweden is the recipient of the bronze shoe after finishing third with five goals and three assists (18 points)."
- ^ Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4354263,00.html
- ^ FIFA.com Classic Football - Garrincha bio
- ^ "XXI. Special awards and protocol" (PDF). FIFA. 52. http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/fwc06_regulations_en_1558.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-10-19.
- ^ "Previous FIFA World Cups" (in English). http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/index.html. Retrieved on 2008-07-17.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award" (in English). http://www.footballdatabase.com/index.php?page=award&Id=9. Retrieved on 2009-03-11.
- ^ "Pele voted best ever Young Player" (in English). http://www.newagebd.com/2006/may/12/spt.html. Retrieved on 2009-03-11.
- [3] For Mario kempes & Paolo Rossi 1978
- [4] For Guillermo Stábile 1930
- [5] For Wolfgang Overath 1970
- [6] For Kazimierz Deyna 1974
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