Germany striker, Miroslav Klose was awarded the Golden Shoe Award at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals. (The Golden Shoe Award is also known as the Golden Boot. The award was given for the first time in 1930).
He scored five goals in the tournament, two clear of eight players on three goals.
Miroslav Klose played in seven matches for a total duration of 582 minutes and averaged 0.7142857 goals per match. He scored twice against Costa Rica and Ecuador in the group matches. He also hit the equalizer against Argentina in the quarterfinal match and at that stage, he had scored five goals out of the five matches played. Klose played brilliantly and played a crucial role in the host nation's third-place match against Portugal.
The eight players who scored three goals in the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany were:
Argentineans Hernan Crespo & Maxi Rodriguez; Frenchmen Zinedine Zidane & Thierry Henry; Spaniard David Villa & Fernando Torres; Brazilian Ronaldo and German Lukas Podolski.
Hernan Crespo played in four matches for a total duration of 305 minutes and averaged 0.75 goals per match whereas Ronaldo played in five matches for a total duration of 409 minutes and averaged 0.60 goals per match;
thus the Silver Shoe was awarded to Argentinean Hernan Crespo and the Bronze Shoe was given to Brazilian Ronaldo.
YEAR
HOST
WINNER
TEAM
GOALS
1930
Uruguay
Guillermo Stabile
Argentina
8
1934
Italy
Oldrich Nejedly
Czechoslovakia
4
1934
Italy
Edmund Conen
Germany
4
1934
Italy
Angelo Schiavio
Italy
4
1938
France
Leonidas
Brazil
8
1950
Brazil
Ademir
Brazil
9
1954
Switzerland
Sandor Kocsis
Hungary
11
1958
Sweden
Just Fontaine
France
13
1962
Chile
Florian Albert
Hungary
4
1962
Chile
Valentin Ivanov
U.S.S.R.
4
1962
Chile
Drazen Jerkovic
Yugoslavia
4
1962
Chile
Leonel Sanchez
Chile
4
1962
Chile
Vava
Brazil
4
1962
Chile
Garrincha
Brazil
4
1966
England
Eusebio
Portugal
9
1970
Mexico
Gerd Muller
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
10
1974
West Germany
Gregorz Lato
Poland
7
1978
Argentina
Mario Kempes
Argentina
6
1982
Spain
Paolo Rossi
Italy
6
1986
Mexico
Gary Lineker
England
6
1990
Italy
Salvatore Schillaci
Italy
6
1994
USA
Histro Stoichkov
Bulgaria
6
1998
France
Davor Suker
Croatia
6
2002
South Korea & Japan
Ronaldo
Brazil
8
2006
Germany
Miroslav Klose
Federal Republic of Germany (Germany)
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