{"id":549623,"date":"2026-07-19T22:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/549623\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:29:18","slug":"world-cup-2026-kylian-mbappe-becomes-first-player-to-win-golden-boot-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/549623\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Kylian Mbappe becomes first player to win Golden Boot twice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kylian Mbappe has become the first player to win the World Cup Golden Boot twice after earning the award for top scorer at the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n

The France forward netted 10 goals in eight games to edge out Lionel Messi in a high-quality race.<\/a><\/p>\n

Having struck eight times to finish top scorer at Qatar 2022<\/a>, Mbappe has won the Golden Boot in back-to-back World Cups.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old was the first man to reach double figures for World Cup goals since Gerd Muller for West Germany in 1970.<\/p>\n

Only Just Fontaine, who hit 13 for France in 1958<\/a>, and Hungary’s Sandor Kocsis with 11 in 1954, have scored more individual goals in a single tournament.<\/p>\n

Mbappe is also the men’s World Cup all-time top scorer with 22 goals – one ahead of Messi.<\/p>\n

He moved clear of the Argentine on Saturday with two goals in the bronze match, although he could not stop France falling to a 6-4 defeat against England<\/a> and finishing fourth.<\/p>\n

Mbappe also scored twice against Senegal and Iraq in the group stage, as well as Sweden in the last 32.<\/p>\n

He followed that with strikes against Paraguay in the last 16 – the 70th-minute winner from the penalty spot – and against Morocco in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Messi could have overtaken the Real Madrid forward with a hat-trick in the World Cup final on Sunday.<\/p>\n

However, the 39-year-old could not find the net in New Jersey as his Argentina side were beaten 1-0 by Spain, and ended the competition with eight goals in as many matches.<\/p>\n

England’s Jude Bellingham and Erling Haaland of Norway scored seven times, while France forward Ousmane Dembele and English captain Harry Kane followed them in the list with six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe has become the first player to win the World Cup Golden Boot twice after earning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-549623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}