Kylian Mbappe won the 2026 World Cup Golden Boot after Lionel Messi failed to add to his tally in the final in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
The France captain scored 10 goals to top the charts ahead of Argentina great Messi, who finished with eight.<\/p>\n
England midfielder Jude Bellingham and Norway striker Erling Haaland each scored seven times.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid forward Mbappe, 27, also won the prize at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where France were beaten finalists.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman, who made his World Cup debut in 2018, scored twice in Saturday’s third-place play-off, which England won 6-4.<\/p>\n
Mbappe is now the top scorer in World Cup history, with 22 goals across three World Cups, one ahead of Messi.<\/p>\n
“I would have preferred not to be the all-time top scorer and to be playing tomorrow’s match,” said Mbappe, who has won more than 100 caps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe won the 2026 World Cup Golden Boot after Lionel Messi failed to add to his tally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-535535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}