{"id":5271,"date":"2026-06-22T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:55:38","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-golden-boot-race-tracker-messi-leads-pack-after-historic-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5271","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup Golden Boot Race Tracker: Messi Leads Pack After Historic Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Who&#8217;ll win the Golden Boot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup? The race is on for who&#8217;ll score the most goals at the tournament, and it is set to be one of the tournament&#8217;s most closely watched storylines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Several of the world&#8217;s top forwards will be aiming to finish as the competition&#8217;s leading goalscorer. Lionel Messi \u2013 now the top all-time goalscorer in FIFA men&#8217;s World Cup history \u2013 leads the race. Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Harry Kane, Erling Haaland and Mikel Oyarzabal are among the other players expected to challenge for the award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>And check out our list of all the 2026 World Cup goals, ranked!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9: +200 (bet $10 to win $30 total)<br \/>Harry Kane: +300 (bet $10 to win $40 total)<br \/>Lionel Messi: +300 (bet $10 to win $40 total)<br \/>Erling Haaland: +1200 (bet $10 to win $130 total)<br \/>Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior: +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)<br \/>Jonathan David: +2000 (bet $10 to win $210 total)<br \/>Kai Havertz: +2000 (bet $10 to win $210 total)<br \/>Matheus Cunha: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)<br \/>Johan Manzambi: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)<br \/>Deniz Undav: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)<br \/>Folarin Balogun: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)<br \/>Cristiano Ronaldo: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)<br \/>Luis D\u00edaz: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)<br \/>Mikel Oyarzabal: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)<br \/>Jude Bellingham: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)<br \/>Cody Gakpo: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)<br \/>Brian Brobbey: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Who&#8217;ll win the Golden Boot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup? The race is on for who&#8217;ll score the most goals at the tournament, and it is set to be one of the tournament&#8217;s most closely watched storylines. Several of the world&#8217;s top forwards will be aiming to finish as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}