{"id":6075,"date":"2026-07-03T22:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:35:29","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-golden-boot-race-tracker-messi-back-in-front-mbappe-lurking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6075","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup Golden Boot Race Tracker: Messi Back In Front; Mbapp\u00e9 Lurking"},"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 led the race through the group stages. But Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 caught him after scoring his second goal during the second half of France&#8217;s round of 32 matchup against Sweden. Harry Kane, Erling Haaland and Cristiano Ronaldo are among the other players expected to challenge for the award. And don&#8217;t count out Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Check out our list of all the 2026 World Cup group-stage goals, ranked!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9: +125 (bet $10 to win $22.50 total)<br \/>Lionel Messi: +140 (bet $10 to win $24 total)<br \/>Harry Kane: +750 (bet $10 to win $85 total)<br \/>Erling Haaland: +2200 (bet $10 to win $230 total)<br \/>Mikel Oyarzabal: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)<br \/>Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)<br \/>Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)<br \/>Cristiano Ronaldo: +6000 (bet $10 to win $610 total)<br \/>Jonathan David: +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total)<br \/>Ismael Saibari: +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 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":6074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6075","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\/6075","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=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}