{"id":6161,"date":"2026-07-04T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2026-07-04T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:05:00","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-golden-boot-race-tracker-mbappe-back-with-messi-kane-lurking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6161","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup Golden Boot Race Tracker: Mbapp\u00e9 Back With Messi, Kane 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. After Messi jumped past Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 following his goal against Cape Verde, Mbapp\u00e9 matched him after his penalty in the second half of France&#8217;s round of 16 matchup against Paraguay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>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>Lionel Messi: +110 (bet $10 to win $21 total)<br \/>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9: +135 (bet $10 to win $23.50 total)<br \/>Harry Kane: +1600 (bet $10 to win $170 total)<br \/>Mikel Oyarzabal: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)<br \/>Erling Haaland: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 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: +5500 (bet $10 to win $560 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":6160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6161","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\/6161","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=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}