Mbappe takes home second Golden Boot, Spain sweeps World Cup awards

While Ferran Torres orchestrated Spain’s winning the eventual prize, his teammates locomotion distant with awards of their own.

Spain dethroned Argentina to lift the World Cup trophy and beckon a caller epoch successful planetary shot aft substitute Ferran Torres scored a objective extremity to springiness his broadside a 1-0 triumph successful the 106th infinitesimal astatine New York New Jersey Stadium.

La Roja yet broke the deadlock aft dominating Argentina for astir of the lucifer successful beforehand of 80,000 fans connected Sunday.

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“It was a extremity scored by 47 cardinal radical – it wasn’t adjacent excavation oregon from the 26 players. It ‌was destined to happen; it was meant to beryllium a winner,” Torres said aft the win.

While helium orchestrated Spain’s winning the eventual prize, his teammates walked distant with awards of their own.

Here’s a afloat breakdown of each the 2026 World Cup awards:

Golden Boot Award: Kylian Mbappe – France

France’s Kylian Mbappe scores his side’s 3rd extremity during the World Cup third-place playoff lucifer against England [Rebecca Blackwell/AP]

At 27, Mbappe tin confidently telephone himself the champion striker successful the satellite with the most World Cup goals successful history (22) and the astir astatine this tourney (10).

He snatched backmost the grant from Lionel Messi aft netting doubly successful France’s third-place lucifer against England, which the Three Lions yet won 6-4.

With 10 goals and 4 assists, Mbappe edged retired Messi’s 8 goals and 4 assists to triumph the coveted award, which the Frenchman has won a grounds 2 times now.

Top extremity scorers: 

• Kylian Mbappe (France): 10 goals, 4 assists
• Lionel Messi (Argentina): 8 goals, 4 assists
• Jude Bellingham (England): 7 goals, 1 assist
• Erling Haaland (Norway): 7 goals, 0 assists
• Ousmane Dembele (France): 6 goals, 2 assists
• Harry Kane (England): 6 goals, 2 assists
• Mikel Oyarzabal (Spain): 5 goals, 1 assist
• Ismaila Sarr (Senegal): 4 goals, 1 assist
• Julián Quinones (Mexico): 4 goals, 1 assist
• Vinicius Junior (Brazil): 4 goals, 1 assist

Golden Ball award: Rodri – Spain

Spain’s Rodri celebrates with the tournament’s champion subordinate grant [Abbie Parr/AP]

Spain midfielder Rodri collected the Golden Ball award, fixed to the champion wide subordinate successful the tournament. While helium did not grounds a azygous extremity oregon assistance successful Spain’s 8 matches, helium completed much passes, ran much region and had much subordinate involvements than immoderate different subordinate successful this year’s tournament.

He besides played a cardinal relation successful heavy limiting Messi’s touches during Spain’s stifling 1-0 win.

Rodri edged retired Messi from this win, too, arsenic the Argentinian skipper settled for the Silver Ball and Mbappe took location the Bronze.

Golden Glove award: Unai Simon – Spain

Spain’s goalkeeper Unai Simon receives the Golden Glove grant [AFP]

Simon finished with 7 cleanable sheets, 2 much than the erstwhile grounds for a azygous World Cup.

The 29-year-old’s 9 vocation World Cup cleanable sheets are 1 disconnected the grounds of 10 shared by erstwhile France keeper Fabien Barthez and erstwhile England keeper Peter Shilton.

Best Young Player Award: Pau Cubarsi – Spain

Spain’s Pau Cubarsi kisses the trophy arsenic helium celebrates aft winning the World Cup [Hannah Mckay/Reuters]

The Spaniard’s aboriginal is agleam aft his objective show passim the tournament, not slightest successful Sunday’s World Cup final.

He lived up to the hype astir young players to ticker and delivered erstwhile it mattered the most, adjacent outshining Spain’s poster lad Lamine Yamal.

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera up of the final, shot icon Tobin Heath said Cubarsi was “the astir unthinkable name” that stood retired for her among young players (accurate investigation yet again).

“To beryllium truthful young, to play truthful galore minutes and beryllium truthful effectual with this Spanish defence, it highlights an unthinkable mode that Spain is generationally capable to truly link the ideas and implementation of the benignant of shot that they privation to play.”

FIFA Fair Play Award: The Netherlands

Netherlands are the eighth squad to instrumentality location the grant aft signaling lone 3 yellowish cards astatine the tournament.

The Dutch entered the World Cup arsenic favourites successful Group F, but their hold for a World Cup rubric was delayed by Morocco aft they defeated Oranje 3-2 connected penalties to nonstop them packing successful the circular of 32.