The Golden Boot, which goes to the tournament’s top scorer, is the biggest of the secondary prizes on the line today.
Argentina’s Lionel Messi and France’s Kylian Mbappé lead the standings with five goals each entering the final, and their teammates Julián Álvarez and Olivier Giroud lurk right behind at four apiece.
To be clear, no one wants it if the award doesn’t come as a set with the World Cup trophy. But three of them (Messi in 2014, and Mbappé and Giroud in 2018) are set to start in their second final on Sunday, and all four are likely to have a direct say in their team’s World Cup destiny on Sunday.