Golden Ball
Golden Ball
The Golden Ball is awarded to the player that has been deemed to have had the most impact during the tournament. and has been the competitions best player. A shortlist of players is created by the FIFA technical committee and then the winner is voted by media, runners up receive the Silver and Bronze balls.
Golden Ball Past Winners
| World Cup | Golden Ball | Silver Ball | Bronze Ball |
| 1982 Spain | Paolo Rossi | Falcao | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge |
| 1986 Mexico | Diego Maradona | Harald Schumacher | Preben Elkjaer |
| 1990 Italy | Salvatore Schillaci | Lothar Matthaus | Diego Maradona |
| 1994 USA | Romario | Roberto Baggio | Hristo Stoichkov |
| 1998 France | Ronaldo | Davor Suker | Lilian Thuram |
| 2002 Korea/Japan | Oliver Kahn | Ronaldo | Hong Myung-Bo |
| 2006 Germany | Zinedine Zidane | Fabio Cannavaro | Andrea Pirlo |
| 2010 South Africa | Diego Forlan | Wesley Sneijder | David Villa |
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