FIFA had released the name of golden boot nominees few hours ago. The list includes different players that have played good football and no goalkeeper was among the golden boot nominees.
-Angel Di Maria (Argentina)
-Mats Hummels (Germany)
- Toni Kroos (Germany)
-Philipp Lahm (Germany)
- Javier Mascherano (Argentina)
-Lionel Messi (Argentina)
- Thomas Muller (Germany)
-Neymar (Brazil)
-Arjen Robben (Netherlands)
-James Rodriguez (Colombia)
The list was released by the FIFA technical group that contains the likes of :
Gerard Houllier (France)
Raul Arias (Mexico)
Gabriel Calderon (Argentina)
Ricki Herbert (New Zealand)
Abdel M. Hussein (Sudan),
Ka Ming Kwok (Hong Kong)
Ioan Lupescu (Romania)
Gines Melendez Sotos (Spain)
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (Japan)
Sunday Oliseh (Nigeria)
Mixu Paatelainen (Finland)
Jaime Rodriguez (El Salvador)
Theodore Whitmore (Jamaica)
And headed by : Jean-Paul Brigger
The Golden Boot holder are:
Previous adidas Golden Ball winners:
1982 FIFA World Cup Spain: Paolo Rossi (Italy)
1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico: Diego Maradona (Argentina)
1990 FIFA World Cup Italy: Salvatore Schillaci (Italy)
1994 FIFA World Cup USA: Romario (Brazil)
1998 FIFA World Cup France: Ronaldo (Brazil)
2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan: Oliver Kahn (Germany)
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: Zinedine Zidane (France)
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: Diego Forlan (Uruguay)