FIFA’s Golden Shoe poll hijacked by Iran fans
18th June 2006
FIFA is currently running a poll on its website, asking readers to select the likely Golden Shoe winner awarded for the top scorer in the World Cup. One surprise is that a number of the top contenders e.g. Adriano and Crespo do not figure in the list of choices. An even bigger one however is that according to voters, Ali Karimi of Iran, who has yet to score, is the most likely winner of the Golden Shoe. Six goals are usually required to win the award. Iran have only one match left, so Karimi will need to shoot on site if he is to break the World Cup record for goals scored by a player in one match (currently held by Oleg Salenko who scored 5 for Russia against Cameroon at USA ‘94) and fulfil the hopes of his fans…
