Cody Gakpo has been awarded the Golden Boot after the top of Euro 2024, sharing the prize with 5 different gamers after a change of guidelines from UEFA.
Gakpo was arguably the Netherlands’ finest participant as they reached the semi-finals of this summer time’s Euros, shining in his pure function on the left wing.
Although the Dutch finally missed out on a spot within the closing to England, the 25-year-old has come away with a person honour.
Having scored three objectives on the match in Germany, Gakpo is one in all six gamers to share this yr’s Golden Boot award.
This comes after UEFA decided that assists would now not be thought-about as a tie-breaker within the occasion of a number of gamers scoring the identical variety of objectives, as has been the case previously.
It means Gakpo will share the prize with England’s Harry Kane, Spain’s Dani Olmo, Germany’s Jamal Musiala, Slovakia’s Ivan Schranz and Georgia’s Georges Mikautadze.
Kane and Olmo each had the chance to take the award for themselves, however neither discovered the again of the web in Sunday’s closing.
If assists had been thought-about the Golden Boot would have gone to Olmo, with the Spain midfielder additionally having arrange two objectives for his team-mates.
Gakpo scored three and assisted one, and was briefly credited with a fourth objective earlier than the Netherlands’ winner in opposition to Turkiye within the quarter-finals was adjudged to be a Mert Muldur personal objective.
Olmo, with 5, was the one participant to contribute to extra objectives on the match than Gakpo, with Mikautadze additionally having a hand in 4.
It’s the first time the award has been shared since Euro 2000, when Patrick Kluivert and Savo Milosevic each netted 5 occasions.
The final Liverpool participant to win the Golden Boot was Milan Baros, who scored 5 for the Czech Republic on the 2004 version of the match.
Spain midfielder Rodri was named Participant of the Event this time round, whereas Lamine Yamal got here away with Younger Participant of the Event.
