The Golden Glove Award in FIFA World Cup

The Golden Glove Award or the Best Goalkeeper Award in FIFA World Cup

Michel Preud'homme

   The Golden Glove Award is given for the best goalkeeper of a respective FIFA World Cup football tournament. Currently, this award is commercially named as "Adidas Golden Glove Award". Previously, it was known as the "Lev Yashin Award" from 1994 to 2006 World Cup. This best goalkeeper’s award was introduced with the name “Lev Yashin” in 1994, in honor of the world famous late Soviet goalkeeper. 

   The man is selected by the FIFA Technical Study Group recognizes the top goalkeeper of the tournament based on the player’s performance throughout the whole competition. Although only the goalkeepers have this specific award (Golden Glove) for the position. But a goalkeeper can be eligible for the Golden Ball (best player) award as well as in a certain FIFA World Cup. The German goalkeeper “Oliver Kahn” won the Golden Ball award along with the Golden Glove award in 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan.

   This best goalkeeper’s award was introduced in 1994 from the FIFA World Cup in United States as “Lev Yashin Award”, and Belgian goalkeeper Michel Preud’homme was the first winner of this award. This award was continued in the same name till 2006 FIFA World Cup, after that this best goalkeeper’s award is named as “Adidas Golden Glove Award”. In 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas won the first “Adidas Golden Glove Award”.

   A list of FIFA Lev Yashin Award winners according to the respective World Cups:-

FIFA World Cup in 1994, United States:

Michel Preud’homme (Belgium)

FIFA World Cup in 1998, France:

Fabien Barthez (France)

FIFA World Cup in 2002, Korea and Japan:

Oliver Kahn (Germany)

FIFA World Cup in 2006, Germany:

Gianluigi Buffon (Italy)

   

   A list of FIFA Golden Glove Award winners according to the 

respective World Cups:-

FIFA World Cup in 2010, South Africa:

Iker Casillas (Spain)

FIFA World Cup in 2014, Brazil:

Manuel Neuer (Germany)

Oliver Kahn

   Although the Golden Glove Award was first awarded in 1994, every All-Star Team in World Cups there was a goalkeeper, and we can consider him as the best goalkeeper on the certain World Cup. But in 1990 and 1998 FIFA World Cup there are two goalkeepers and in 2006 World Cup there are three goalkeepers were listed in the All-Star Team and FIFA MasterCard All-Star Team.

The goalkeepers are listed in All-Star Team:-

World Cup in 1930, Uruguay: Enrique Ballestrero (Uruguay) 

World Cup in 1934, Italy: Ricardo Zamora (Italy) 

World Cup in 1938, France: Frantisek Planicka (Czechoslovakia) 

World Cup in 1950, Brazil: Roque Maspoli (Uruguay) 

World Cup in 1954, Switzerland: Gyula Grosics (Hungary) 

World Cup in 1958, Sweden: Harry Gregg (Northern Ireland) 

World Cup in 1962, Chile: Viliam Schrojf (Czechoslovakia) 

World Cup in 1966, England: Gordon Banks (England) 

World Cup in 1970, Mexico: Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (Uruguay) 

World Cup in 1974, West Germany: Sepp Maier (West Germany) 

World Cup in 1978, Argentina: Ubaldo Fillol (Argentina) 

World Cup in 1982, Spain: Dino Zoff (Italy) 

World Cup in 1986, Mexico: Jean-Marie Pfaff (Belgium)

World Cup in 1990, Italy: Sergio Goycochea (Argentina) and Luis Gabelo Conejo (Costa Rica) 

The goalkeepers are listed in FIFA MasterCard All Star Team:-

World Cup in 1994, United States: Michel Preud’homme (Belgium)

World Cup in 1998, France: Fabien Barthez (France) and Jose Luis Chilavert (Paraguay) 

World Cup in 2002, Korea and Japan: Oliver Kahn (Germany) and Rustu Recber (Turkey) 

World Cup in 2006, Germany: Gianluigi Buffon (Italy), Jens Lehmann (Germany) and  Ricardo (Portugal) 

World Cup in 2010, South Africa: Iker Casillas (Spain) 

World Cup in 2014, Brazil: Manuel Neuer (Germany) 

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