With each semifinals settled and Spain i’m ready to stand England within the ultimate, the Blonde Boot race on the 2023 Girls’s International Cup is drawing to a conclusion with simply two video games residue.

Later the crowd degree produced an notable 126 aims (with handiest two international locations failing to search out the web), the knockout section added 35 extra aims to that tally.

That takes the working overall for the match to 161 aims scored in 62 suits, a median of two.59 according to recreation.

In spite of Japan’s quarterfinal walk by the hands of Sweden, Hinata Miyazawa extra the lead scorer nearest the 23-year-old attacking midfielder left the match with 5 aims.

Then again, with each the third-place playoff and the overall left to be performed this weekend, there are nonetheless a number of energetic gamers from the 4 groups concerned who all rise a probability of overtaking Miyazawa.

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How Blonde Boot award is determined

As all the time, the Blonde Boot award might be bestowed upon the person participant who rankings probably the most aims on the 2023 Girls’s International Cup. Must more than one gamers end degree on the lead of the standings, the award might be determined the use of tiebreakers.

Must two or extra gamers end with the similar choice of aims, the Blonde Boot will journey to the participant with probably the most assists. If that also isn’t plenty to independent them, the award will journey to the participant with the bottom overall mins at the sound (ergo, the perfect goals-per-minute fee).

Any aims scored in penalty shootouts won’t rely towards the overall.

The 2023 Blonde Boot contenders

Later opening the scoring for Sweden of their quarterfinal win over Japan, defender Amanda Ilestedt drew inside one purpose of Miyazawa, courtesy of her workforce’s set-piece prowess. 3 alternative gamers — Kadidiatou Diani of France, Alexandra Popp of Germany and Jill Roord of Netherlands — even have 4 aims, even if handiest Ilestedt extra energetic on the International Cup.

Sweden have been crushed 2-1 by way of Spain of their semifinal, however Ilestedt nonetheless has a probability to usurp Miyazawa within the Blonde Boot race when her nation competition the third-place playoff towards co-hosts Australia on Saturday in Brisbane, the past earlier than the overall in Sydney.

Simply at the back of the Blonde Boot front-runners are 11 gamers who’ve 3 aims, with 8 of them nonetheless energetic on the match.

Later each scored in England’s 3-1 semifinal victory over Australia, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo fasten fellow Lioness Lauren James with 3 aims, with the endmost i’m ready to go back from suspense in day to participate within the ultimate. Must the Blonde Boot race require a tiebreaker, it’s usefulness noting that James could also be connect for probably the most assists with 3 and is the one residue energetic participant with that many.

In the meantime, fellow finalists Spain even have 3 gamers with 3 aims in Aitana Bonmatí, Jennifer Hermoso and Alba Redondo. Rebecka Blomqvist of Sweden and Hayley Raso of Australia even have 3 aims apiece and might be hoping so as to add to their hauls when the 2 international locations come head to head Saturday.

Additionally on 3 aims are Brazil’s Ary Borges and Norway’s Sophie Román Haug — who each scored hat methods within the workforce degree — and France’s Eugénie Le Sommer, however the ones 3 have all been eradicated from the contest.

Girls’s International Cup Blonde Boot historical past

The Blonde Boot used to be first awarded on the inaugural 1991 Girls’s International Cup in China, the place USWNT ahead Michelle Akers scored 10 aims to rush the plaudits with an notable tally that hasn’t ever been bettered at a Girls’s International Cup.

Megan Rapinoe of the US is the reigning Girls’s International Cup Blonde Boot winner nearest scoring six aims because the USWNT emerged triumphant on the 2019 match in France. Her teammate Alex Morgan additionally scored six aims on the 2019 International Cup and likewise equalled Rapinoe’s lend a hand rely of 3, so Rapinoe used to be in the end awarded the Blonde Boot as a result of she had spent much less day at the sound (428 mins, to Morgan’s 490).

Rapinoe claiming the award additionally intended that the U.S. joined Brazil and Germany as the one international locations to have had their gamers win Blonde Boots at two other Girls’s International Cups.

The one day the award has been shared used to be in 1999, when Brazil’s Sissi and China’s Solar Wen each scored seven instances. Solar’s aims powered China to the overall, and he or she scored within the penalty shootout nearest that fit ended 0-0, however the host United States emerged victorious.

Girls’s International Cup participant trophies

The 2023 Girls’s International Cup Blonde Boot trophy itself is a realistic forged of a soccer boot in silver steel with a slim yellowish coating, affixed to a strong frosted glass bottom. There also are silver and bronze variations given to the second- and third-highest-scoring gamers on the match, respectively.

In addition to the Blonde Boot, plenty of alternative particular person awards might be passed out on the conclusion of the International Cup.

The Blonde Ball is awarded to the most efficient total participant of the match, as determined by way of media representatives deciding on from a shortlist drawn up by way of the FIFA technical committee, in addition to the Silver and Bronze Ball for the second- and third-best gamers on display.

Rapinoe additionally took this prize house in 2019, with teammate Rose Lavelle coming 0.33 within the vote at the back of England’s Lucy Bronze. Unsurprisingly, Rapinoe ended the yr by way of successful the Ballon d’Or, too.

The Blonde Glove award could also be awarded to the most efficient total goalkeeper on the match, and is determined by way of FIFA’s Technical Find out about Team. Through successful this prize at each the 2011 and 2015 tournaments, former U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo is the one participant to win two times in anyone award section at a Girls’s International Cup.