Who Will be This Year’s Golden Boot?
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Ladies football, Puma and the Sunday Independent have come together to launch the new and improved Golden Boot Competition for this season’s Senior Championship. The new deal means each week the Sunday Indo will publish details on the vital statistics of the week’s Golden Boot - how often she scored, who with and so on. Sounds deadly altogether.
There will be eight weekly winners announced in the Sunday Independent during the Championship. Each weekly winner will receive a pair of Puma’s new King boots, relaunched and restyled to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Puma King.
The biggest Boot for the season will be announced on 12 October along with the players in second and third place. Each will receive a specially commissioned Golden Boot trophy at a ceremony in GAA Headquarters and a load of Puma sportswear.
Geraldine Giles, Uactaran Peil Gael na mBan, said, “The Golden Boot Award proved extremely popular in 2007 and this year we are delighted to welcome the support of the Sunday Independent and Puma. It is a great thing to be able to recognise outstanding individual performances and this award has become a much coveted prize in a short space of time.”
In 2007, 158 players registered scores in the Senior Championship, from the group stages to the final, but this year every score recorded in the Championship counts towards the player’s overall Championship tally in 2008. This includes Provincial Championship games and Championship qualifiers.
Last year, Mayo’s Cora Staunton won the inaugural Ladies Football Golden Boot Award with an impressive tally of 58 points (4-46). Cork’s Valerie Mulcahy came second with 40 points (9-13) and Tyrone’s Gemma Begley was third on 38 points (7-17). An updated top ten scorers table will be printed in the Sunday Independent each Sunday from 27th July and a full list of Championship scorers will be available online at www.ladiesgaelic.ie.