The boot with which Mario Gotze struck the World Cup-winning goal this year has raised €2 million ($4.4 million) for the German charity event A Heart for Children, the organisers revealed on Saturday.

The 22-year-old Bayern Munich star donated to the charity the left boot with which he scored the only goal, in extra-time, against Argentina and sealed Germany's fourth World Cup title in Brazil.

A single, unidentified donation has claimed the boot with all of the seven-digit sum going to the German charity, which helps disadvantaged children.

"That is overwhelming, I would have never dreamed of such a figure," Gotze told German daily Bild.

"Two million is such a huge sum, the good thing is that it's for a good cause and not just for a boot."

AFP