Over the past 20 years, Tom has been conducting events in more than 2,000 locations with a total of 500,000 children participating. To culminate his achievement, Adidas honored Tom with the Golden Boot award, which he accepted in France after the World Cup draw of 1998 for his contribution to youth soccer in Asia. Tom remains the only youth coach to have received this prestigious award. In 2012, the AFF football blog named Tom as one of the top 10 influential foreign footballers in Japan.