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The European Golden Shoe, also known as European Golden Boot, is an award that is presented each season to the leading goalscorer in league matches from the top division of a European national league. The trophy is a sculpture of a football boot. From its inception in the 1967–68 season, the award, originally called Soulier d'Or, which ...
Henry maintained his reputation as one of Europe's most feared strikers as he led the league in scoring, [2] and with 31 goals in all competitions, [33] he was the co-recipient (with Diego Forlán) of the European Golden Boot, becoming the first player to officially win the award twice in a row (Ally McCoist had won two Golden Boots in a row ...
Those goals won him the European Golden Boot – the first time a Scot had won the award – ensuring his position with two long-range strikes in the final fixture of the season away to Aberdeen, [24] a match he later admitted he had barely been in a condition to play, having spent the previous night drinking with students in the team hotel. [25]
Eusébio. Eusébio da Silva Ferreira GCIH GCM (European Portuguese: [ewˈzɛβju ðɐ ˈsilvɐ fɨˈʁɐjɾɐ]; 25 January 1942 – 5 January 2014), nicknamed the " Black Panther ", [3] the " Black Pearl " [4] or " O Rei " ("The King"), [5][6] was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker. He is considered one of the greatest players of ...
Fernando Mendes Soares Gomes (22 November 1956 – 26 November 2022) was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a striker. He achieved great success with Porto, during the late 1970s and 1980s. In the Primeira Liga he represented Sporting CP as well, and also spent two years in Spain with Sporting de Gijón.
Diego Forlán Corazo (born 19 May 1979) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player, football manager and former football player who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the best forwards of his generation, Forlán is a two-time winner of both the Pichichi Trophy and the European Golden Shoe at club level. With the Uruguay national team, he ...
Kevin Mark Phillips (born 25 July 1973) is an English former professional footballer who is currently the head coach of National League club AFC Fylde. A striker, Phillips started his career with Southampton but failed to make the first team and was released. He then signed for non-League side Baldock Town where he impressed, earning a move to ...
Between the years 1960 and 2008, and since 2024, the Golden Boot has been awarded to the top goalscorer(s) of each edition of the UEFA European Championship. [ 16 ] From 2012 to 2020, the number of assists contributed by players was used as a tie-breaker if more than one player scored the same number of goals, with fewest minutes played used as ...