Robert Lewandowski picked up the European Golden Shoe, a trophy for his goal- scoring feats, this week, making him the first player in the history of the game to achieve that.
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The award was presented in Barcelona on Wednesday and the man who received it was present.
After finishing as the leading goal scorer in any top division of a European league, Robert Lewandowski has been awarded a second Golden Shoe. The Golden Shoe is decided using a points system that takes into account the perceived competiveness of the league in question.
The system looks at the total goals scored by a player in one of Europe's top five ranked leagues and converts them into points. Goals scored in leagues further down the table are worth more than those scored in leagues in the top half of the table.
The Golden Shoe list is based on the number of league goals scored by a single player in a single season. He won his first award after scoring 41 goals in the previous season in the German league.
Since the inception of the European Golden Shoe award in 1967, only 12 players have won it more than once, with the most recent winner being Robert Lewandowski. Only two players have ever won the Golden Shoe three times or more in their career, with Messi andRonaldo each winning it 10 times.
While at Manchester United, he won the award for the first and second time. He was the sole winner the following year after scoring 48 goals.
Messi, meanwhile, won his first Golden Shoe in 2009-10, claimed back-to-back awards from 2011-2013 (including 50 goals in one season in 2011), and became the first player ever to win three in a row between 2016 and 2019.
Just the second player in history to rack up a hat trick of Golden Shoe wins is on the verge of doing so. With Erling Haaland already leading the way, it will be difficult for the Barcelona hotshot to complete the three-peat.
The Manchester City forward has scored 18 goals in the Premier League in 2022-23, putting him top of the Golden Shoe chart with a points tally of 36, thus powering a full 10 points ahead of the FC Barcelona forward who has only scored 13 goals for the Catalan club.
Lewy will learn this week if he will be banned for three games for his reaction to being sent off in the Osasuna game.
With one round of games to go before Europe's league break for the World Cup, no one is close to Haaland as they are the only challengers.
Bodo/Glimt's Amahl Pellegrino has 24 goals in 26 league appearances this season and is currently level with Haaland on 36 points. The Eliteserien campaign began in April and ends this weekend, and it is likely that Pellegrino is acting as the leader of the chasers. There is a race going on between Haaland and Lewandowski.
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