Top Contenders for European Golden Shoe: March 2019

#1 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

Lionel Messi is on course for a record-breaking sixth Golden Shoe award

League - Spanish La Liga (x2)

25 GOALS (50 POINTS)

Icon, legend, Messiah, great, GOAT - these are some of the adjectives used to describe Lionel Messi and there is the feeling that any word used to quantify the mercurial Argentine must have a cliche feel to them, as the dictionary must have run out of words to quantify his extreme abilities.

Messi is unarguably one of the best players in history, but what makes him special is not just his goalscoring abilities as he also possesses a high level of creativity, in addition to excellent technique and vision.

Alongside Ronaldo, Messi has totally revolutionalised the way we see the game of football, setting the bar so high that it is hard to imagine a world of football without the iconic duo.

This season has seen Messi continue in his extraordinary performance and the month of February saw him score six goals in just four matches including a hat-trick against Sevilla to take his total tally to 25 league goals for the season, while also registering 11 assists (both of which are the highest in Europe).

With five European Golden Shoes won, Lionel Messi is the most prolific goalscorer in the history of the European game and with 25 goals, the 31-year-old currently leads the way in what is looking likely to be a sixth overall and third consecutive European Golden Shoe.