Cristiano Ronaldo may top his glorious season by winning this year’s Golden Shoe race. The trophy, which features legendary winners such as Francesco Totti, Marco Van Basten, Thierry Henry and Diego Forlan, is on most strikers’ wishlist.
With his back-heel goal against Valencia, the Portuguese striker jumped ahead of Luis Suarez with 31 goals. The Uruguayan however, came right back by scoring against Crystal Palace. Messi remains in third with 28 goals keeping Diego Costa's astonishing 27 goals in fourth place.
Ronaldo's back-heel wonder-goal to tie Valencia this weekend
World-champion Francesco Totti celebrating his Golden Shoe award at Stadio Olimpico with his son Cristian
The trophy is calculated by multiplying the number of goals each player scores, times a coefficient assigned to each league in accordance with the UEFA rankings. The harder the league is believed to be, the higher the coefficient, which should level the field amongst leagues of various intensity and difficulty.Right now, most renowned leagues are assigned a coefficient of 2, while leagues such as the Austrian and the Dutch one, are assigned a 1.5 coefficient.
Previous Golden Shoe winner Lionel Messi
The current list of contenders for the 2014 European Golden Shoe award, not reflecting Suarez's latest goal against Crystal Palace
Considering how close the players in the top 3 positions are and the ease with which these superhuman legends score, anything can still happen.
