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Barcelona captain Lionel Messi was awarded his sixth Golden Shoe on Wednesday at a ceremony in Barcelona. The said award is given to the player who scores the most league goals across Europe’s top leagues. The Golden Shoe award was created in 1967 when it was won by Eusebio. This happens to be Messi’s third successive Golden Shoe award. Messi scored 36 goals in 34 appearances in the 2018-19 La Liga season. Receiving the award on the 16 th of October was special for Messi and Barcelona as it was the 15-year anniversary of his Barcelona debut. Messi has two more Golden Shoes than Cristiano Ronaldo who last won the award in the 2014-15 football season. Messi received the award from his sons Thiago and Mateo. His wife Antonella Rocuzzo supervised the handing of the award by the couple’s sons. Messi thanked his family and colleagues after receiving the award, saying: "Thank you all for being here to all those present, especially my family. Luis [Suarez] and Jordi [Alba] are...

Barcelona captain Lionel Messi is the first player to win Europe's Golden Shoe award for three straight years after his nearest Golden Shoe contender Kylian Mbappe failed to net four times in Paris Saint Germain's final league match of the season on Friday, against Reims to at least share the award with Messi. Mbappe however added one more goal to his impressive 32 league goals tally during the game, but alas, Messi had 3 more goals than him (36). Mbappe was Paris Saint-Germain's lone score in their 3-1 loss at Stade de Reims.  Messi has now won the Golden Shoe six times throughout his impressive career. Messi now has two more Golden Shoes than his longstanding rival Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo last won the award in the 2014-2015 season alongside Barcelona striker Luis Suarez. Barcelona may not have won the Champions League this season, but they emerge La Liga winners, and won the Supercopa de Espana.

Argentinian football prodigy Lionel Messi claimed his fifth European Golden Shoe on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. The Barcelona captain and forward scored 34 times in La Liga last season - two goals more than Mohamed Salah's record-breaking 32 goal haul in the Premier League.  Messi has now surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo in terms of Golden Shoe wins, as Ronaldo has claimed the prestigious award four times, and Messi, five. At a post-awards gala in Barcelona, Messi said,  “When I started playing, I did not expect all this. My dream was, obviously, to be a professional, but I didn’t imagine so much." “This is thanks to hard work and effort and, above all, my teammates. I have the best players in the world in their positions playing beside me, and that makes everything easier and lets me win these prizes.” 🙌🔊 Leo #Messi 👟 #GoldenShoe pic.twitter.com/65IORUtr4R — FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 18, 2018 Messi was awarded the European Golden Shoe ...