Leo Messi received the fifth Boot of Gold of his sportive career

The past season, Leo Messi achieved to be the maximum goleador of Europe in his respective leagues and this Tuesday has received the Boot of Gold, the award that delivers at the end of every year to certify this individual attainment. In this way, the star of the FC Barcelona already carries a total of five in his sportive career.

The considered by many better player of all time received the award in a celebrated event in L'Antiga Fàbrica of Estrella Damm, accompanied by representatives of the club like Josep Maria Bartomeu, Pep Safe, Eric Abidal, Ramon Plans, Guillermo Love or Jordi Roura, as well as by multiple invited related with the world of the football and the history culé.

It is necessary to remember that the fight for obtaining the Boot of Gold was very equalised during the past campaign. Mohamed Salah, extreme of the Liverpool, made the season of his life annotating 32 goals with the Liverpool, something that allowed him put in check the leadership goleador of Messi and, in some days, even snatch it.

Other players like Harry Kane, of the Tottenham, Robert Lewandowski, of the Bayern of Munich or Ciro Immobile, of the Lazio, kept also in the fight during an important stretch of the season, but waned at the end, without being able to follow the rhythm of Leo Messi or Mohamed Salah. Both kept an intense fight to the end of which the Argentinian went out victorious.

Leo Messi, the collector of Boots of Gold

Leo Messi is the greater possessor of titles of the Boot of Gold of the history with five. The idyll of the Argentinian forward with this award began in the season 2009-10, when it obtained the prize marking 34 goals. The madness arrived in the season 2011-12, when the crack Barcelona beat all the registers and won the Boot of Gold with 50 goals.

The following season also was something out of series for Leo Messi, since it attained to approach a lot to the record of the previous season, winning it with 46 goals in favour. The two last awards of Leo Messi has obtained them the two last seasons. In spite of that now it plays something further back, the Barcelona keeps on being a goleador relentless.