Leo Messi continues to enlarge his legend. The Argentine crack of Barça showed again last season that, at least for now, is still far from sunset. Now, he has already collected his third consecutive Golden Boot - from Juan Ignacio Gallardo, director of MARCA -, the sixth of his entire sports career. Only the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, right now two trophies away, seems capable of following in his wake.

Messi attended the event accompanied by his wife, Antonella, and their two oldest children, Thiago and Mateo. Nor did they want to miss two good friends, Luis Suarez and Jordi Alba . On behalf of Barça, he was also accompanied by the president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, and the technical secretary, Eric Abidal.

At the gala, Messi, to questions recorded on video of several children, confessed to being nothing tricky at home, that he has such a heavy dream that he does not wake up "nor a truck" and that he usually has to play the role of bad with his sons. "I am very above, but many times they deserve it," said the Argentine.

At the sporting level, the Barca captain stressed, once again, that the League is always the most important, despite the fact that the Champions League remains tremendously desired. " The Champions League is special , we want to win it as the most, but the League is the most important. We are going to fight for the League, but without forgetting the Champions League and the Cup. We are Barça and we will fight for everything," he said.

Again, Messi wanted to have words of thanks to both Jordi Alba and Luis Suárez, present at the gala, and to all who have shared costumes with him at Barça when fighting for the Golden Boot. " Without them two I wouldn't be here today , but without my team or my teammates I wouldn't have won one, "he said.

36 goals

Winning more than one Golden Boot is not an easy mission. Absolutely. This is demonstrated by the fact that only nine more players, in addition to Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, have been able to achieve it throughout the 52-year history of the trophy. And none, of course, has done more than twice. That honor is reserved only for players of another level, such as Argentina and Portuguese. And of them, only one is still active: the Uruguayan Luis Suárez . With him, precisely, he shared the Portuguese honors in the 2013-14 campaign.

Getting up with his sixth Golden Boot was no easy task for Messi. In this case, he had to compete side by side with Frenchman Kylian Mbappé , of the PSG. The Argentine added 36 points, while the Frenchman, one of Real Madrid's big dreams, scored 33. The Italian Fabio Quagliarella, from Sampdoria, on the other hand, became the third classified thanks to the 26 goals he managed to score in Series A throughout last season. According to the current criteria, the many scored in the five leagues with the best ranking, in the case of last season the Spanish, English, Italian, German and French, multiply their value by two. The leagues located between the sixth and twenty-first place, meanwhile, multiply the value of the goals scored by 1.5. And in the rest, finally, this adjustment does not occur.

Barça, thanks to the trophies won by Messi and Luis Suárez, to which we must add the one achieved by the Brazilian Ronaldo in his only campaign as a Barcelona player, 1996-97, is the only European club that has three winners of the Golden boot to his credit. Among the three add eight. On the Madrid side, meanwhile, Hugo Sánchez adds to the three achieved by Cristiano Ronaldo which he got in the 1989-90 season, along with a Hristo Stoichkov who then played for the CSKA in Sofia, so that the white club treasures four in his account .

In addition to Barça and Real Madrid, three more Spanish clubs have managed to register their name in the history of the Golden Boot. Diego Forlán won it in the 2008-09 campaign for Atlético de Madrid after sharing honors with Thierry Henry in 2004- 05 when he defended the colors of Villarreal, while Dutchman Roy Makaay, on the other hand, got it in 2002-03 as a footballer of Deportivo de la Coruña.

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