John Goodall
Before the official selection of the European Golden Boot, according to statistics, England's Preston center John Goodell was the first person to win the single-season top scorer, although his 21 English League A goals in 1888/89 seemed inconspicuous now, but it made him a permanent history. Since then, with the popularity of football leagues, amazing scoring records have also been born.
John Campbell from Sunderland, England, became the first man to score more than 30 goals in the 1891/92 season, when his goal count was 32. Speaking of the England striker, he is not only the first player to become the top scorer in a single season twice in a row, but also the first player to win this award four times.
Bert Freeman
Breaking 40 goals has since become a target for these shooting fanatics, and in the 1908/09 season Everton's Bert Freeman was infinitely close to this record, but his goal count eventually stopped at 38. The 1910/11 Hungarian striker Imre Schlösser finally broke the limit, and the powerful striker of Ferencvaros not only set a new world goal record with 42 goals, but also broke the 22-year occupation of this statistic by British players. In the following three seasons, the Hungarian striker has been trying to break his own record, but has not succeeded. However, he became the first striker to win the award four times in a row and the first to score 40 goals in three consecutive seasons.
Alchi Stark
Just as fans were anticipating when these shooting maniacs would break 50 goals, Alch Stark from the Bethlehem Iron Team in the United States shocked the world in 1925, taking the record to unattainable heights with 67 goals. Willian Dean from Everton then in 1928/29 became the Thiel's 60-goal scorer, and surprisingly, most of those 60 goals were scored with his head, earning him the nickname "Iron Head". Franz Dick of Sönlau Linsi in Hungary in 1945/46 came close to surprising the world again, but unfortunately his 66 league goals still failed to shake the American record. Another shooting maniac during this period is Joseph Bikan, a strong striker of Czech and Austrian descent who won the world's top scorer five times in the early 1940s, twice with more than 50 goals, and was once considered the most promising person to break the world scoring record.
"Black Panther" Eusebio
In the 1967/68 season, the magazine "French Football" officially launched the European Golden Boot Award, "Black Panther" Eusebio, with 42 goals to become the inaugural Golden Boot winner, and then in the 1976/77 season from Dinamo, Bucharest, Romania, Dudo Georgescu set the record for the award to 47 goals, which has become an insurmountable gap for European goalscorers. At this time, although it was difficult for European goalscorers to make an impact on the record set by Americans, in South America, Argentine Hector Scotta was still trying, but unfortunately in 1975 his goal count was finally stopped at 60 goals, but he was pleased that his record surpassed Pele's 59 goals scored in 1958, thus becoming the player with the most goals in a single season in South America.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of the minor leagues in the 1990s, the European Golden Boot became a pocket for the scorers of these national leagues. The selection of the award was revolutionized, making it more difficult for the small country shooter to win, but this did not affect the desire of these shooting fanatics to score, including Mark Williams from Bangor City in Wales in the 2001/02 season who equalled the Golden Boot scoring record set by Dudo Georgescu with 47 goals, but unfortunately he did not become the world's top scorer of the year, because Joaquín Boteno from the Bolivian League scored 2 more goals than him.
José Cardoso
Since then, world football has once again ushered in a goal frenzy, with Allah Hakobian from Armenia and Estonia's Tarmo Nemelo narrowly shaking the Golden Boot record with 45 and 41 goals respectively. Mexico's Jose Cardoso was voted the world's top scorer in 2003 with 58 goals, which is also the first person after Argentine Sokota to score more than 50 goals in the league, which can be said to make up for more than three decades of shortcomings in world football. The last time he saw a single-season goal score of 50 in the league was achieved by Messi in La Liga in the 2011/12 season, which is a rare blessing for fans in today's commercial football and utilitarian football.