The European Golden Shoe 2013 (video)

Philip Hosiner and Arturas Rimkevicius find their names amongst Europe's elite in this season's race for the European Golden Shoe, however unsurprisingly Lionel Messi looks set to retain his title having scored 40 La Liga goals already this season.

Messi has accrued 80 points at latest accounts this season, his 40 goals multiplied by a factor of 2.0 for competing in one of Europe's major leagues. Cristiano Ronaldo occupies second spot with a score of 52 for his 26 goals in La Liga. Ronaldo is the Champions League leading scorer with 8 goals for Real Madrid however only domestic league goals count towards to the Golden Shoe award.

Luis Suarez, Robin Van Persie and Radamel Falcao are all unsurprising names in the top 10 of the leaderboard and they are joined by Porto's Jackson Martinez who has netted 23 goals in the Primeira Liga this term and Wilfried Bony who has scored 24 goals for Vitesse Arnhem in Holland.

23-year-old Philipp Hosiner has scored only 1 domestic goal less than Cristiano Ronaldo this season, however Hosiner's goals are only multiplied by a factor of 1.5 as he plays his football in the Austrian Bundesliga. Hosiner's goalscoring exploits may earn him a transfer to a major European League this summer, and likewise Lithuanian Arturas Rimkevicius who has netted on 35 occasions for FK Siauliai this term and reportedly perked the interest of both Hearts and Swindon Town.

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