Gerd Müller, Ronaldo Nazário, Leo Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. These are some of the footballers who have won the Golden Boot throughout its history, the award that has been awarded since 1968 to the highest scorer in European leagues. The last player to get it is Erling Haaland. However, there is one footballer who is currently leading the race to win the award, Akor Jerome Adams.
The Montpellier striker has 22 goals, if we add all his goals so far this year both with the French team in Ligue 1 and with Lillestrøm in the Eliteserien, the Norwegian league, where he played until August. The 23-year-old Nigerian player accumulated 15 goals in 15 games in the Scandinavian country this year, averaging one goal every 88 minutes. That is, one for each game.
Adams joined Montpellier this summer from Lillestrøm SK for 4.5 million euros. The striker is currently the second top scorer in Ligue 1 with seven goals and is only surpassed by Kylian Mbappé who leads the standings with 13. The Benué striker scored a double at the Stade de la Mosson at the end of October against Toulouse and Now he has gone two days without seeing a door.
Michel der Zakarian's team then lost their next matchday against Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes (3-0) at the beginning of November and drew 0-0 last Friday against Nice, at home, on matchday eleven. of league. Montpellier is twelfth in Ligue 1 with 12 points in 11 games: three wins, four draws and four losses.
Results and a position in the table have not prevented Jerome Adams from being the top contender for the Golden Boot right now. The trophy awarded annually by European Sports Media since 1997, previously by the French sports newspaper, L'Équipe, has a points system that values goals scored, according to the league in which the footballer competes.
For example, scoring in the five major leagues is worth two points: half more than in those that are between the sixth and twenty-first position in the UEFA ranking (1.5) and one more than in the rest of the championships in the world (1). .
As for the Nigerian footballer's biggest rivals, they are Amahl Pellegrino, second with 23 goals for Bodo/Glimt of Norway, while Harry Kane is third with 17 goals for Bayern Munich.
