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The Golden Boot is awarded to the players
\nwho scored most goals in the European leagues based on a ranking that takes
\ninto account the number of goals scored and the coefficient of their league. When
\nthe award was first established in the 1960s, the only criterium was the number
\nof goals scored. The first ever winner of the Golden Boot, back in 1968, was
\nthe Mozambique-born Portuguese player Eus\u00e9bio, from Benfica, with 43 goals. <\/p>\n
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In 1975 and 1977, the Golden Boot even made it to Romania, thanks to Dudu
\nGeorgescu, the striker of Dinamo Bucharest. Born on 1st September
\n1950, Georgescu made his debut with the Bucharest side Progresul, where he
\nplayed his first Division A matches, aged 18. He later moved to CSM Resita, and
\nthen to Dinamo. In the 1973-1974 season, his first at Dinamo, Georgescu scored
\n21 goals in 33 matches. The following year he scored 33 goals, becoming Europe’s
\ntop goalscorer. Two years later, he scored 47 goals, winning as a result his
\nsecond Golden Boot trophy. <\/p>\n
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It took another ten years for the trophy to return to Romania, thanks to
\nRodion Camataru, again from Dinamo Bucharest. He scored 44 goals that year,
\nwith the runner-up, the Austrian player Toni Polster, scoring only 39. Camataru’s
\ntitle was, however, challenged, being considered an arrangement at the highest
\nlevel. Let us just say that he scored 20 goals in the last six championship
\nlegs. Another Dinamo player, Dorin Mateut, won the Golden Boot trophy in 1989,
\nwith 43 goals, and this time there was no controversy surrounding his
\nachievement. Dinamo was a strong team at the time, with Steaua their only
\nnemesis. It was in fact that same year that Steaua made it to the final of the
\nEuropean Cup.<\/p>\n
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The Golden Boot continued to stir controversy, so L’\u00c9quipe stopped awarding
\nthis trophy between 1991 and 1996. Since 1997, it has been awarded based on a ranking
\nsystem that allows players from top divisions to win even if they score fewer
\ngoals than a player from a weaker league. <\/p>\n
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