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STARTING A GOLDEN BOOT COLLECTION In his fifth season at Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo had a breakthrough year. He tallied 31 goals in Premier League competition to lead United to a second consecutive Premier League title. This prolific output represented the highest goal total for any Premier League player in the 2007-2008 campaign, earning Ronaldo the Premier Golden Boot Award as the league’s top scorer. Those 31 goals, however, were not only best in England but were also best across all of the top-division leagues in Europe. This earned Ronaldo another golden boot. The European Golden Boot Award is presented each season to the leading goal scorer in league play across the top flight of all the European leagues. 2008 was the first of four times Ronaldo would win the European Golden Boot. He also claimed it three times while playing at Real Madrid, in 2011, 2014, and 2015. He also won a league scoring title in Serie A with Juventus in 2020-2021, scoring 33 goals, but the European Golden Boot that season went to Robert Lewandowski in the Bundesliga, who scored 40 for Bayern Munich.

Watch all of Ronaldo’s 2007-2008 Premier League goals.

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World Class Footballers: Cristiano Ronaldo