Top 5 scorers in Premier league, Spanish La Liga, France Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Scotish SPL and Serie A competition for European golden boot on 29 February 2012

Barclays Premier league, Spanish La Liga, Italy Serie A, Ligue 1, Scottish premier league, German Bundesliga and France Ligue 1 top scorers competition for golden boot on 29 February 2012. Cristiano Ronaldo leads the European league top scorers in both number of goals as well as goals coefficients, followed closely by Messi and Van Persie.

Barclays Premier league top scorers

1	Robin Van Persie	Arsenal FC	23
2	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	17
3	Demba Ba	Newcastle	16
4	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	16
5	*Yakubu Aiyegbeni	Blackburn Rovers	13

*Edin Dzeko (Manchester City) also has 13 goals
Robin Van Persie had one of five goals against Tottenham Spurs in 5-2 Arsenal victory and kept a 5 goals gap with Rooney.

Top assist

David Silva (Manchester City) 12
Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham Hotspur) 11
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) 9
Juan Mata (Chelsea) 9

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Bundesliga top scorers

1	Mario Gomez	Bayern Munich	18
2	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	SC Freiburg	18
3	Robert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	16
4	Lukas Podolski	FC Cologne	15
5	Claudio Pizarro	Werder Bremen	15

Klaas Jan Huntelaar level with Mario Gomez on Bundesliga top scorer and Lewandowski double against Hannover moved him within two goals at the top. 

Top assist

Juan Arango  (Borussia Monchengladbach) 8

Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich) 7
Jakub Blaszczykowski (Borussia Dortmund)7

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France Ligue 1 top scorers 

1	Olivier Giroud	Montpellier	16
2	Anderson Nene	PSG	12
3	Kevin Gameriro	PSG	10
4	Batetimbi Gomis	Lyon	10
5	Pierre Aubameyang	St Etienne	10

Olivier Giroud still leading league one top scorers 4 goals above second placed Nenehan three players with 10 goals in top five list.

Top assist

Mathieu Valbuena (Marseille) 11

Jérémy Menez (Paris Saint-Germain) 10
Eden Hazard   (Lille) 8
Michel Bastos (Lyon) 8
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Spanish La Liga top scorers

1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	29
2	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	28
3	Radamel Falcao	Atlético Madrid	15
4	Gonzalo Higuaín	Real Madrid	14
5	*Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	13

* Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao) 13
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi ll on tight race but Real Madrid maintained a ten points gap with rival Barcelona. Both scored fantastic goals to earn their teams three point in previous games. Ronaldos back-heel goals and Lionel Messi free kick were the difference against Rayo Vallecano and Athletic Bilbao respectively.

Top assist

Ángel Di María (Real Madrid) 13 
Mesut Özil (Real Madrid) 11

Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 8

Daniel Alves (Barcelona) 8
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)7
Carlos Vela (Real Sociedad) 7

Cesc Fábregas (Barcelona)7

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Italy Serie A top scorers

1	Antonio Di Natale	Udinese	18
2	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	AC Milan	15
3	German Denis	Atlanta	15
4	Edinson Cavani	Napoli	15
5	Rodrigo Palacio	Genoa	14

German Denis scored hat-trick in 4-1 Atlanta win over AS Roma and re-enter top five goals scorers table after being push out of top fiver goals scorers table.
     

Top assist

Fabrizio Miccoli  (Palermo) 12
Pablo Armero    (Udinese)  8 
Antonio Cassano (AC Milan) 7
Marek Hamsik    Napoli    7

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Scottish Premier League SPL top scorers

1	Gary Hooper	Celtic	16
2	Jon Daly	Dundee United	14
3	Nikica Jelavic	Rangers	14
4	Francisco Sandaza	St Johnstone	11
5	Michael Higdon	Hibernian	11

Nikica Jelavic still in top five despite January transfer to Everton but already topped by Gary Hooper and Jon Daly.

Top assist
Steven Davis (Rangers) 10
Anthony Stokes (Celtic) 9
Nicky Law (Motherwell) 8
Jonathan Hayes (Inverness Caledonian Thistle) 8
Paul Dixon (Dundee United) 8

African Nations Cup 2012: Zambia clinched the cup after prominent Ivory coast star Didier Drogba, Kolo Touré and Yao Kouassi Gervinho miss penalty kicks.

African cup of Nations 2012 came to an end with Zambia beating highly rated Ivory Coast on penalty shoot-out after 0-0 score in extra time. Zambia won the crown as consolation of county lost 19 years ago when 18 member of the squad died in Libreville after plane crash. Ivory coast playing their 19th Africa Cup of Nations finals while Zambia 15th, but both team were play the final for only third time. Ivory Coast won the cup in 1992 and Zambia was looking for their first cup having finished second place on 1974 and 1994. This year’s final brought 18th (1st) and 71st (16th) teams in FIFA ranking in world and CAF in bracket respectively.

Ivory Coast earned a penalty on regulation time after a penalty box foul on Gervinho, but Didier Drogba took the penalty and sent the high above the bar and put his team on penalty shoot-out risk. Both team start well in penalty shoot-out, Ivory Coast taking the first penalty leaving Zambia with tough task of coming from behind and level the score. The shootout went correctly for the penalty kickers but not for the goalkeepers, until it was 7-7 each. Then came the two consecutive miss for Ivory Coast by Kolo Touré and Yao Kouassi Gervinho sandwiching Zambia miss by Rainford Kalaba. 22 years old Stophira Sunzu took the next penalty for Zambia and converted to make the score 8-7 and won the African Cup of Nations for his country.
Chipolopolo coach Herve Renard was confident winning the tie and confidence translated to his players who faced highly rated players in the world at every position. Zambia became only the second team in The Southern part of Africa to lift the cup after South Africa

Africa Cup of Nations 2012 Top scorers

Christopher Katongo Zambia 3

Emmanuel Mayuka Zambia 3

Didier Drogba Cote d'Ivoire 3

Cheick Diabate Mali 3

Manucho Angola 3

Houssine Kharja Morocco 3

Pierre Aubameyang Gabon 3

African Cup of Nations Zambia vs Ivory Coast video highlights

Top 5 scorers in Premier league, Spanish La Liga, France Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Scotish SPL and Serie A competition for European golden boot on 08 January 2012

Barclays Premier league, Spanish La Liga, Italy Serie A, Ligue 1, Scottish premier league, German Bundesliga and France Ligue 1 top scorers competition for golden boot on 11 February 2012. Cristiano Ronaldo leads the European league top scorers in both number of goals as well as goals coefficients, followed closely by Messi and Van Persie.

Barclays Premier league top scorers

1	Robin Van Persie	Arsenal FC	22
2	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	17
3	Demba Ba	Newcastle	15
4	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	15
5	*Yakubu Aiyegbeni	Blackburn Rovers	13

Robin Van Persie keep on scoring and with hat-trick against Bolton he has opened a five goals gap with second EPL top scorer in the list. Wayne Rooney double against Liverpool fired him to seconf place. Demba Ba might have been close if had played as many games as Van Persie. The striker left for African Cup of Nation were he failed to reproduce the club goal scoring but soon after return he get back on score sheet with new partner Papiss Demba Cisse from SC Freiburg who scored 9 goals in Bundesliga.

Top assist

David Silva (Manchester City) 12
Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham Hotspur) 10
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) 9
Ryan Giggs (Manchester United) 8
Juan Mata (Chelsea) 8

Robin Van Persie (Arsenal) 7

Samir Nasri (Manchester City) 7
Theo Walcott (Arsenal) 7
 Nani  (Manchester United) 7
 Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) 7
 Stephane Sessegnon  (Sunderland) 7 
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Bundesliga top scorers

1	Mario Gomez	Bayern Munich	18
2	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	SC Freiburg	16
3	Claudio Pizarro	Werder Bremen	15
4	Lukas Podolski	FC Cologne	15
5	Robert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	14

Gomez didn't score last round but stays at the top of list with pressure still mounts from other bundesliga top scorer award challengers. Claudio Pizarro score a brace for Werder Bremen in a 2-2 draw with SC Freiburg. 

Top assist

Juan Arango  (Borussia Monchengladbach) 8

Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich) 7

Claudio Pizarro (Werder Bremen) 6
Raffael (Hertha Berlin) 6
Gokhan Tore (Hamburg SV) 6 
Kevin Großkreutz  (Borussia Dortmund) 6
Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund) 6
Toni Kroos (Bayern Munich)6
Patrick Herrmann (Borussia Monchengladbach) 6

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France Ligue 1 top scorers 

1	Olivier Giroud	Montpellier	16
2	Anderson Nene	PSG	11
3	Kevin Gameriro	PSG	10
4	Batetimbi Gomis	Lyon	9
5	Loïc Remy	Marseille	9

Olivier Giroud hang on the top with 4 goals advantage, Anderson Luiz de Carvalho Nene has rapidly moved to second position, he score a double in PSG 3-1 win over Evian Thonon Gaillard.

Top assist

Mathieu Valbuena (Marseille) 11

Jérémy Menez (Paris Saint-Germain) 8
Eden Hazard   (Lille) 7
Cedric Barbosa (Evian Thonon Gaillard) 6
Michel Bastos (Lyon) 6
Yann Jouffre (Lorient) 6
Dennis Oliech (AJ Auxerre) 5
Olivier Giroud (Montpellier) 5 
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Spanish La Liga top scorers

1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	24
2	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	23
3	Gonzalo Higuaín	Real Madrid	14
4	Radamel Falcao	Atlético Madrid	12
5	*Roberto Soldado	Valencia	12

* Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao) 12
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are on tight tough competition for the pichichi as well as European golden boot awards, and recently Van Persie has joined this fight. To see a fair fight to the end, football fans should play that none of the top scorers get injured. Ronaldo and Messi competition is also reflected on goal assists in La Liga of which all six top assist are between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Top assist

Ángel Di María (Real Madrid) 13 
Mesut Özil (Real Madrid) 11

Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 8

Daniel Alves (Barcelona) 8
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 6
Xavi (Barcelona) 6
Cesc Fábregas (Barcelona) 6 
Raúl García (Osasuna) 6
Susaeta (Athletic Bilbao) 6 

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Italy Serie A top scorers

1	Antonio Di Natale	Udinese	17
2	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	AC Milan	15
3	German Denis	Atlanta	12
4	Edinson Cavani	Napoli	12
5	Miroslav Klose	Lazio	12

*Diego Milito (Internazionale) 12

*Stevan Jovetic (Fiorentina) 12

*Rodrigo Palacio (Genoa) 12
Di Natale and Ibrahimovic at the topseparated from followers by 4 and 3 goals respectively by six followers players each with 12 goals. German Denis has lead the Serie A top scorers for long time before he surrender.      

Top assist

Fabrizio Miccoli  (Palermo) 9
Pablo Armero    (Udinese)  8 
Antonio Cassano (AC Milan) 7
Alberto Aquilani  (AC Milan) 6
Miralem Pjanic (AS Roma) 6
Djibril Cissé  (Lazio) 6 

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Scottish Premier League SPL top scorers

1	Nikica Jelavic	Rangers	14
2	Gary Hooper	Celtic	13
3	Jon Daly	Dundee United	11
4	Francisco Sandaza	St Johnstone	11
5	Garry O'Connor	Hibernian	10

Nikica Jelavic goal scoring ability earned him a transfer to Everton and looking to adapt and start reproducing goals though not in a rate seen at Scotish Premier League.

Top assist
Steven Davis (Rangers) 10
Anthony Stokes (Celtic) 8
Nicky Law (Motherwell) 8