Native Born Leading Goal Scorers

This table shows the nations that have had a drought of native born goal scoring leaders in their top-level leagues. The players listed must have been "born" in the country of their league to make the list. This means that Polish-born Miroslav Klose in Germany and Jamaican-born Jeff Cunningham in MLS didn't make the list, even though they both lead their leagues in scoring in 2006.

The table shows the last player to lead their home league in scoring.

Player	Club	Nation	Goals	Year
Michael Preetz	Hertha Berlin	Germany	23	1998-99
Kevin Phillips	Sunderland	England	30	1999-00
Diego Tristan	Deportivo La Coruna	Spain	21	2001-02
Djibril Cisse	Auxerre	France	26	2001-02
Naohiro Takahara	Jubilo Iwata	Japan	26	2002
Simão Sabrosa	Benfica	Portugal	18	2002-03
Markus Rosenberg	Hamstads BK	Sweden	14	2004
Taylor Twellman	New England Revolution	USA	17	2005
Steffen Hojer	Viborg FF	Denmark	16	2005-06
Dirk Kuyt	Feyenoord	Netherlands	24	2005-06

Serie A has had an Italian born top scorer since 2003-04, when Andriy Schevchenko led the league. David Trezeguet, Adrian Mutu, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are all close to the top this season though.

German Born Mario Gomez is three goals back of Luca Toni in the Bundesliga, it looks like another year may go by without a German born top scorer.

Jermaine Defoe has 12 goals, Cristiano Ronaldo has 28. I don't think he's going to catch up.

It looks like Lyon's Karim Benzema may end the six year French scoring title drought in Ligue 1, he leads the league with 17 goals currently, two more than trailing Mamadou Niang from Senegal.

Which American born player can take the MLS scoring crown this year?