The Three Top Scorers of the English Premier League

Scoring has been interesting in England so far this season. Not the actual goals but the players who've been scoring them. The two top scorers in England play for Leicester. Leicester! And the third top scorer plays for Watford. Watford!

Leicester just got promoted to the EPL last season and Watford are fresh off the Championship. How unusual is this? No, Aguero and Costa didn't transfer to Leceister and Sanchez doesn't play Watford now.

The three top scorers in the Barclays Premier League after Week 11 are: Jamie Vardy (Leceister, 11),  Riyad Mahrez (Leceister, 7) and Odion Ighalo (Watford, 7).

Vardy scored four goals last season. He already doubled his goal tally from last season not even halfway through this season. He scored in 8th straight consecutive EPL games with 10 goals, Chelsea scored 11 goals in their last eight Premier League games. Don't laugh or Mourinho will come for you.

Let's take a look at Vardy's road to making it to the Premier League. Vardy was released by Sheffield Wednesday when he was 16, the next year he joined Stockbridge Park Steels youth academy. He made their senior team at 21 to play in the 8th tier of English soccer-- football, I should say. Three years later, in 2010, he transferred to Halifax Town who play in the 5th tier.

He spent one year at Halifax (29 goals) before transferring to Fleetwood Town at 24 years of age. Fleetwood play in the 3rd tier. After one season at Fleetwood, he was signed by Leicester who were in the second tier then. Leicester got promoted to the Premier League in 2014.

The next season, which is now, Vardy is the top scorer of the EPL. The guy started from the 8th tier at 21! Who else cried reading this?

Vardy's teammate, Mahrez, has somewhat of a similar story. He was in France's second division last year, played for Le Havre. And for Ighalo, he was signed  by Udinese in 2008 but Udinese kept sending him on loan to teams like Granada and Cesena. In 2014, they sent him on loan to Watford. Watford saw something they liked in him and decided to sign him.

Now he's the third top scorer in England and he's even playing for his national team, Nigeria, and scoring of course. Your loss, Udinese.

Morale of this post: never stop dreaming my fellow soccer players.