Cristiano Ronaldo Wins FIFA’s The Best Player Award

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has said that he has “no doubts” that he is among the greatest players to have ever played the game.

USA’s Carli Lloyd won The Best FIFA Women’s Player of the Year.

“It was important to begin the year like this”, Zidane said.

Marca also claim that the Barcelona maestro personally phoned Madrid’s players to apologise for not attending the ceremony.

The debate will rage on, and we can go on comparing goal records and trophies. His club, FC Barcelona though managed to win the Spanish league honour, the La Liga.

Portugal captain Ronaldo opted for Gareth Bale, Luka Modric and Sergio Ramos.

Ronaldo is in the three-player shortlist along with Barcelona and Argentina ace Messi and Frenchman Antoine Griezman of Atletico Madrid, according to DPA.

When the Federation Internationale de Football Association 17 ratings were revealed, many gamers were shocked that Messi was some way off the top-rated Cristiano Ronaldo.

Ronaldo also won the old FIFA award once in 2008 and also in 2013 and 2014 when it was organised jointly with France Football magazine.

Leicester City’s Claudio Ranieri received the best men’s coach award following his side’s fairytale Premier League triumph.

In case you want to know, the voting for the player and manager awards came from a mixture of national team captains and coaches, journalists and an online poll of fans.

Each counted for 25% of the points. Greizmann lead his team Atletico and France to the finals of the UEFA champions league and European championship respectively.

Michel Salgado, meanwhile, echoed the sentiments of his former team-mate, saying: “Real Madrid are now the best team in the world so maybe this has affected the decision of the Barcelona players”.

Goals Ronaldo scored in 2016 (42 for Real Madrid and 13 for Portugal). He also netted in the 2-0 semifinal win against Wales. Neid beat two previous winners: Pia Sundhage of Sweden, the Olympic silver medallist, and last year’s victor, Jill Ellis of the United States.The Puskas Award for best goal was won by Mohd Faiz Subri, who scored with a wildly swerving long-range free kick for Malaysian club Penang.