CRISTIANO RONALDO WAS last night crowned Best Fifa Men’s Player of the Year — beating off competition from Lionel Messi and Neymar.
The international managers and captains of every Fifa member gets to vote for the award, along with one member of the media from each nation.
They are instructed to put down their three top picks, which are then tallied up. The players are not allowed to vote for themselves, but choosing a club or international team-mate is permitted.
Each year, the list makes for interesting reading and the latest results are no exception. While Ireland boss Martin O’Neill, skipper Seamus Coleman and journalist Philip Quinn of the Irish Daily Mail all gave their number one vote to the eventual winner, they differ elsewhere.
Coleman and O’Neill both have Messi second, but the former then chooses Juventus and Argentina forward Paulo Dybala, while the latter opts for Chelsea’s Belgian attacker Eden Hazard.
Quinn, meanwhile, has gone for Bayern Munich and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski as runner-up, and Real Madrid’s Croatian midfielder Luka Modric in third.
Seamus Coleman: 1) Cristiano Ronaldo 2) Lionel Messi 3) Paulo Dybala
Martin O’Neill: 1) Cristiano Ronaldo 2) Lionel Messi 3) Eden Hazard
Philip Quinn: 1) Cristiano Ronaldo 2) Robert Lewandowski 3) Luka Modric
See the full list of votes here
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