The
28-year-old Portuguese forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, won the FIFA Ballon d'Or
2013 award which ended Lionel Messi’s four-year winning streak. For the second
time of his career, he has got this prestigious award. Undoubtedly he had close
competition with Argentine forward Lionel Messi and French winger Franck Ribery.
Barcelona
player, Messi, had taken this coveted FIFA Ballon d'Or award three times and Ballon
d'Or in 2009 until it was merged with the FIFA World Player Of The Year award.
Cristiano
Ronaldo got 1365 points. With 1205 points, Messi finished
second to Ronaldo while Ribery became third among the finalists with 1127
points.
Of
209 national teams, 184 national team coaches, 184 national team captains and
173 media representatives voted for the 2013 Ballon d’Or.
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