Best Fifa Awards 2017: Cristiano Ronaldo wins men's player of year – as it happened

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPdlMZK9BwwxL_9L1pNRlqiYxQvKdvGfptpMi2-WX554PZb4gGQWRx4AAPZVFeNTpyuCse-K3UzW7MU82nEPgYRGL4gOoWeO6G89m4YT7BUtJDuf8gOFjv5B9G4glTAhqPGfwLZ-CogaS/s1600/ronaldo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPdlMZK9BwwxL_9L1pNRlqiYxQvKdvGfptpMi2-WX554PZb4gGQWRx4AAPZVFeNTpyuCse-K3UzW7MU82nEPgYRGL4gOoWeO6G89m4YT7BUtJDuf8gOFjv5B9G4glTAhqPGfwLZ-CogaS/s400/ronaldo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cristiano Ronaldo and Lieke Martens were named Fifa men's and ladies' player of the year individually at the overseeing body's yearly 'The Best' football grants, which occurred in London on Monday night. </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Real Madrid forward held the title he won in 2016 – again completing in front of Lionel Messi in a vote between national cooperative people, mentors, media and fans – implying that he has now been named Fifa's best male footballer five times. He took 43.16% of the aggregate vote, mirroring a year in which he won a Champions League and La Liga twofold with Real Madrid, proceeding to put top-class rivals to the sword with shocking consistency. His two objectives against Juventus in Cardiff helped Real accomplish mainland matchless quality for the twelfth time and he had just scored a cap trap against Atlético Madrid in the semi-finals. </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best Fifa Awards 2017: Cristiano Ronaldo wins men's player of year – as it happened </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asked to what extent he could keep up this level of shape, Ronaldo stated: "I don't have the foggiest idea, I simply appreciate the occasion, the minute is extraordinary. I feel cheerful, I'm 32 and have won best player on the planet and I'm so happy. I don't have a clue about what will occur in the following year. I simply endeavor to concentrate on the occasion." </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ronaldo recognized the opposition gave by Messi and Neymar, who completed third in the men's rankings, despite the fact that the distributed voting comes about uncovered that neither he nor Messi had considered each other the best player of the previous year. </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martens, who scored three objectives in Holland's triumphant Euro 2017 crusade and won the competition's brilliant ball grant, was not able go to because of Tuesday's World Cup qualifier against Norway however got her trophy from Marco van Basten while getting ready with the national group. The ladies' honor was joined by some contention, the incorporation of the little-known Venezuelan forward Deyna Castellanos causing the USA midfielder Meghan Rapinoe to reprimand the shortlisting procedure. Rapinoe said it proposed "that Fifa doesn't generally mind" and the 18-year-old Castellanos, who completed third in the last vote behind Martens and Carli Lloyd, conceded the remarks had frustrated her. </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brilliant Boy 2017: Kylian Mbappé beats Dembélé and Rashford to grant </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It was not decent but rather I'm fine with that," she said. "Everybody has their sentiment. On the off chance that she feels that at that point I'm so appreciative to Fifa in light of the fact that they're searching for youthful ability. I'm so upbeat to be here and she's one of my good examples." </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>

Best Fifa Awards 2017: Cristiano Ronaldo wins men's player of year – as it happened

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lieke Martens were named Fifa men's and ladies' player of the year individually at the overseeing body...

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