1.Cristiano Ronaldo 2.Michael Jackson 3.Bill Gate 4.Justin Bieber 5.Obama 6.Steven Job 7.Albert Einstein 8.David Beckham 9.Alex Ferguson 10. Ho Chi Minh It has been Cristiano Ronaldos year, and while a Ballon dOr would be the icing on the cake, he does not need the Fifas top player award to prove it. As Zinedine Zidane in 1998, Luis Figo in 2000 or Fabio Cannavaro in 2006 prove, the Ballon dOr tends to go to a star performer at the heart of an era-defining triumph. It takes a very persuasive candidate to win the award without being part of a team trophy triumph in the corresponding calendar year, but Cristiano Ronaldo has been just that in 2013. The Real Madrid forward, in 2008, was the last man other than Lionel Messi to win the award before the Barcelona stars run of four in a row. He looks set to end the Argentines sequence of victories on Monday night, though, despite the third candidate Franck Riberys titanic year for Bayern Munich. Ronaldos 66 goals in 56 games in 2013 - including all competitions, for club and country - are eye-popping enough, even if plenty will point to the fact that they stand out more for the fact Messi missed most of the final two months of the year through injury. Without a major international championship for European teams, Ronaldo even managed to create his own defining moment of the year, like Zidanes brace in the 1998 World Cup final or even Cannavaros heavy early challenge on Thierry Henry in 2006, epitomising his uncompromising mastery in the tournament. Link: bbc/sport/0/football/25675473
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:53:45 +0000
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