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Messi Wins Fifth World Player Of The Year by d1ckr0man(m): 8:03am On Jan 12, 2016 |
Barcelona forward Lionel Messi on Monday
won the Ballon d’Or award for the world’s best
player for the fifth time.
The 28-year-old Argentine had 41.33 per cent
of the vote, with Real Madrid forward Cristiano
Ronaldo (27.76 per cent) second and Barca’s
Neymar (7.86 per cent) third.
Either Messi or Ronaldo, who became a three-
time winner last year, have won the past eight
awards.
United States midfielder Carli Lloyd, who
scored a hat-trick in the 2015 Women’s World
Cup final, won the women’s award.
Lionel Messi extended his record haul of World
Player of the Year awards with his fifth after
winning the treble — La Liga, the Copa del Rey
and the Champions League — with Barcelona
in 2014-15.
Ronaldo, 30, had scored 57 goals in as many
games — including a record 16 Champions
League goals — in 2015, but that was not
enough to win him Ballon d’Or number four.
Barcelona striker Neymar, 23, was the first
Brazilian to finish in the top three since Kaka
won the 2007 award. He scored 45 goals in 62
games and is joint top scorer in this season’s
La Liga with 15, level with teammate Luis
Suarez.
“It’s a very special moment for me to be back
here on this stage, winning again another
Ballon d’Or after seeing Cristiano win it,” Messi
said.
“It’s incredible that it’s my fifth. Much more
than anything I would have dreamt of as a
kid.”
USA’s World Cup-winning midfielder Carli
Lloyd, 33, won the women’s world player of
the year award after scoring a hat-trick in the
final against Japan, including a sensational
strike from the halfway line. She earned the
Golden Ball for best player in the tournament.
Lloyd said, “It has been a dream ever since I
started with the national team. Keep your
dreams and just go after them.”
Real Madrid had as many players as Barcelona,
four, in the World Team of the Year despite
not winning a trophy.
Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was German
champions Bayern Munich’s only
representative. The Premier League was the
only of Europe’s top five leagues to not have
anyone in the team. |
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