BALLON DOR 2014/2015 AT A GLANCE. Real Madrid Super Star,Cristiano Ronaldo has won FIFAs Ballon dOr award 2014/2015 for the third time - beating Lionel Messi and Manuel Neuer. It is the third time Ronaldo has been crowned the top player after winning the award last year and for his 2002 campaign. The three awards match France’s Zinedine Zidane and Brazil’s Ronaldo for second most since the player of the year award was first presented in 1991. Messi holds the record with four trophies after being crowned the best player on the planet each year from 2009-2012. Messi and Ronaldo have cornered the market for the award with the last seven trophies going to the Spanish League stars. The duo has been in an epic duel for supremacy within La Liga, Champions League, highest salary and for the crown of best player in the world’s most popular start. For now, the hat rests squarely on Ronaldo’s head. Ronaldo was widely expected to take home the 2014 Ballon D’Or after leading Real Madrid to its tenth Champions League title and scoring a record 17 goals during Champions League play. He also finished as the top scorer in La Liga with 31 goals in 30 games last season. Ronaldo is off to another incredible start to this season with 26 goals in 16 La Liga games. Ronaldo ranked second last year in Forbes’ look at the world’s highest-paid athletes with earnings of $80 million, only boxer Floyd Mayweather earned more. Ronaldo inked a five-year contract extension in September 2013 with Real Madrid worth more than $200 million, plus bonuses. Ronaldo has supplanted David Beckham as soccer’s most commercially viable star. He earned at estimated $28 million off the pitch between June 2013 and June 2014 thanks for a bey of big-name sponsors like Nike, Tag Heuer, Samsung Electronics , Emirates and Toyota Motor . Another Real Madrid Player, Hames Rodriguez won the FIFA best Goal of the year Award while Germanys National Team Coach, Joachim Low won the best coach of the year award. The remaining Top 10 of the awards voting comprised of 3 Bayern Munich players (Arjen Robben, Thomas Mueller and Philipp Lahm) while the rest were current or former Real Madrid players (James Rodriguez, Toni Kroos and Angel Di Maria) while Neymar finished in the middle of them all in 7th place. The FIFA Ballon d’Or was presented for the fifth time since the merging of the FIFA World Player of the Year award and France Football’s Ballon d’Or award in 2010. · 181 national team coaches, 182 national team captains, and 181 media representatives submitted their votes for the FIFA Ballon d’Or award. Cristiano Ronaldo won the title with 37.66% of all votes ahead of Lionel Messi (15.76%) and Manuel Neuer (15.72%). · 148 national team coaches, 146 national team captains, and 90 media representatives voted for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award. Nadine Kessler came out on top with 17.52% of all votes, ahead of Brazil’s Marta (14.16%) and the USA’s Abby Wambach (13.33%). · 181 national team coaches, 182 national team captains, and 181 media representatives voted for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football award. Joachim Low won the award with 36.23% of all votes after leading Germany to glory at the World Cup in Brazil. Second and third place were claimed by Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid, 22.06%) and Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid, 19.02%), respectively. · 147 national team coaches, 145 national team captains, and 90 media representatives voted for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football award. Ralf Kellermann, who guided Wolfsburg to a successful defence of their UEFA Women’s Champions League title last season, won the award after securing 17.06% of all votes, ahead of Maren Meinert (coach of the Germany U-19 and U-20 women’s national teams, 13.16%) and Japan coach Norio Sasaki (13.06%). 1 Cristiano Ronaldo – Portugal – 37.66% 2 Lionel Messi – Argentina – 15.76% 3 Manuel Neuer – Germany – 15.72% 4 Arjen Robben – The Netherlands – 7.17% 5 Thomas Mueller – Germany – 5.42% 6 Philipp Lahm – Germany – 2.90% 7 Neymar – Brazil – 2.21% 8 James Rodriguez – Colombia – 1.47% 9 Toni Kroos – Germany – 1.43% 10 Angel Di Maria – Argentina – 1.29% 11 Diego Costa – Spain – 1.02% 12 Gareth Bale – Wales – 1.00% 13 Zlatan Ibrahimovic – Sweden – 1.00% 14 Yaya Toure – Côte d’Ivoire – 0.86% 15 Mario Goetze – Germany – 0.84% 16 Karim Benzema – France – 0.75% 17 Andres Iniesta – Spain – 0.67% 18 Bastian Schweinsteiger – Germany – 0.57% 19 Javier Mascherano – Argentina – 0.55% 20 Thibaut Courtois – Belgium – 0.51% 21 Eden Hazard – Belgium – 0.47% 22 Paul Pogba – France – 0.40% 23 Sergio Ramos – Spain – 0.33%
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