{"id":31802,"date":"2017-01-10T04:41:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31802"},"modified":"2017-01-10T04:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:41:44","slug":"ronaldo-wins-fifa-best-player-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31802","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo wins FIFA best player award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-30725\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-real.JPG\" width=\"530\" height=\"335\" alt=\"cristiano ronaldo real\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-real.JPG 530w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-real-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-real-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Zurich: Real Madrid superstar <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/281-cristiano-ronaldo\"><strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong><\/a> won the FIFA Best Male Player Award over his great rival <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/270-lionel-messi\"><strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong><\/a> and Antoine Griezmann for a stellar 2015-16 season, at a glittering ceremony here.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo also won the Ballon d&#8217;Or, given by France Football magazine, in December, with both honours recognition for success in the Champions League with Real and Euro 2016 with Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will never forget 2016,&#8221; Ronaldo said, as quoted by the BBC on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked his team-mates, family and his whole staff. Leicester City coach Claudio Ranieri won FIFA Best Men&#8217;s Coach award. Argentine legend Diego Maradona handed the award to Ranieri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m crazy now,&#8221; said the Leicester coach, as quoted by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you so much for voting me. I&#8217;m 65 now, I start now as a manger!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<a href=\"football-news\/international\/43260-barcelona-goalie-cillessen-back-in-training-after-injury\">&nbsp;Barcelona goalie Cillessen back in training after injury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ex-Germany coach Silvia Neid won the FIFA Best Women&#8217;s Coach award.<\/p>\n<p>Mohd Faiz Subri, forward of club Penang in the 2016 Malaysia Super League won the Fifa Puskas Award for the best goal.<\/p>\n<p>Carli Lloyd, of Houston Dash and the US, a World Cup winner and two-time Olympic winner, was honoured with the Fifa Best Female Player Award.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-30725\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-real.JPG\" width=\"530\" height=\"335\" alt=\"cristiano ronaldo real\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-real.JPG 530w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-real-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-real-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Zurich: Real Madrid superstar <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/281-cristiano-ronaldo\"><strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong><\/a> won the FIFA Best Male Player Award over his great rival <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/270-lionel-messi\"><strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong><\/a> and Antoine Griezmann for a stellar 2015-16 season, at a glittering ceremony here.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo also won the Ballon d&#8217;Or, given by France Football magazine, in December, with both honours recognition for success in the Champions League with Real and Euro 2016 with Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[20301,1938,20342,12975,466,563],"class_list":["post-31802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-antoine-griezmann","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-fifa-best-male-player-award","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-lionel-messi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ronaldo wins FIFA best player award - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31802\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ronaldo wins FIFA best player award - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zurich: Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Best Male Player Award over his great rival Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann for a stellar 2015-16 season, at a glittering ceremony here. 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