{"id":26258,"date":"2016-12-13T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=26258"},"modified":"2016-12-13T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:06:33","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-wins-his-fourth-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/cristiano-ronaldo-wins-his-fourth-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo wins his fourth Ballon d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has beaten off competition from the likes of Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann to claim his fourth Ballon d&#8217;Or.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific Portuguese, who previously lifted the prestigious prize in 2008, 2013 and 2014, has enjoyed arguably the most successful year of his illustrious career, winning the Champions League with Real Madrid before captaining his country to European Championship glory in France.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old is now one behind Barcelona&#8217;s Messi, who took the honour for a fifth time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid&#8217;s French forward Antoine Griezmann finished third in the vote.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sp-story-body__cross-head\">Ronaldo&#8217;s 2016 in numbers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Club:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>42 games, 38 goals, 14 assists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Third best minutes-per-goal rate &#8211; 83.68 &#8211; of anyone scoring a minimum of 10 goals across Europe&#8217;s top five leagues during 2016, behind Luis Suarez (82.57) and Falcao (59.6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Directly involved in 39 La Liga goals in 30 games &#8211; 31 scored and nine assists.\n<div class=\"ins cleared xolcc bdrcc\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold\"><strong>International:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Appearances &#8211; 13<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Goals &#8211; 13<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Assists &#8211; 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Trophies &#8211;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Euro 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wocc\">BALLON D&#8217;OR FINAL STANDINGS<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ins cleared xolcc bdrcc\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">1. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Cristiano <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Ronaldo <\/span>(Real Madrid) 745 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">2. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Lionel<\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Messi <\/span>(Barcelona) 316 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">3. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Antoine <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Griezmann <\/span>(Atletico Madrid) 198 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">4. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Luis <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Suarez <\/span>(Barcelona) 91 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">5. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Neymar <\/span>(Barcelona) 68 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">6. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Gareth <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Bale <\/span>(Real Madrid) 60 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">7. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Riyad <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Mahrez <\/span>(Leicester) 20 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">8. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Jamie <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Vardy <\/span>(Leicester) 11 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">9. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Gianluigi <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Buffon <\/span>(Juventus), <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Pepe <\/span>(Real Madrid) 8 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">11. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Pierre<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Emerick <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Aubameyang <\/span>(Borussia Dortmund) 7 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">12. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Rui <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Patricio <\/span>(Sporting Lisbon) 6 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">13. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Zlatan <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Ibrahimovic <\/span>(Manchester United) 5 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">14. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Paul <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Pogba <\/span>(Manchester United), <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Arturo <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Vidal <\/span>(Bayern Munich) 4 <span class=\"\">points<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">16. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Robert <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Lewandowski <\/span>(Bayern Munich) 3 points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">17. <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Toni <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Kroos <\/span>(Real Madrid), <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Luka <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Modric <\/span>(Real Madrid), <span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Dimitri <\/span><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Payet <\/span>(West Ham) 1 point<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has beaten off competition from the likes of Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann to claim his fourth Ballon d&#8217;Or. The prolific Portuguese, who previously lifted the prestigious prize in 2008, 2013 and 2014, has enjoyed arguably the most successful year of his illustrious career, winning the Champions League with Real Madrid before captaining his country to European Championship glory in France. The 31-year-old is now one behind Barcelona&#8217;s Messi, who took the honour for a fifth time last year. Atletico Madrid&#8217;s French forward Antoine Griezmann finished third in the vote. Ronaldo&#8217;s 2016 in numbers \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Club: 42 games, 38 goals, 14 assists Third best minutes-per-goal rate &#8211; 83.68 &#8211; of anyone scoring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}