{"id":32489,"date":"2017-12-08T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32489"},"modified":"2017-12-08T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:38:51","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-beats-lionel-messi-to-fifth-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/cristiano-ronaldo-beats-lionel-messi-to-fifth-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo beats Lionel Messi to fifth Ballon d’Or"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to win the Ballon d’Or award for the fifth time – and the second year in a row.<\/p>\n

Victory took the 32-year-old Portugal international level with 30-year-old Argentine Messi, who won the most recent of his five awards in 2015.<\/p>\n

Messi’s ex-Barcelona team-mate Neymar, now at Paris St-Germain, was third.<\/p>\n

Last season, Ronaldo helped Real Madrid\u00a0win the Champions League\u00a0and their first\u00a0La Liga title since 2012.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ronaldo added the 2017 Ballon d’Or to those he won in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2016, and Messi is the only other recipient of the award since 2009.<\/p>\n

“This is something I look forward to every year,”\u00a0“Thanks to my Real Madrid team-mates. And I want to thank the rest of the people who helped me reach this level.”<\/p>\n

HOW THE 30-MAN SHORTLIST FINISHED IN VOTING<\/h3>\n
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1. Cristiano Ronaldo – Real Madrid<\/p>\n

2. Lionel Messi – Barcelona<\/p>\n

3. Neymar – Paris Saint-Germain<\/p>\n

4. Gianluigi Buffon – Juventus<\/p>\n

5. Luka Modric – Real Madrid<\/p>\n

6. Sergio Ramos – Real Madrid<\/p>\n

7. Kylian Mbappe – Paris Saint-Germain<\/p>\n

8. N’Golo Kante – Chelsea<\/p>\n

9. Robert Lewandowski – Bayern Munich<\/p>\n

10. Harry Kane – Tottenham<\/p>\n

11. Edinson Cavani – Paris Saint-Germain<\/p>\n

12. Isco – Real Madrid<\/p>\n

13. Luis Suarez – Barcelona<\/p>\n

14. Kevin De Bruyne – Manchester City<\/p>\n

15. Paulo Dybala – Juventus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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16. Marcelo – Real Madrid<\/p>\n

17. Toni Kroos – Real Madrid<\/p>\n

18. Antoine Griezmann – Atletico Madrid<\/p>\n

19. Eden Hazard – Chelsea<\/p>\n

20. David De Gea – Manchester United<\/p>\n

21. Leonardo Bonucci – Juventus<\/p>\n

21. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – Borussia Dortmund<\/p>\n

23. Sadio Mane – Liverpool<\/p>\n

24. Radamel Falcao – Monaco<\/p>\n

25. Karim Benzema – Real Madrid<\/p>\n

26. Jan Oblak – Atletico Madrid<\/p>\n

27. Mats Hummels – Bayern Munich<\/p>\n

28. Edin Dzeko – Roma<\/p>\n

29. Dries Mertens – Napolo<\/p>\n

29. Philippe Coutinho – Liverpool<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to win the Ballon d’Or award for the fifth time – and the second year in a row. Victory took the 32-year-old Portugal international level with 30-year-old Argentine Messi, who won the most recent of his five awards in 2015. Messi’s ex-Barcelona team-mate Neymar, now at Paris St-Germain, was third. Last season, Ronaldo helped Real Madrid\u00a0win the Champions League\u00a0and their first\u00a0La Liga title since 2012. Ronaldo added the 2017 Ballon d’Or to those he won in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2016, and Messi is the only other recipient of the award since 2009. “This is something I look forward to every year,”\u00a0“Thanks to my Real Madrid team-mates. And I want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32490,"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-32489","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\/32489"}],"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=32489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}