Cristiano Ronaldo Wins FIFA World's Best Player 2017

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Best Fifa Men's Player - Cristiano Ronaldo
It has been a very good year for Ronaldo who has now won the 'Best Fifa Men's player' of the year, he won the inaugural Best Fifa Football Awards gong on the back of leading Portugal to victory at Euro 2016.
Ronaldo scored two goals in Real Madrid's 4 - 1 win over Juventus in the Champions League final and also scored 25 times in 29 appearances as his club won the La Liga title for the first time in 5 years.



Men's top three -
 Cristiano Ronaldo - 43.16%      Lionel Messi 19.25%      Neymar Jr 6.97%

 Best Fifa Women's Player - Lieke Martens
Martens, 24, was instrumental in the Netherlands' European Championship victory this summer, winning the player of the tournament accolade.
She saw off competition 2016 winner from Carli Lloyd of the United States and Deyna Castellanos, the 18-year-old Venezuela forward.



Women's top three-
Lieke Martens - 21.72%      Carli Lloyd - 16.28%      Deyna Castellanos - 11.69%

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Fifa made three changes to the side selected in 2016. Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon replaced Manuel Neuer, while AC Milan's Leonardo Bonucci replaced Barcelona's Gerard Pique in defence and PSG forward Neymar came in for Luis Suarez in attack.
The line-up featured five players from Real Madrid, two from Barcelona, two from PSG, one from Juventus and one from AC Milan. No Premier League players were included.


Best men's coach
Zidane won the award ahead of Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, who lifted the Premier League title in his first season, and Juventus' Massimiliano Allegri, who led his team to a league and cup double in Serie A and Coppa Italia.



Men's Coach top three-
Zinedine Zidane - 46.22%      Antonio Conte - 11.62%      Massimiliano Allegri - 8.78%

 Best women's coach
Netherlands coach Wiegman led the Netherlands to the Euro 2017 title on home soil, playing excellent attacking football. It was their first major women's international tournament title after a thrilling victory over Denmark in the final.



Women's coach top three-
Sarina Weigman - 36.24%      Nils Nielson - 12.64%      Gerrard Precheur - 9.37%

 Puskas award for best goal
The best goal of 2017 was, officially, scored by Arsenal's Giroud.
It came in the Premier League match against Palace on New Year's Day, the France forward converting a superb 'scorpion' kick volley in which he flicked an Alexis Sanchez cross from behind him over his shoulder and into the goal, via the crossbar, with his left heel.

Olivier Giroud's scorpion kick got 36.1% of the vote of the 792,062 votes

Best goalkeeper
Buffon, 39, won the award ahead of Keylor Navas, part of a Real Madrid's Champions League and La Liga double-winning side, and Manuel Neuer, who helped Bayern Munich win the Bundesliga.

"This is a great honour to receive this award at my age," said Buffon.



A World Cup winner, a 10-time Serie A winner, and now Gianluigi Buffon is the first winner of the best goalkeeper award.
The veteran Italian helped Juventus to a sixth consecutive league title and went 600 minutes without conceding in the Champions League.





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