:quality(75)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcomercio/F3WKN3F4KVCU5MVODJV4RICVEA.jpg "Why didn’t Cristiano vote as Portugal captain at The Best awards?")
The FIFA The Best awards gala has left Lionel Messi as the big winner and Cristiano Ronaldo as the greatest absence. In the past those ceremonies have remained in which the paths of the Argentine and the Portuguese crossed to decide the best in the world. Today, only the lights of Rosario shine and the Al Nassr striker has been so relegated that he no longer participates with his votes in choosing the winners. For the first time in many years, the Portuguese footballer has been completely oblivious to the votes. Which is the reason?
Cristiano Ronaldo was prevented from participating in the voting for The Best award for having been relegated to the bench in the last World Cup in Qatar. For FIFA, only the captains of the teams have the right to choose the winners and the former Real Madrid striker spent a lot of time as a substitute.
Thus, the person in charge of voting for The Best award, on behalf of the Portugal team, was Pepe, who put Mbappé in first place and forgot about Lionel Messi. The rest of the choices made by the former Real Madrid footballer were Luka Modric and Karim Benzema, in second and third place.
For the former Real Madrid player, Modric and Benzema did things better in the season in which the meringues won LaLiga and the Champions League.
How many The Best awards has Cristiano Ronaldo won?
The historic player for Real Madrid and the Portuguese National Team won the first two editions of ‘The Best FIFA Awards’ in 2016 and 2017. In the first year, he became champion of the Champions League against Atlético de Madrid and of the European Championship against France; for the following year, he was crowned again in the European Champions Cup against Juventus.
How many The Best awards has Lionel Messi won?
Lionel Messi, chosen in Qatar as the best player of the World Cup, in which he finished as second scorer with 7 goals, to which he added three assists, adds a new personal reward at his 35 years, the second The Best, after the achievement in 2009, an award in which he has been a finalist in 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021.
With his seven Ballon d’Ors, the Argentine player reigns in individual awards in the world, equaling The Best awards with the Polish Robert Lewandowski, who won it in 2020 and 2021, and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, in 2016 and 2017. In this FIFA award has been in the top three six of the seven times it has been given.
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