Ronaldo defeats Messi by wider margin of: 43-19

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2017 by Marca.com

One year later and Cristiano Ronaldo is once again 'The Best', overcoming Lionel Messi by an even bigger margin than he did in the first edition of the prestigious FIFA award, in 2016.

Ronaldo enjoyed 43.16% of the vote which was made up of players, coaches, journalists and fans from all over the world, whilst Messi received 19.25% and Neymar finished third with just 6.97%.

In last year's edition of 'The Best', the Portuguese star received 34.54% of the vote compared to the Argentine's 26.42%.

This year, Ronaldo has been even better than his great rival according to the football world's experts.

Meanwhile, in his respective category, Zinedine Zidane gained an even higher proportion of the vote than Ronaldo with 46.22%, seeing off runner-up Antonio Conte with 11.62% and third-placed Massimiliano Allegri (8.78%), as the Frenchman was named the world's best coach for 2017.

When it came to the world's best goalkeeper, Real Madrid's Keylor Navas finished second to Gianluigi Buffon as the Costa Rican international earned 32.32% of the vote to the Italian's 42.22%, while Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer managed 10.10%.

In other news, Olivier Giroud won the prize for goal of the year with a 36.17% share.