Cristiano Ronaldo beats Lionel Messi to win Fifa best male player award

MrrSEVEN · Oct 24, 2017

Cristiano Ronaldo was named the world's best male player at the 2017 Best Fifa Football Awards in London.

The Real Madrid and Portugal forward beat Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Paris St-Germain's Neymar to the honour.

Ronaldo, 32, helped Real to a Champions League-La Liga double in 2016-17.

Lieke Martens of Barcelona and the Netherlands won best female player, Real Madrid's Zinedine Zidane was named best men's coach and Netherlands' Sarina Wiegman the best female coach.

Arsenal's Olivier Giroud received the Puskas award for the best goal of 2017 for his 'scorpion kick' against Crystal Palace in January.

Celtic won the fan award after they honoured the club's 1967 'Lisbon Lions' with a stunning 360-degree card display on the 50th anniversary of their historic European Cup win.

Dailon Arroyo Blandon · Oct 24, 2017

I believe that this year Cristiano Ronaldo managed to conquer the Spanish league as well as the Champions league ... those achievements allowed him to win the FIFA award ... his goals were very decisive ... he deserves it ..!

Amdrius · Oct 24, 2017

The result is the result, but in my opinion the personality of Ronaldo is simply more PR than the personality of Messi, whom I still rank number one for the moment, including for his modesty.