Was it really a surprise that the Manchester United winger won the European footballer of the year award? No, not really.
However, when I mentioned the fact that Ronaldo had won the trophy to my girlfriend’s dad he could not believe it. Being a Liverpool fan, he was certain the award should have gone to Fernando Torres. We argued for half an hour and in the end decided to call a truce agreeing that the pair of them had lit the Premier League alight last season.
Ronaldo was tipped to win the award after the Champions League final in May and I for one thought that he was a dead cert to win the famous Ballon d'Or trophy. After scoring 42 goals in a season where Manchester United won the Premier League title and the Champion League, it would have been an insult if the Portuguese man didn’t win it.
Because of Ronaldo's defining role in United's double winning season 77 of the 96 journalists on the Ballon d'Or panel voted for him as their number one player, earning 446 points from a maximum 480.
In this famous season for United, Ronaldo became the fifth player ever to score more than 30 goals in a single Premier League season and the first winger to win the Golden Shoe.
By winning the trophy, he became the third Portuguese player to do so - after Eusebio and Luis Figo and joined fellow Manchester United greats Dennis Law, George Best and Bobby Charlton. He also joins legends such as Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten, Johan Cruyff and Zinedine Zidane.
Lionel Messi came second and Liverpool’s Fernando Torres came third.
However, when I mentioned the fact that Ronaldo had won the trophy to my girlfriend’s dad he could not believe it. Being a Liverpool fan, he was certain the award should have gone to Fernando Torres. We argued for half an hour and in the end decided to call a truce agreeing that the pair of them had lit the Premier League alight last season.
Ronaldo was tipped to win the award after the Champions League final in May and I for one thought that he was a dead cert to win the famous Ballon d'Or trophy. After scoring 42 goals in a season where Manchester United won the Premier League title and the Champion League, it would have been an insult if the Portuguese man didn’t win it.
Because of Ronaldo's defining role in United's double winning season 77 of the 96 journalists on the Ballon d'Or panel voted for him as their number one player, earning 446 points from a maximum 480.
In this famous season for United, Ronaldo became the fifth player ever to score more than 30 goals in a single Premier League season and the first winger to win the Golden Shoe.
By winning the trophy, he became the third Portuguese player to do so - after Eusebio and Luis Figo and joined fellow Manchester United greats Dennis Law, George Best and Bobby Charlton. He also joins legends such as Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten, Johan Cruyff and Zinedine Zidane.
Lionel Messi came second and Liverpool’s Fernando Torres came third.
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