Posts tagged ‘Fifa player of the year’
Cristiano Ronaldo Grabs The First FIFA Puskas Award With Wonder Goal v FC Porto.
Cristiano Ronaldo won the first FIFA Puskas award in honor of the legendary Ferenc Puskas. See how he won the award which was presented to him by Puskas’…
On July 6: 25,000 fans for Ronaldo at the Bernabeu!
Fifa’s Player of the Year and Ballon d’Or winner, Cristiano Ronaldo, is expected to break more records when he gets officially presented as a Real Madrid player.
Nothing has been confirmed as yet concerning the financial agreements between Ronaldo and the Spanish Giants. However, fresh reports suggest that the Fifa Player of the Year will appear at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium for the first time with his new Real Madrid shirt on July 6. More…
Lionel Messi to Cristiano Ronaldo: It won’t be Me v You in Rome
Barcelona and Manchester United clash against each other in the final of the Champions League in exactly one week’s time.
The World’s best player, Cristiano Ronaldo, may have the opportunity to reclaim his individual awards by helping Manchester United trample Lionel Messi’s More…
And the winner of the Fifa Player of the Year award is… Cristiano Ronaldo!
Manchester United’s Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo has finally been crowned Fifa Player of the Year 2008.
At only 23 years of age, Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the youngest winner of this award in over a decade.
The number 7 Star was awarded on Monday night in Zurich, in front of personalities like Bobby Charlton, for his tremendous season in which his remarkable record of 42 goals in 49 games powered the Red Devils to win both the Champions League and the Premiership.
Above all, Ronaldo becomes the first ever Premiership player and only the second Portuguese after Figo in 2001 to win the Fifa Player of the Year award in its entire 18 years history. More…
Sergio Aguero: Ronaldo is an exceptional player
Like his friend and national team mate Lionel Messi did, Atletico Madrid’s Sergio Aguero created his own 2008 dream team which uefa.com released. The difference this time is that Cristiano Ronaldo is effectively part of his chosen squad.
The Argentine forward spoke about Ronaldo – whom Messi did not even mentioned in his interview with uefa.com last time – describing him as an ‘exceptional player’.
The prolific Portuguese goal scorer who hit an amazing number of 42 goals last season was consequently included in Aguero’s Best XI, with the ‘inexhaustible’ and ‘evergreen’ Alessandro Del Piero and the ‘complete striker’ Zlatan Ibrahimovic filling the line upfront. More…
Second best Lionel Messi to shock Cristiano Ronaldo?
The day for the Fifa Player of the Year award ceremony in Zurich is drawing closer and closer.
Xavi, Kaka and Torres are all in the running to lift the prestigious honour but the favourites to win it are Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
The Argentine Olympic medallist finished second best behind Ronaldo not only in the FourFourTwo or for the FIFPro Player of the Year award competition, but also for the Ballon d’Or which Ronaldo won with a landslide victory.
Ronaldo overcame the shock of slipping to defeat against Messi at any of these occasions, but can he make it again this time around? More…
Cristiano Ronaldo nominated for the Fifa Player of the Year award
The European Player of the Year and Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo has been nominated in a shortlist of five players to win the ultimate reward for last season’s performances: the Fifa Player of the Year award.
Amongst the nominated players are Barcelona’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi, and the reigning Fifa Player of the Year Ricardo Kaka of AC Milan. The Spanish duo, composed of Euro 2008’s best footballer Xavi Hernandez and Liverpool’s Fernando Torres, completes the shortlist. More…
Where lays the path to honour and pride?
As days go by, the public is getting tired of the transfer saga especially because of Ronaldo’s attitude. In the beginning, the twenty-three year old man looked very much undecided over which club he preferred. He even told the media, after the Champions League final game, that he could not promise anything neither to the fans of Manchester United nor to his mother.
Now, it is certain that Real Madrid is his number one and only choice; Ronaldo is acting like the good boy of his mother who previously declared that she wanted to see her son play for Real before her death.
Ronaldo’s aim is to be named as the best player in the world, a title that is given at the end of the year. Therefore, making a good decision over his club future is essential and crucial. More…
The right decision
July 7th was supposed to be the day when superstar Cristiano Ronaldo should have been unveiled as a Real Madrid player. As one could witness, this did not happen. Ronaldo is currently a Red Devil though seeing him leave Old Trafford for Spain is very much a possibility.
Earlier this year, the winger revealed he was driven to be the world’s greatest player but with Portugal’s quarterfinal exit, this dream has been slightly overshadowed. However, despite national team achievements playing a major part in rewards, club football success has a lot of importance too; reigning footballer of the year Kaka won almost all the awards a player could dream of despite not participating in the Copa America.
Consequently, if Ronaldo aims to be named the next Fifa Player of the year 2008, taking a decision over his club future surely is delicate and decisive. In these last few months, he has been criticised by fans in England for wanting to quit Manchester United too soon. Like Eric Cantona, many share the opinion that Ronaldo is just beginning to flourish and that he should wait two or three more years before leaving Manchester.
If Ronaldo stays in the Premiership, he would be competing against Euro 2008 Championship winner Fernando Torres of Liverpool who also intends to win the Fifa Player of the year award. But with success being Ronaldo’s number one aim, going to Spain might just be the right decision. With the country’s national team winning the European Cup and tennis player Nadal winning the Wimbledon title, many suggest that it is Spain’s year of triumph.
Clinching the UEFA Champions League trophy is one of the greatest tasks a player should do to be entitled as the best footballer on earth. And who knows? The cup could be moving from England to Spain come next season and maybe be in the hands of hungry giants Real Madrid.
Therefore going to Spain could be the perfect decision for Ronaldo to be a Galactico redeemer and the world’s best player.
Written by: Angela Asante