Its Cristiano Ronaldo Winner Of FIFA Ballon d'Or 2017| Live

Number FIVE for Ronaldo What a player! The Portuguese has now won the award five times! His first came in 2008 before successes in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Cristiano Ronaldo wins it! Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Ballon d’Or. Reaction to follow. Cristiano Ronaldo was named 'best men's player' at FIFA's awards ceremony last month — and he'll be hoping to scoop the top gong in Paris today. The Real Madrid star is up against 29 of the world's best players in the France Football ceremony. Ronaldo pipped Lionel Messi (2nd) and Antoine Griezmann (3rd) in last year's ceremony and is the bookmakers' favourite to repeat that feat. For the 2017 award, Messi is second favourite, Neymar third and Gianluigi Buffon is fourth. We will bring you all the latest build-up to the star-studded event, as well as all the action when things get underway. Here is the man of the moment with his award. A quite incredible year. A quite incredible man. The FIFA Ballon d'Or (French pronunciation: ​[balɔ̃ dɔʁ], "Golden Ball") was an annual association football award presented to the world's best men's player from 2010 to 2015. Awarded jointly by FIFA and France Football, the prize was a merger of the FIFA World Player of the Year award and the Ballon d'Or, the two most prestigious individual honours in world football. The FIFA Ballon d'Or was awarded based on votes from international journalists and national team coaches and captains, who selected the players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar year. The six editions of the FIFA Ballon d'Or were dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as part of their ongoing rivalry. Barcelona's Messi won the inaugural Ballon d'Or in 2010, before retaining the title twice. Ronaldo, who plays for Real Madrid, won successive awards in the next two years. The final FIFA Ballon d'Or was presented to Messi in 2015. Its awarding bodies subsequently ended their partnership; for 2016, France Football reintroduced the previous format of the Ballon d'Or, while FIFA created The Best FIFA Men's Player award.