Cristiano Ronaldo is 始める，決める to 勝利，勝つ 2016 Ballon d'Or... and even Lionel Messi fans might 収容する／認める Real Madrid 星／主役にする deserves it after incredible year

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At around 7pm tonight Cristiano Ronaldo will be 発表するd as the 2016 Ballon d’Or 勝利者.

フラン Football magazine 漏れるd that the Portuguese 星／主役にする is to move within one of Lionel Messi's five Ballon d'Or awards.

Such has been the year he has had that you might even a find a few of Messi’s biggest fans admitting that Ronaldo deserves it this time.

Remember this award is not about who the best player in the world is, or who the best player in history is.

This award is 簡単に for whoever was the best player in 2016 and Ronaldo won the European Cup with his club and the European 選手権 with his country. It’s difficult to argue with that.

Although he was not man of the match in the Milan 支持する／優勝者s League final, without his hat-trick in the ４半期/4分の1-final against Wolfsburg, Real Madrid would not even have been in the final.

They had been sloppy in the first 脚 losing 2-0 and the Germans （機の）カム to the Bernabeu with what seemed like a real chance.?

Ronaldo 選び出す／独身-handedly gave them no chance, 得点する／非難する／２０ing two in two minutes in the first half and then gett ing the 勝利者 in the second period with a 解放する／自由な-kick.

And against Atletico Madrid although he did not have his greatest night, who was it that stepped up to 得点する／非難する／２０ the winning 位置／汚点／見つけ出す-kick that 確実にするd Real Madrid their 11th European Cup? Ronaldo. And there was never a 疑問 that he would 得点する／非難する／２０ it.

And if in club 競争 he plays for a team that せねばならない 勝利，勝つ the European Cup on a 正規の／正選手 basis, success for his country has been a dream for １０年間s.

At フラン 2016 they were almost nobody’s shout for the 栄冠を与える and yet they got there somehow to 勝利，勝つ their first major tournament.

Ronaldo’s final was 削減（する） short by 傷害 but again without his two goals in their final group game against Hungary they would never have got that far. And he was 重要な in the ノックアウト 段階.?

It was his 発射 that Danijel Subasic 押し進めるd out to Ricardo Quaresma to 得点する／非難する／２０ the winning goal against Croatia in the 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 16. Ronaldo then buried his 刑罰，罰則 in the shoot-out that separated Portugal and Poland, and he struck the opener in the 2-0 勝利，勝つ over むちの跡s in the 半分-final.

Messi’s （人命などを）奪う，主張する to the prize this season 残り／休憩（する）s on the 26 goals he 得点する／非難する／２０d at Barcelona won their second straight league 肩書を与える. He also won the Copa del Rey and took Argentina to the final of the Copa America.

And it was as jaw-droppingly exhilarating watching him as ever. If you could only ever watch one more game of football in your life then you would still almost definitely make it one of Messi’s, but the sheer 負わせる of what Ronaldo 達成するd tips the balance in his favour.

There should be a 抱擁する honourable について言及する for Antoine Griezmann who was so important in Atletico Madrid’s march to another 支持する／優勝者s League final and to all that フラン 達成するd on home 国／地域 in the summer.

Had Karim Benzema not got himself banned from the tournament he and Griezmann might just have been enough to 勝利，勝つ the tournament for the hosts. We will never know.

The 2016 that Luis Suarez, Gareth Bale and Riyad Mahrez had, should also not be forgotten. Suarez 攻撃する，衝突する 40 goals in Barcelona's successful league （選挙などの）運動をする dragging them across the finishing line with some 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 業績／成果s.

Bale was man of the match in the European Cup final and sensational in フラン for むちの跡s. And with 17 goals and 11 補助装置s no-one did more to give the Leicester fairytale a happy ending that Mahrez. But still nothing 最高の，を越すs Ronaldo.

This will be his fourth Golden Ball and it takes him to within one of Messi’s 記録，記録的な／記録する of five. Their 支配 of the award now stretches 支援する eight years ? Kaka was the last ‘other player’ to 勝利，勝つ t he Ballon d’Or in 2007.

Messi is three years younger than Ronaldo and will hope to have the last word on their 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の golden ding-dong. But for 2016 it’s Ronaldo.

In keeping with his 成果／努力s to be seen as more of a team player he has not stayed in Europe to 選ぶ up the prize; instead he is in Japan at the World Club Cup with Real Madrid.?

He knows that 主要な them to another トロフィー will give him the perfect springboard into 2017 when the Messi v Ronaldo can begin all over again.