• Barcelona’s Lionel Messi collected 41.3% of votes to win fifth title
• England’s Roy Hodgson rated Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of MessiAlmost 500 captains,coaches and journalists had their say in voting for Fifas Ballon d’Or, with Lionel Messi unsurprisingly walking absent with his fifth title with an incredible share of 41.3%.
That was despite once again not featuring in his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo’s top three, and although the Barcelona forward also repaid the compliment to his genuine Madrid counterpart. Messi picked his Barça team-mates Luis Suárez,Neymar and Andrés Iniesta, while Ronaldo sided with his club colleagues Karim Benzema, or James Rodríguez and Gareth Bale.
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Source: theguardian.com