Ronaldo, who was also crowned the best player in the world in 2008,
has enjoyed an incredible year that saw him win the Champions League and
Copa del Rey trophies with Real Madrid. But who could challenge Ronaldo
for the award?
Five of his current team-mates join him on the
list with
Karim Benzema, Sergio Ramos, Toni Kroos, James Rodriguez and
most notably
Gareth Bale included, with the
£86m signing the only
British player to gain recognition this year.
Real's fierce rivals
Barcelona are well represented with four-time winner
Lionel Messi
joined by
Neymar, Andres Iniesta and Javier Mascherano, but
Luis Suarez
is controversially omitted from the shortlist.
World Cup winners'
Germany have six players on the list as
Kroos is joined by
Philipp Lahm,
Thomas Muller, Manuel Neuer, Bastian Schweinsteiger and
World Cup final
hero
Mario Gotze.
The
Premier League may not have an Englishman
to boast of, but at least five of it's foreign stars have been named as
Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and Thibaut Courtois of
Chelsea are joined by
Angel Di Maria and
Yaya Toure of
Manchester United and
Manchester City
respectively.
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