It is no longer news that Cristiano Ronald of Portugal and Real Madrid has been adjudged the best player by FIFA on earth.
The mercurial midfielder achieve the feat after playing second place for Argentina phenomenal Lionel Messi of Barcelona football club of Spain for 5 to 6 time in the same award.
This is Ronald’s second time of grabbling this same award.
In our quest to feel how the soccer public feel about the development, our sports editor anchored some soccer pundits opinions in Port Harcourt.
Gabriel from landmark in Port Harcourt feels, FIFA has cheated Ronald for a long time as he has the same ability with Lionel Messi to grab the award, rather to give to him, he was denied of the award where he was placed second behind Lionel Messi of Barcelona FC whereas in the real sense of the award, Cristiano Ronaldo contributes to both club and country positively with sound result against Messi who only was effective in club but was a flop in country’s contribution in the last world cup, even at that time, Ronald was instrumental to Real Madrid success and country, scoring goals and proving many assist for goals.
Nkechi is female soccer follower of Port Harcourt city in Rivers State and fan of both players, Ronaldo and Messi. In her judgment has this to say, really Ronaldo is a good player and had kept up his form in all seasons, this award is long over due because of Lionel Messi who always will be adjudge ahead of Ronaldo by the voting soccer fans. What is yours is yours, but for Messi being injured, Messi would still be in serious contention against Ronaldo because both players are really on top of their game and play similar roles. While Messi plays in the attacking midfield position for his country and club, Ronaldo plays attacking midfield position from the right out wing in both club and country.
Baron of city academy in his opinion has this to say, consistency is the criteria of the balondor award in both country and club, I think, this is where Messi lost out in this year’s award. It would be recalled that Messi was ruled out of playing his football because of injury he sustained, this gave the edge to Ronaldo to top Messi as he was always featuring in club and country, doing his goal scoring and providing some assist for goals.
This has provided the opportunity for Ronaldo to claim the award without bias.
Ribery would have also been in serious contention for the award if not for county development. ###
