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Cristiano Ronaldo Wins Award Not Even Lionel Messi Has Won

Cristiano Ronaldo Wins Award Not Even Lionel Messi Has Won

The Juventus forward has won the award that can be only won once by a player and Lionel Messi is yet to win it.

Ryan Sidle

Ryan Sidle

Cristiano Ronaldo has been awarded this year's 'Golden Foot' award, and award so prestigious that not even his rival Lionel Messi has got his hands on it yet.

It's not been a vintage year for Ronaldo, with the Juventus forward part of a side that got knocked out of the Champions League last 16, but he still got his hands on a second Serie A title.

However there's no doubting he's still one of the best players in the world, something that's been true for over a decade, often fighting with Messi for the title of the number one.

The five time Ballon d'Or winner has once again had his achievements on the pitch recognised as he's become the latest winner of the 'Golden Foot' award.

The award is given out once a year and is a "prestigious lifetime achievement award attributed every year to the greatest in the history of world football," players must be active and have to be over the age of 28, which explains the delay in Ronaldo or Messi winning.

A panel of journalists decide on the winner from a list of 10 nominees every year and each player can only win the award once.

It has been going since 2003 and the list of winners is who's who of footballing elite in that time, which further explains why Messi is yet to win.

Roberto Baggio was the first to be given the Golden Foot and since then it's been won by the elite:

2003 - Roberto Baggio

2004 - Pavel Nedved

2005 - Andriy Shevchenko

2006 - Ronaldo Nazario

2007 - Alessandro del Piero

2008 - Roberto Carlos

2009 - Ronaldinho

2010 - Francesco Totti

2011 - Ryan Giggs

2012 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic

2013 - Didier Drogba

2014 - Andres Iniesta

2015 - Samuel Eto'o

2016 - Gianluigi Buffon

2017 - Iker Casillas

2018 - Edinson Cavani

2019 - Luka Modric

2020 - Cristiano Ronaldo

Buffon with his Golden Foot award in 2016. Image: PA Images
Buffon with his Golden Foot award in 2016. Image: PA Images

You'd have thought that in 2021 the award panel will get it right and Messi will finally be added to the list, there's only a few years left for them to do so.

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: Football News, Football, World Football, Serie A, Lionel Messi, Ballon d'Or, Juventus, Cristiano Ronaldo

Ryan is a writer for SPORTbible. He covers all sport from football, formula one, cricket, rugby, tennis, athletics, mma and wrestling. He obviously hates YOUR football team and has no interest in synchronised swimming.

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