Football award "Golden Ball" is presented annually to the best football player in the world according to polls of football coaches, team captains, sports journalists. On January 12, 2015, another ceremony took place in Zurich, at which the honorary prize was awarded to the best football player in the world in 2014.
Candidates for the 2015 Ballon d'Or prize included German goalkeeper 2014 World Champion Manuel Neuer, reigning Argentina captain Lionel Messi and Real Madrid attacking midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo.
In 2015, Cristiano Ronaldo won the Golden Ball prize for the Portuguese national team and the Spanish Real Madrid. This award was already the third in the career of the 29-year-old outstanding football player. Now Ronaldo is just one such award behind Messi. Cristiano himself at the prize-giving ceremony jokingly said that now you can try to catch up with Lionel in the number of balls won.
It is no coincidence that Cristiano Ronaldo was named the best football player in the world in 2014. Despite the disastrous performance of the Portuguese national team at the Brazilian World Cup, the 2013-2014 season for Cristiano was very successful, as evidenced by the excellent statistics of the Portuguese, as well as the outstanding achievements of Real Madrid, achieved through the outstanding skill of the Madrid Seven. So, Ronaldo won the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup with the club, became the winner of the club world championship, the winner of the Spanish Cup. Cristiano has scored 31 goals in the Spanish Liga and scored 17 times in the UEFA Champions League.
