VOTING PATTERN SHOWS HOW AFRICA HELPED CRISTIANO RONALDO TO WIN 2017 FIFA WORLD BEST AWARD
VOTING PATTERN SHOWS HOW AFRICA HELPED CRISTIANO RONALDO TO WIN 2017 FIFA
WORLD BEST AWARD
This
time, votes from Africa is significant.
Africa is instrumental in Cristiano Ronaldo winning the
award this year. (FIFA)
The voting pattern by African coaches
and captains of national football teams shows Cristiano Ronaldo had a fair bit
of help from Africa.
The 2017 FIFA World Best
Award is voted for by captains and coaches as well as a journalist of
each FIFA member nation. This vote is ranked on three choices.
How the world voted 2. (FIFA)
The first choice receives five points
while the second and third choices get three and one respectively.
For most of the votes from Africa,
the voting went in favour of Cristiano Ronaldo. However, there are few cases
like coaches of Algeria and Egypt, Burkina
Faso’s coach and captain, Nigeria’s coach and captain and captain of
Cameroun, Benjamin Moukandjo chose Messi over Ronaldo.
Raïs M'Bolhi, captain of the Desert Foxes' of
Algeria voted for Ronaldo. Similar pattern of voting was observed with many
countries in the continent.
How the world voted 1.(FIFA)
For the most part, the African
coaches and captains got it right. Three of the top five ranked footballing
countries in Africa, had all the three classes of votes going in favour of
Ronaldo.
Cristiano Ronaldo is winning the FIFA
Best Player Award for a second consecutive time in a roll since the award has
been separated from the Ballon d’Or award in 2016.
How the world voted 3. (FIFA)
How the world voted 4. (FIFA)
How the world voted 5. (FIFA)
