Multiple Awards for Cristiano Ronaldo, UEFA attacker and player of the season.. See details

Portuguese and Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has won the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award  for the 2016/17 season.


The 32-year-old Portuguese  who last term helped the Spanish group to their second progressive UEFA Champions League title and twelfth by and large in European football's head club rivalry – got the honor at the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League amass arrange attract Monaco on Thursday.

Ronaldo got the trophy for the second successive season and third time altogether, having likewise gotten the award in 2013/14.

He completed in front of two other shortlisted hopefuls, Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi and Juventus and Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, in a survey of the 80 mentors in the gathering phase of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, together with 55 writers chose by the European Sports Media (ESM) gathering, speaking to each of UEFA's part affiliations.

"I'm so happy to be here, and respected to win this trophy once more," Ronaldo said in the wake of accepting the honor. "Much thanks to you to my colleagues and congrats to them as well. I'm so honored – on account of the supporters of Real Madrid, and everybody who helped me to accomplish this trophy."

Ronaldo, who completed best scorer in last season's UEFA Champions League with 12 objectives, incorporating two in the last against Juventus in Cardiff, got 482 focuses in the survey, with Messi (141 votes) and Buffon (109 votes) completing second and third separately.