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Cristiano Ronaldo was second in the vote for the best footballer in the world, having voted for ‘opponents’ Robert Lewandowski and Lionel Messi, who, in turn, bypassed the Portuguese international.
According to the voting results published by FIFA, the Polish international had 52 points, 14 more than the Portuguese striker (38) and 17 more than the Argentine (35), holder of the record for trophies that had won the award in the year . past.
Lewandowski dominated the preferences of all categories of voters, that is, selectors (554 points), ‘captains’ of selections (631), media (807) and supporters (679,997).
Ronaldo alone was not the second most voted in the coach’s pick (186 points), most of whom preferred Lionel Messi (196) after the Polish striker.
As ‘captain’ of the Portuguese team, Ronaldo voted for Lewandowski (first place), Messi (second) and the French Kylian Mbappé (third), but did not receive the same preference as the other two finalists.
The Polish striker chose Spanish Thiago Alcântara (first place), his former Bayern teammate, Brazilian Neymar (second) and Belgian Kevin de Bruyne (third), while the Argentine international chose Neymar (first), Kylian Mbappé ( second) and Lewandowski (third).
As for the national coach, Fernando Santos, he voted for Cristiano Ronaldo (first), Lewandowski (second) and Neymar (third).
Among the Portuguese coaches abroad, only Paulo Bento, the South Korea coach, did not vote for Cristiano Ronaldo for the first place. The former Portugal coach chose Lewandowski (first), Senegalese Sadio Mané (second) and Ronaldo (third).
Pedro Gonçalves (Angola coach), Hélio Sousa (Bahrain), António Conceição (Cameroon), Luís Gonçalves (Mozambique) and José Peseiro (Venezuela) opted for the Juventus forward.
For his part, Carlos Queiroz, who was recently dismissed as Colombia’s coach, did not vote and is not even on the voter lists released by FIFA.
In the vote for the best coach of the year, the Germans Jurgen Klopp and Hans-Dieter Flick had exactly the same score (24 points), but the Liverpool coach ended up being declared the winner, since, according to the regulations, in case of Se priority to tie the votes of the selectors.
In this sense, Klopp had 686 points, while the Bayern Munich coach had 572. Flick also lost to his compatriot in the votes of the teams ‘captains (583 against 666), but surpassed him in the journalists’ votes and fans.
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