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Fa Barclaycard Premiership News
( 02 December 2008 )

English Premiership football News

Ronaldo scoops best player award
Cristiano Ronaldo won the prestigious Ballon d'Or trophy awarded by the magazine France Football.

Ronaldo scored 42 goals as Manchester United won the Champions League and Fa Barclaycard Premiership last season.

"He is one of the most beautiful day of my life I dreamed of something like a child," said 23-year-old winger.

Lionel Messi Barcelona, finished second and Liverpool Fernando Torres, finished third while Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard were also in the race.

Kaka AC Milan midfielder Brazilian won last year.

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Ronaldo the decisive role in the dual US-season has seen 77 of 96 journalists on the Ballon d'Or panel to vote for him as their number one player of the year.

"Great fills me with emotion, but I can not really describe," Ronaldo continued.

"I was not worried, because I was aware of what I did during the season.

"But for people who have mentioned my name, I say thank you. And thank you to my teammates.

"This (trophy) is one that I want to win again because it is so good.

"Therefore, I will wake up and I say to myself 'I want to be even better."

The Portuguese international has become only the fifth player to score over 30 goals in a Premier League season as Chelsea Pippo United nationally.

Ronaldo concordance of 42 goals earned him the Golden Shoe in Europe as a top scorer, making him the first winger to collect this honor.

And his 42nd strike of an astonishing season came to Moscow in United drew 1-1 draw at Chelsea in the Champions League final. He then missed in his place-kick in the penalty resulting Shoot-Out United, but Triumph.

The only real disappointment for Ronaldo arrived at Euro 2008.

The winger should be one of the stars of the tournament, but I find it hard to lift his side and Portugal was launched in the quarter-finals.

One summer, the fever of speculation on the future of Ronaldo after gave a dream move would be to move to Spanish giants Real Madrid.

But United have dug their heels in October and Ronaldo's future commitment to the Old Trafford club.

Torres, meanwhile, enjoyed a phenomenal debut season in the Premier League following his big-money move from Atletico Madrid.

The 24-year-old scored 24 goals for Liverpool, the highest by a foreign player in their maiden season, and then to score the winner for Spain in the Euro 2008 final.
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2008 Ballon d'Or voting

1 .Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester Utd) 446 points
2 .Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 281 pts
3 .Fernando Torres (Liverpool) 179 pts
4 .Iker Casillas (Real Madrid) 133 pts
5 .Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona) 97 pts
6 .Andriy Arshavin (Zenit St-Petersburg) 64 pts
7 .David Villa (Valencia) 55 pts
8 .Kaka (AC Milan) 31 pts
9 .Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan) 30 pts
10. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) 28 pts
11 .Marcos Senna (Villarreal) 16 pts
12 .Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal) 12 pts
13 .Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) 11 pts
14 .Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid) 10 pts
15 .Frank Lampard (Chelsea) 8 pts
16 .Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich) 7 pts
17 .Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona) 6 pts
18 .Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) 5 pts
19 .Michael Ballack (Chelsea), Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal) 4 pts
21 .Didier Drogba (Chelsea), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Nemanja Vidic (Manchester United) 3 pts
24 .Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Real Madrid), 2 pts
by bbcnews.