{"id":364518,"date":"2017-10-23T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364518"},"modified":"2017-10-23T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:30:02","slug":"ronaldo-beats-messi-to-win-fifa-best-player-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/ronaldo-beats-messi-to-win-fifa-best-player-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo beats Messi to win Fifa Best Player award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cristiano Ronaldo was named the world’s best player at the 2017 Best Fifa Football Awards in London.<\/p>\n
The Real Madrid and Portugal forward beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Paris St-Germain’s Neymar to the honour.<\/p>\n
Ronaldo, 32, helped Real to a Champions League-La Liga double in 2016-17.<\/p>\n
Lieke Martens of Barcelona and the Netherlands won best female player, Real Madrid’s Zinedine Zidane was named best men’s coach and Netherlands’ Sarina Wiegman the best female coach.<\/p>\n
Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud received the Puskas award for the best goal of 2017 for his ‘scorpion kick’ against Crystal Palace in January.<\/p>\n