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Manchester United player Cristiano Ronaldo has won the 2008 Ballon d'Or, the annual award presented the French football weekly paper France Football.

Barcelona player Lionel Messi, who was third last year, finished second. Xavi was fifth, Eto'o seventeenth.

Ronaldinho was the last Barcelona player to win the trophy in 2005. Before, the Ballon d'Or was won by Barcelona players Luis Suárez (1960), Johan Cruyff (1973 and 1974), Hristo Stoichkov (1994) and Rivaldo (1999).




Full results

1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Por, Manchester United), 446 points
2. Lionel Messi (Arg, Barcelona), 281 pts
3. Fernando Torres (Spa, Liverpool), 179 pts
4. Iker Casillas (Spa, Real Madrid), 133 pts
5. Xavi Hernandez (Spa, Barcelona), 97 pts

6. Andrei Arshavin (Rus, Zenit), 64 pts
7. David Villa (Spa, Valencia), 55 pts
8. Kaka (Bra, AC Milan), 31 pts
9. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Swe, Inter Milan), 30 pts
10 Steven Gerrard (Eng, Liverpool), 28 pts

11. Marcos Senna (Spa, Villarreal),16 pts.
12. Emmanuel Adebayor (Tog, Arsenal), 12 pts.
13. Wayne Rooney (Eng, Manchester United), 11 pts.
14. Sergio Agüero (Arg, Atlético Madrid), 10 pts.
15. Frank Lampard (Eng, Chelsea), 8 pts.

16. Franck Ribéry (Fra, Bayern Munich), 7 pts.
17. Samuel Eto'o (Cam, Barcelona), 6 pts.
18. Gianluigi Buffon (Ita, Juventus), 5 pts.
19. Michael Ballack (Ger, Chelsea),
Cesc Fabregas (Spa, Arsenal), 4 pts.

21. Didier Drogba (Ivo, Chelsea),
Sergio Ramos (Spa, Real Madrid),
Nemanja Vidic (Ser, Manchester United), 3 pts.
24. Edwin van der Sar (Hol, Manchester United),
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Hol, Real Madrid), 2 pts.


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