Zürich, 13 January: Ronaldo by 3%
By Paulo Áureo
Madeira started 2014 in front of the television. On 13 January, in Zürich, Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d’Or for 2013, his second after 2008.
It was close. Ronaldo got 27.99% of the vote, Lionel Messi 24.72% and Franck Ribéry 23.36%. In Funchal nobody was looking at the decimals. The museum with his trophies had opened a month earlier, and it now needed one more shelf.
He would win again a year later, and in the end five times. Our 2007 post wondered whether he would prove himself “as good as Maradona or Pele”. We are counting that as one of our good forecasts.
Sources: Wikipedia, 2013 FIFA Ballon d’Or