FIFA Ballon d'Or 2013

World Player of the Year 2013
Cristiano Ronaldo

The 58th Ballon d'Or ( French for Golden Ball ) was awarded for the fourth time in 2013 by France Football magazine and the world football association FIFA under the name FIFA Ballon d'Or . Due to the low turnout, the deadline for voting was extended from November 14th to November 29th, 2013, so that the performance in the relegation games of the qualification for the soccer World Cup could also be taken into account. FIFA Media Director Walter de Gregorio assured, however, that the unusual procedure only drove the voter turnout to a “solid” 88 percent and that Cristiano Ronaldo would have been the winner even before that. This was confirmed by the auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers , which supervised the election process.

After the three best players had already been published in December 2013 - still without their respective placement on the “podium” - the final results were announced on January 13, 2014 at FIFA headquarters in Zurich . The winner of the 2013 Ballon d'Or was Cristiano Ronaldo . The Portuguese collected 1,365 points in the vote, relegating Lionel Messi (1,205 points) and Franck Ribéry (1,127) to second and third place.

Voting mode

The prize was awarded by a jury made up of 184 national coaches, 184 national team captains and 173 specialist journalists. These awarded five, three or one point to three players from a list jointly set by the France Football editorial team and FIFA. The performance of the players should be recognized throughout the respective calendar year. Since the three groups of voters have different numbers of voters, but the votes of these three "electoral colleges" should each account for exactly one third of the total result, the absolute scores were then converted into percentages and published in this way.

Result

placement	Surname	nationality	society	Share of votes
1.	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	real Madrid	27.99%
2.	Lionel Messi	Argentina	FC Barcelona	24.72%
3.	Franck Ribery	France	FC Bayern Munich	23.39%
4th	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	Paris Saint-Germain	5.29%
5.	Neymar	Brazil	FC Santos / FC Barcelona	3.17%
6th	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	FC Barcelona	2.08%
7th	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	Manchester United	1.81%
8th.	Arjen Robben	Netherlands	FC Bayern Munich	1.74%
9.	Andrea Pirlo	Italy	Juventus Turin	1.44%
10.	Gareth Bale	Wales	Tottenham Hotspur / Real Madrid	1.33%
11.	Falcao	Colombia	Atlético Madrid / AS Monaco	1.09%
12.	Yaya Touré	Ivory Coast	Manchester City	0.99%
13.	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	Borussia Dortmund	0.88%
14th	Philipp Lahm	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	0.82%
	Xavi	Spain	FC Barcelona	0.82%
16.	Mesut Özil	Germany	Real Madrid / Arsenal FC	0.72%
17th	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	0.43%
18th	Luis Suarez	Uruguay	Liverpool FC	0.39%
19th	Thomas Müller	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	0.37%
20th	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay	SSC Naples / Paris Saint-Germain	0.25%
	Thiago Silva	Brazil	Paris Saint-Germain	0.25%
22nd	Eden Hazard	Belgium	Chelsea FC	0.16%
23.	Manuel Neuer	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	0.08%

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ballon d'Or: Angerer and Ronaldo are the world footballers. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 13, 2014, accessed on January 17, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Ronaldo before the new deadline number one. In: sportbild.de. Sport Bild , January 22, 2014, accessed April 21, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Ronaldo, Angerer, Heynckes and Neid triumph. In: fifa.com. FIFA , accessed November 8, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Lukas Rilke: World Footballer of the Year: Ronaldo in first place ahead of Messi. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , January 13, 2014, accessed January 14, 2014 .