{"id":1608,"date":"2017-08-25T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T07:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2017-08-25T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T07:20:11","slug":"ronaldo-named-uefa-player-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/ronaldo-named-uefa-player-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo Named UEFA Men&#8217;s Player Of The Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no surprise that Real Madrid star, Cristiano Ronaldo, is the UEFA&#8217;s Player of the year. The Left-winger was in a beast form in the last year, in La Liga as well as UEFA Champion&#8217;s League. Cristiano Ronaldo beat Barcelona&#8217;s striker, Lionel Messi and Juventus&#8217; Goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon to win the UEFA Player of the year. Also, with this, Cristiano Ronaldo wins the UEFA Player of the Year for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>Ronaldo had a tough competition in this one as he faced off Lionel Messi and Gianluigi Buffon.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Also Read:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/rooney-retires-international-football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wayne Rooney Retires From International Football<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Real Madrid forward amassed 25 goals for his team last year in the La Liga competition. Real Madrid also enjoyed a UCL-winning campaign where CR7 scored 12 goals in the 13 matches they played.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1622\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1622\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-28-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Buffon, Ramos, Modric And Ronaldo Bagged Other Awards As Well!\" width=\"724\" height=\"408\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-28-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-28-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-28-696x393.jpg 696w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-28-745x420.jpg 745w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture-28.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffon, Ramos, Modric And Ronaldo Bagged Other Awards As Well!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lionel Messi and his teammate, Andres Iniesta, are the previous winners of this award. Andres Iniesta won the award over his team-mate, Lionel Messi during the 2011-12 campaign. And since the last two years, The Real Madrid forward is winning this award.<\/p>\n<p>There were other award winners as well. Gianluigi Buffon failed to win the Player of the Year. However, he bagged the &#8216;Goalkeeper of the Season&#8217; award. Real Madrid enjoyed the award-winning night. Sergio Ramos and Luka Modric won Defender and Midfielder of the Year. Cristiano Ronaldo also won the Forward of the Yeah, ahead of Lionel Messi and Paulo Dybala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no surprise that Real Madrid star, Cristiano Ronaldo, is the UEFA&#8217;s Player of the year. The Left-winger was in a beast form in the last year, in La Liga as well as UEFA Champion&#8217;s League. Cristiano Ronaldo beat Barcelona&#8217;s striker, Lionel Messi and Juventus&#8217; Goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon to win the UEFA Player of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1345],"tags":[1652,1383,1651,1649,1650,1653],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-football-news","tag-andres-iniesta","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-gianluigi-buffon","tag-luka-modric","tag-real-madrid","tag-sergio-ramos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}