As for Ronaldo, despite being Juventus’ rookie last season, he has shown a high performance when he won the scudetto for the eighth time with the “Old Lady of Turin”. CR7 itself was also voted “Best Player of the Year Serie A season 2018/19” but he and Juve lost Ajax and Atalanta in the quarterfinals of the Champions League and the Italian National Cup.

Even so, Ronaldo was still able to shine for the Portuguese to win the UEFA Nations League (winning the Dutchman Van Dijk, De Ligt and De Jong in the final).

Unfortunate absences

Of the top 10 candidates selected by FIFA to compete for “The Best” this year, it is clear that there are no big stars such as Luka Modric, Antoine Griezmann, Neymar, Paul Pogba or Luis Suarez. But the most unfortunate of these are names like Allison Becker, Christian Eriksen, Son Heung Min, Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva.

Stars are forgotten by FIFA at this year’s “The Best” award

Modric won the “The Best 2018” award but did not have a chance to defend this title this year when he and Real Madrid played last year.

Allison won the title of “Golden Gloves” for the best goalkeeper in all three major leagues, the Premier League, the Champions League last season (with Liverpool European champions) and this year’s Copa America (contributing to helping Brazil. home championship). Eriksen and Son Heung Min played brightly to help Tottenham into the Champions League final and finish the top four Premier League.

Bernardo Silva is the best player in the UEFA Nations League (helping Portugal to win), he also joined Aguero and De Bruyne to make a big contribution to help City successfully defend the English Premier League against a fierce pursuit. of Liverpool until the last round of last season.

The votes from fans will be one of the factors that determine the title. Besides the ballot from the coach and captain of the national team, the prestigious journalist worldwide.

The awards ceremony will officially take place in Milan on September 23.