There are many who feel Cristiano Ronaldo or Virgil van Dijk or Mohamed Salah or Sadio Mané or Harry Kane should have won the Best FIFA Men’s Player Award.

But the winner turned out to be Lionel Messi. While there are millions who feel the award was given to the right choice there is still a bit of doubt about the transparency.

So FIFPro has officially released the ballots of Captains and Coaches of national teams and Media from every country that participated in deciding the winner.

First, let us take a look at the top 10 players according to their rank points.

From the above picture, we can see that Messi had 46% of the vote followed by Van Dijk at 38 percent and Ronaldo at 36 percent.

If you have doubts about how the voting is done please refer to this article

Now that we understood the process let look at the who voted for who by looking at the pdf linked here

Let’s look at who the winner Messi has voted for

Messi chose (1st) Sadio Mane (2nd) Ronaldo (3rd) Matthijs de Ligt

Who did VVD and Cr7 vote for

Cristiano Ronaldo – Portugal captain

(1st) Matthijs de Ligt (2nd) Frenkie de Jong (3rd) Kylian Mbappe

Cr7 didn’t choose either Messi or VVD but went with the next generation superstars. Is he saying it is time for next-generation to take over from him and Messi?

Virgil van Dijk – Netherlands captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Mohamed Salah (3rd) Sadio Mane

VVD gave Messi the vote of approval by giving him 5 points but then chose his Liverpool superstar duo Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.

Other well-known names

Sergio Ramos – Spain captain

(1st) Eden Hazard (2nd) Cristiano Ronaldo (3rd) Mohamed Salah

Didier Deschamps – France Coach

(1st) Kylian Mbappé (2nd) Cristiano Ronaldo (3rd) Messi Lionel

Joachim Löw – Germany coach

(1st) Eden Hazard (2nd) Kylian Mbappé (3rd) Mané Sadio

Gareth Southgate – England coach

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Cristiano Ronaldo (3rd) Virgil van Dijk

Steve Clarke – Scotland coach

(1st) Virgil van Dijk (2nd) Kylian Mbappe (3rd) Sadio Mane

Ryan Giggs – Wales coach

(1st) Cristiano Ronaldo (2nd) Lionel Messi (3rd) Virgil van Dijk

Mick McCarthy – Republic of Ireland coach

(1st) Virgil van Dijk (2nd) Frenkie de Jong (3rd) Harry Kane

Michael O’Neill – Northern Ireland coach

(1st) Virgil van Dijk (2nd) Mohamed Salah (3rd) Lionel Messi

Harry Kane – England captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Virgil van Dijk (3rd) Cristiano Ronaldo

Luka Modric – Croatia captain

(1st) Cristiano Ronaldo (2nd) Eden Hazard (3rd) Lionel Messi

Hugo Lloris – France captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Cristiano Ronaldo (3rd) Kylian Mbappe

Manuel Neuer – Germany captain

(1st) Virgil van Dijk (2nd) Sadio Mane (3rd) Eden Hazard

Sergio Ramos – Spain captain

(1st) Eden Hazard (2nd) Cristiano Ronaldo (3rd) Mohamed Salah

Eden Hazard – Belgium captain

(1st) Sadio Mane (2nd) Virgil van Dijk (3rd) Lionel Messi

Diego Godín – Uruguay captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Sadio Mané (3rd) Virgil van Dijk

Seamus Coleman – Republic of Ireland captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Virgil van Dijk (3rd) Cristiano Ronaldo

Andrew Robertson – Scotland captain

(1st) Virgil van Dijk (2nd) Frenkie de Jong (3rd) Sadio Mane

Granit Xhaka – Switzerland captain

(1st) Cristiano Ronaldo (2nd) Virgil van Dijk (3rd) Lionel Messi

Heung-Min Son – South Korea captain

(1st) Harry Kane (2nd) Virgil van Dijk (3rd) Cristiano Ronaldo

Ashley Williams – Wales captain

(1st) Virgil van Dijk (2nd) Eden Hazard (3rd) Frenkie de Jong

Steven Davis – Northern Ireland captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Virgil van Dijk (3rd) Sadio Mane

Aaron Long – USA Captain

(1st) Virgil van Dijk (2nd) Kylian Mbappé (3rd) Sadio Mané

Marek Hamšík – Slovakia Captain

(1st) Mohamed Salah (2nd) Lionel Messi (3rd) Virgil van Dijk

Cheikhou Kouyaté – Senegal captain

(1st) Sadio Mané (2nd) Virgil van Dijk (3rd) Lionel Messi

Ahmed Musa – Nigerian Captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Cristiano Ronaldo (3rd) Mohamed Salah

Guillermo Ochoa – Mexican captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Virgil van Dijk (3rd) Cristiano Ronaldo

Maya Yoshida – Japan captain

(1st) Virgil van Dijk (2nd) Cristiano Ronaldo (3rd) Lionel Messi

Giorgio Chiellini – Italian captain

(1st) Cristiano Ronaldo (2nd) Frenkie de Jong (3rd) Mohamed Salah

Radamel Falcao – Columbian captain

(1st) Cristiano Ronaldo (2nd) Lionel Messi (3rd) Virgil van Dijk

Dani Alves – Brazilain Captain

(1st) Lionel Messi (2nd) Sadio Mané (3rd) Virgil van Dijk

Roberto Martínez – Belgium Coach

(1st) Eden Hazard (2nd) Frenkie de Jong (3rd) Lionel Messi

Roberto Mancini – Italy Coach

(1st) Cristiano Ronaldo (2nd) Lionel Messi (3rd) Mohamed Salah

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