MOSCOW, Oct 17 Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo ranked 20th Ranked in voting for the Ballon d'Or winner, the award given to Europe's best footballer of the year by French magazine France Football, the award's microblog tweeted. Ronaldo, 37, joined Manchester United from Italy's Juventus in the summer of 2021. The Portuguese is a five-time winner of the Golden Ball, a five-time winner of the Champions League, the champion of Europe in 2016.The following places in the voting were also announced:16. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool), 17. Casemiro (Real Madrid), Dusan Vlahovic (Fiorentina/Juventus), Luis Diaz (Porto/Liverpool), 20. Ronaldo, 21. Harry Kane (Tottenham), 22. Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden (both Manchester City), Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), 25. Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea/Real Madrid), Mike Maignan (Milan), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern), Christopher Nkunku (Leipzig), Darwin Nunez (Liverpool) «). «Golden Ball» was established by France Football in 1956 as a prize for the best player of the year in Europe (based on the opinions of a group of sports journalists). In 2010, FIFA and France Football announced the merger of the Ballon d'Or and FIFA Player of the Year awards (determined based on the vote of the captains and coaches of the national teams). In September 2016, France Football announced the end of its partnership with FIFA and returned to the original system for determining the best player of the year.
