Portuguese player Cristiano Ronaldo won his third Ballon d'Or award as FIFA world footballer of the year and this is his second consecutive award. Ronaldo beat Argentina's Lionel Messi and Manuel Neuer by a huge margin. The Real Madrid player got 37.66 per cent of the votes while Messi got 15.76 per cent and Neuer stood third with 15.72 per cent of votes.

The 29 year old had a dream run in 2014, scored 63 goals for Real Madrid and Portugal. However, he could not take his Portuguese team to the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2014. Ronaldo first won the Fifa award in 2008 and again in 2014 won it. On this note, Ronaldo thanked all the people and fans who supported him throughout his career and wished to win as many Fifa awards as he can for his mother, father and son.

Germany's midfielder Nadine Kessler won the Women's player of the year.

- TVR