Ronaldo wins the ''Golden Ball'

* Torres, and Messi Among Top rated

* The Luso exceeded the vote to Messi and Fernando Torres

* Among the top five were also Casillas and Xavi; Villa was the seventh

Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United, won the 53 th 'Golden Ball', a distinction that delivers the magazine 'France Football' to the best footballer of the season. The Portuguese won 446 of 480 possible points, while Argentina's Lionel Messi of Barcelona and the Spanish Fernando Torres and Liverpool managed 267 and 165 respectively.

Successor of the Brazilian Kaka was the big favorite for all understood and even for most of the 30 players nominated by the wording of the magazine, who were among seven players in Spain: Casillas, Ramos, Senna, Xavi, Cesc, Torres and Villa.

The votes raised to the top position at Ronaldo with 446 of the 480 possible points, ahead of Messi, 'Silver Ball' and Fernando Torres, 'Bronze Ball,' which got 267 and 165 points respectively. The correspondents of the publication should score of 1 to 5 to the five best players of the year.

In addition to the third place of Torres, Xavi and Casillas came within the top five. Extending the review to the Top Ten also highlights the presence of Spaniard Villa, who took seventh place. Rounding out the 'top ten' Ashavin (6th), Kaká (8th), Ibrahimovic (9th) and Gerrard (10th).

The numbers of 2008 to offset the battle in advance, as Cristiano has been the protagonist most of the season and it also involves a media halo higher than other applicants.

The'7 'Manchester United won its second consecutive English League mainly because it marked the 31 goals scored in the competition, which added to the 11 achieved in the rest of the tournament will at most distinguished filmmaker on the continent and therefore' Boot Gold 'award he received at the start of this season.

His only weakness in a magical season lay in the low profile showed that in the Championship last summer, in which Portugal was eliminated by Germany in the quarter-finals.

"If I vote, pick the prize with great pride, but it's not an obsession," said a few weeks ago, Cristiano Ronaldo, who already is the third Portuguese in this, after Eusebio in 1965 and Luis Figo in 2000.