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Cristiano Ronaldo has been named 'Best Player' of the 2011-12 season after receiving the most votes from sports correspondents via Goal.com’s dedicated international portal for the 'Goal.com 50' prize: "It is an honour for me to get this award. I would not have succeeded without the support of my teammates" said the Real Madrid forward, who finished an outstanding season as: member of the record breaking league title winning team, Champions League and Euro2012 semi-finalist, and with some great personal records: 60 goals in 55 games for Real Madrid.

In the fifth running of this award, the Real Madrid forward topped the list of the 50 most voted for players and then the other two finalists. The Portuguese found out about being named a as winner of the ‘Goal.com 50’ prize during the US afternoon whilst in Los Angeles following Real Madrid’ afternoon training session at UCLA’s campus. The team overseeing the Goal.com portal made the journey to present the award to him in person: "My immediate goals are to work as hard as I can to fight with my team mates for all the titles that we can. I have no priority because I want to win everything that I can, but for this we have to fight to and hard as we can and with all of the humility in the world. I'm sure that with a team like this, any obstacles will not seem as big" said the Portuguese player after receiving the award.

The good news for Real Madrid do not stop there, because the captain, Iker Casillas, finished in second place, ahead of Barcelona player Leo Messi, who won the prize in 2008-09 and 2010-11. Ronaldo repeated his success of the 2007-08 season and Casillas became the first goalkeeper to achieve such a high position in the history of the award. In the star-studded list of the 50 most voted for players, Real Madrid received the most votes as a team and has nine representatives in total. In addition to Ronaldo and Casillas, Real Madrid’s other seven are: Sergio Ramos, Mesut Ozil, Karim Benzema, Pepe, Xabi Alonso. Higuain and Sami Khedira.

WINNERS OF THE 'GOAL.COM 50' PRICE
Season	Player
2007/08	Cristiano Ronaldo (M. United)
2008/09	Leo Messi (Barcelona)
2009/10	Wesley Sneijder (Inter de Milán)
2010/11	Leo Messi (Barcelona)
2011/12	Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

The 'Goal.com 50' prize is voted for by the editors in chief of each of the 29 editions of Goal.com around the world. Goal.com is the most read football webpage in the world and has editions in five continents (in 16 different languages), in countries such as USA, England, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, Australia, Ghana , Argentina, Germany, France, Portugal, Holland, Turkey, Hong Kong, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Thailand, China, Japan, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Nigeria, and in all of Latin America. The publication of the Goal 50 list of is done on the same day at the same time for all of the editions. Unlike the most prestigious individual award, the Ballon d’Or, which is based on performance during the calendar year, the 'Goal 50' award is voted for based on the performance of the players over a season: from the start of the first match of each campaign until the last. For this edition, voting was opened on 1st July following the conclusion of the Ukraine and Poland European Championship, won brilliantly by Spain.

'GOAL.COM 50' PRICE (2011/12)

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

2. Iker Casillas

3. Lionel Messi

4. Andres Iniesta

5. Andrea Pirlo

6. Didier Drogba

7. Xavi Hernandez

8. Ashley Cole

9. Yaya Toure

10. Sergio Ramos

11. Vincent Kompany

12. Mesut Özil

13. Mario Balotelli

14. David Silva

15. Robin van Persie

16. Karim Benzema

17. Sergio Agüero

18. Radamel Falcao

19. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

20. Pepe

21. Xabi Alonso

22. Marco Reus

23. Joe Hart

24. Jordi Alba

25. Ramires

26. Mats Hummels

27. Sergio Busquets

28. Mario Gómez

29. Robert Lewandowski

30. Cesc Fábregas

31. Gonzalo Higuaín

32. Emerson

33. Sami Khedira

34. Lukasz Piszczek

35. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

36. Neymar

37. Arturo Vidal

38. Gigi Buffon

39. Eden Hazard

40. Wayne Rooney

41. Olivier Giroud

42. Christopher Katongo

43. Dani Alves

44. Shinji Kagawa

45. Petr Cech

46. Roman Shirokov

47. Fernando Llorente

48. Youssef Msakni

49. Andrea Barzagli

50. Clint Dempsey

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	Camiseta de Ronaldo en la tienda del Real Madrid para España
	Camiseta de Ronaldo en la tienda del Real Madrid Internacional