Cristiano Ronaldo named Best FIFA Men's Player for second year running

Portugal and Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has been named FIFA Best Men's Player award for the second year running beating Lionel Messi and Neymar to the individual award.

Ronaldo, who won the inaugural prize last year, was presented the award at the Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony in London on Monday night.

The Portugal captain was favourite for the award after a year that saw him help Madrid to a third Champions League crown in four seasons where he finished top scorer in the competition with 12 goals and a first La Liga title in five years, as well as the FIFA Club World Cup.

The award, which covers the period of Nov. 20, 2016, to July 2, 2017, is voted for by national team coaches, captains, selected media and fans.

Ronaldo won 43.16 percent of the total votes, while Lionel Messi came away with 19.25 percent and Neymar just 6.97 percent.

Thank you a lot to the guys for voting for me," Ronaldo said in accepting the award.

[I want] to give a mention to Leo and Neymar to be here, Real Madrid supporters, my teammates, my coach, my president --they support me all the year so I have to say thank you to them.

We are in England for the first time and I win consecutive awards. This is a great moment for me.

Amazing feeling to have won this award again. Want to dedicate to my family, my friends, my teammates and coaches from both Real Madrid and Portuguese NT and everyone who supported me. pic.twitter.com/umpYMo1JZg

— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) October 23, 2017

Ronaldo will hope to follow up this success by winning the 2017 Ballon d'Or, which would see him draw level with Messi in having won the prize five times.

Also at the award ceremony, Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane was named the Best FIFA Men's Coach.

Zidane won the award over fellow finalists Massimiliano Allegri of Juventus and Antonio Conte of Chelsea, both of whom won domestic league titles this year.

In a new award this year, Gianluigi Buffon was named the Best FIFA Goalkeeper for his play with Juventus and Italy and was also named to the FIFPro World 11 for the first time in a decade.

Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud won the Puskas Award for the year's best goal after his acrobatic scorpion kick against Crystal Palace in the Premier League in January.