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2011 Ballon d’Or trophy belonged to Lionel Messi. This success makes Messi, Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo match as a collector of most of the world’s best player award, which is three times.
Again and again, Messi managed to beat his main rival in the title Christiano Ronaldo the best player in the world for the year 2011. Gala Dinner in the FIFA Ballon d’Or, held at FIFA headquarters in Zurich on Tuesday (10/01/2012) pm dawn, Messi again announced as the world’s best players after the won the most votes with 47.88% of the vote. Cristiano Ronaldo, who won 21.6% of the vote, while Xavi Hernandez won only 9.23% of the vote is in third position.

Praise continued to arrive for Lionel Messi. Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, even saying that the Argentine star can not be compared with anyone.

Messi has just won the Ballon d’Or third night of his career as a footballer. Thanks to this success, he matched the record of successful Michel Platini won the Ballon d’Or for three years in a row.
Since the first launch of FIFA in 1991, already there are 14 players who could take it, before last year put together a Ballon d’Or (European Footballer of the French Football magazine).

In addition to Messi, Zidane, and Ronaldo, who took it three times, there is Ronaldinho, who could take it more than once. The player who currently plays in Flamengo was reached in 2004 and 2005.

List of Winning The Title of FIFA World Player / FIFA Ballon d’Or
Year    Winner                          Country                    Club
1991    Lothar Matthaeus    Germany                  Inter Milan
1992    Marco van Basten    Holland                  AC Milan
1993    Roberto Baggio         Italy                       Juventus
1994    Romario                  Brasil                        Barcelona
1995    George Weah          Liberia                     AC Milan
1996    Ronaldo                 Brasil                        Barcelona/PSV Eindhoven
1997    Ronaldo                 Brasil                        Inter Milan/Barcelona
1998    Zinedine Zidane        France                     Juventus
1999    Rivaldo                    Brasil                        Barcelona
2000    Zinedine Zidane       France                     Juventus
2001    Luis Figo                 Portugal                  Real Madrid
2002    Ronaldo                  Brasil                        Real Madrid/Inter Milan
2003    Zinedine Zidane        France                   Real Madrid
2004    Ronaldinho               Brasil                       Barcelona
2005    Ronaldinho               Brasil                       Barcelona
2006    Fabio Cannavaro      Italy                         Real Madrid/Juventus
2007    Kaka                     Brasil                        AC Milan
2008    Cristiano Ronaldo      Portugal                   Manchester United
2009    Lionel Messi             Argentina                Barcelona
2010*  Lionel Messi             Argentina                Barcelona
2011*  Lionel Messi              Argentina                Barcelona
*) With the format of the Ballon d’Or