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Lionel Messi beat Cristiano Ronaldo to take home the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award on Thursday. Handed out during the UEFA Champions League group stage draw, the Argentine superstar beat Ronaldo and Barcelona teammate Luis Suarez to take home the silverware. To decide the winner, 54 votes from European journalists were tallied up. Messi received 49 votes, while Suarez had 3 and Ronaldo 2. Messi had 58 goals and 28 assists last year for his club, while Ronaldo had 61 goals and 22 assists. It comes as no surprise that Messi won, as the attacking superstar led his club to the treble last season.

Lionel Messi's four-year consecutive hold over the most prestigious trophy of the best player was snatched by Cristiano Ronaldo who was conferred with the title The FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the year 2013 as the world's best player.

Napoli's defender, Albiol has said that it will be difficult for Cristiano Ronaldo to score 40 goals in Serie A. Interestingly, CR7 netted in 40+ goals season after season in Spain. Ever since joining Madrid in 2009, CR7 has remained the most prolific goal-scorer, with several records to his name.

EA Sports announced the top 10 player ratings for FIFA 19. For the first time, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have gotten equal ratings. They are legends in the game and have dominated football for years. Both have occupied top-rated spots. This the first time they are sharing the top spot.

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Cristiano Ronaldo smashed a career 125th UEFA Champions League goal to give Juventus a slight advantage in Amsterdam against Ajax. The match ended at 1-1 with Juventus gaining a crucial away goal. In the other encounter, Barcelona beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford. Luis Suarez's header saw Luke Shaw score an own goal. Here are the key takeaways.

Making its way to the top three teams of the 'La Liga', Real Madrid is named as the third finalist to jump into the thrilling action on the football field sharing the place with Barca and Atletico. However, Cristiano Ronaldo was the missing beat in the Real Madrid team to tune for the exciting win after thrashing Getafe by 3-0 since he was suspended.

Rayo Vallecano are finally in a position to dream of La Liga survival. Photograph: Javier Etxezarreta/EPA In the middle of Rayo Vallecano's dark days, when they'd been beaten 15 times in 20 games and the goals were flying in; when they'd let in five from Atlético Madrid, five from Málaga, five from Villarreal, four from Espanyol, four from Sevilla, four from Barcelona, three from Madrid, three from Osasuna, and three from Valladolid; when they plummeted to 19th and stayed there for 11 long weeks; when the only reason they didn't fall further was that Betis were even worse; when even a glimmer of hope, a 4-1 win over Málaga, immediately gave way to a six-goal hammering; and when relegation wasn't an "if" but a "when"; there was a phrase that got repeated over and over: Paco Jémez will die with his ideas. Paco Jémez, though, had other ideas. Not because Rayo's coach was going to back down on his principles - "any club that signs me knows what it's getting," he insisted - but because he didn't have any intention of dying at all. Even when Rayo were a disaster, Jémez had his defenders. Off the pitch, that is. Last season, only two teams in Europe had the ball more than Rayo did: Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Early this season, when Rayo played Barcelona, they had more possession than them, the first team to manage it in 316 games. They threw men into attack, they were fun to watch, and parading the touchline in a dizzying array of multicoloured elbow patches and waistcoats, pink shirts and purple ties, Jémez urged them forward, always. In a country that values the aesthetic, or in which some do, he was eulogised for the way his teams played de tú a tú: as equals. Rayo didn't simply defend - sometimes they didn't defend at all - but instead they went for it. And, mostly, they lost. Rayo took the ball off Barcelona and Jémez declared himself "very proud". But they were beaten 4-0. They went to the Camp Nou where they were praised by Barcelona's

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Plannings are already underway as to how the teams would shape up for next season. Meanwhile, Spanish giants Real Madrid are eyeing two gigantic signings from the Premier League. Having lost Cristiano Ronaldo this summer to Juventus, manager Zinedine Zidane is eyeing an overhaul.

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Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has been named La Liga's best player of 2014-15 at the annual award ceremony on Monday.