Top 10 Ballon d'Or winners of all time

#2 Cristiano Ronaldo (2016)

CR7 is the outright favorite to win a fifth Ballon d'Or this year

If you stop him from shooting from distances, he will dribble his way into the box. If you stop him from shooting from inside the box, he will score from headers. IF your left-back stops him, he will make your center-back suffer. If you stop him from dribbling he will use his pace to get past you. If you stop him from scoring he will assist. In short, if you stop him from anything, he will get past you anyways. — Gary Neville

What a year 2016 was! Probably the best Cristiano Ronaldo has ever seen. A rare year where the Portuguese skipper proved himself on almost every level of the game. Ronaldo has amassed four Ballon d'Ors and one Fifa World Player of the Year award in his career.

The Champions League, the UEFA Euro 2016 and countless of other awards that you will be tired of counting. Looking at the endless list of accolades of Cristiano Ronaldo tells you the enormity of the superstar.

Speaking of his abilities, is there anything he can't do? Long shots. Free-kicks. Penalties. Headers. He has it all. There is utterly no way to stop the mighty Real Madrid talisman from scoring a number of goals he usually does in a season. No wonder he has won the most prestigious award on individual level four times and is in contention for a fifth one this year.

Except for the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo has won almost everything in the game. He has also moved ahead of Lionel Messi on the international level after winning the Euro in 2016. In the season 2015-16, he scored 51 goals in 48 matches in all competitions.

Since 2007, Messi and Ronaldo have dominated the football world like never before. He beat Messi to win the fourth Ballon d'Or in 2016 by with a whopping tally of 745 points, compared to the latter's 316. In so many ways, Ronaldo is the beast you would never want to face on a pitch.