Top 5 Candidates For The Best FIFA Men's Player

#1 Cristiano Ronaldo / Portugal

Cristiano celebrates winning his fifth UCL title

No surprises. Cristiano Ronaldo had the season with the least blemishes in the current list of candidates to win the award. The Portuguese star, newly presented as a Juventus player, was the most prominent figure in Real Madrid's quest to a third straight UEFA Champions League title and the fourth in five years.

CR7 scored 15 goals in the 2017/18 UCL (the third most goals scored in a single season) and was the top goalscorer in the tournament for the sixth consecutive time and the seventh overall. Ronaldo did not score in the semis or the final of the European Cup, but he scored in the ten previous matches consecutively (establishing the record of scoring in eleven UCL games in a row, since he scored in 2017 final versus Juventus).

Cristiano was Real Madrid's best card when the team had its worst phase of the season, the three goals Ronaldo scored in the round of sixteen versus PSG came at the time when the team needed the most. His amazing performance versus Juventus in the quarterfinals was the definite turning point in the UCL campaign.

Despite a rocky start in the Spanish League, after missing the first four matches due to a suspension, Cristiano finished the year third in the goalscorers' list and was the player who gave his team the most points in the tournament. CR7 scored 26 La Liga goals in 27 matches.

For Portugal, the magical number seven scored four goals in four matches in the 2018 World Cup, giving his team the chance to secure a spot in the top sixteen and scoring a memorable hat-trick versus Spain the debut match.

The Portuguese ended the season with 44 goals in 44 matches for Real Madrid and scored ten goals in eleven games for Portugal. CR7 is the clear favourite to take home his third straight FIFA The Best award in a row.