Dubai (Etihad)
Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo won the Maradona Award for Best Scorer of the Year 2023, at the prestigious Dubai Globe Soccer Awards, which are held with the support of the Dubai Sports Council and presented this year by Nakheel. The Atlantis Hotel and Resort on the Palm Jumeirah will host the award ceremony for the fourteenth edition on January 19.
“The Don” won the award, after beating Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland, adding the achievement to his list of distinguished individual successes. Ronaldo scored 54 goals in 59 matches, and was able to achieve his best goal tally in one year since 2017, when he was a Real Madrid player. He then scored 53 goals, which contributed to strengthening the Portuguese star’s position as the best scorer of the year, ahead of Paris Saint-Germain’s Mbappe (52 goals in 53 games), and Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane (52 goals in 57 games), while Erling Haaland finished. Manchester City Player of the Year with 50 goals in 60 matches.
The award crowned Ronaldo’s distinguished career over the past year, especially since he is now 38 years old, and he succeeded in scoring 34 goals for the Saudi Al-Nasr team, which is competing for the professional league title in the Kingdom, which did not prevent him from competing for the Best Player in the World award and the Best Player award. In the Middle East, and the fans’ best player award, it is noteworthy that Ronaldo is the game’s all-time top scorer with more than 873 goals.
The second and final round of voting across the 11 main categories of the Dubai Globe Soccer Awards and the six digital categories, in addition to the inaugural Italian League Awards (including the Italian League), saw more than 50 million votes recorded from football fans around the world, with more than 50 million votes recorded. The total number of participants in voting since its inception has reached 70 million, equivalent to twice the number of votes compared to 2022.
The official jury of the Globe Soccer Awards, consisting of more than 30 prominent football figures, including Francesco Totti, Iker Casillas, Luis Figo and Marcello Lippi, participated in the final selection process that ended on December 28, 2023.
The new Globe Soccer application succeeded in recording an unprecedented number of downloads, as 1.5 million people voted through this dedicated application.
2024-01-04 09:34:09
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