’Roldo voted Europe’s top footballer’

Montevideo, December 31: Portuguese football phenomenon Cristiano Roldo was voted by European sports reporters Europe’s best football player for the second year in a row. The results of the survey, carried out by Uruguay’s El Pais daily and released on Tuesday, showed 89 of the 144 reporters queried med the Real Madrid forward as the region’s top player, reports Xinhua.

German goalie Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich) and Argenti’s Lionel Messi (Barcelo) came in distant second and third places, with 19 and 16 votes, respectively. IANS