Buffon, Messi or Ronaldo will win UEFA’s best player of the year

CAIRO – 15 August 2017 – UEFA announced on its website on Tuesday the shortlist of the nominees to the UEFA’s best player of the year award.

Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid forward, Lionel Messi Barcelona’s forward and Gianluigi Buffon the goalkeeper of the Italian champion Juventus are the three players of the UEFA shortlist nominated to win the best player of the year after a long exhausting season for the three of them and for their teams as well.

Ronaldo made great performance at 2016/2017season with Real Madrid as he helped his team in obtaining the UEFA Champions League title by defeating 3 of the strongest teams in Europe, in quarterfinal facing the German champion Bayern Munich, and also defeating the rival Atletico de Madrid at the semifinal and smashing the Italian champion Juventus in the final with a 3-1 victory, Ronaldo also helped the team to win La Liga (the Spanish premier league).

While the Argentinean magician Lionel Messi is nominated as well for his great performance in the last season despite not scoring La Liga title nor the Champions League, but Barcelona succeeded in winning Copa del Rey (the Spanish Cup) which made Messi and his team-mates has the opportunity to win the Spanish Super Cup which ended its first leg match with Madrid’s victory with 3-1.

The 39-year-old Italian goalkeeper was one of the biggest reason for Juventus to reach the final of the Champions League after his magical saves he had made in the whole tournament and specially in the two games against Barcelona at the quarter final of the tournament, he also saved Juventus nets in the last season to help the team to win Seria A (Italian premier league) and Coppa Italia (Italian cup).

The award will be presented at the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on Thursday 24 August.