Best of Europe: Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta

Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo are the three candidates for the prize Uefa Best Player in Europe 2011/12 . A panel of 53 sports journalists (one for each association affiliated to UEFA) has narrowed a list of 32 players choosing Messi (winner of the prize 12 months ago), his teammate at Barcelona, ​​Iniesta, and Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid. Despite winning the Scudetto with Juventus and with a large European national team that has given up only in the final against Spain, "only" one quarter to Andrea Pirlo. The above Juventus director Xavi Hernandez, second in 2011. The first three will be the deciding vote on August 30 in Monaco, at the draw for the Champions League group stage. Messi ended a great season 2011/12 by winning the Golden Boot with 50 goals (in front of Ronaldo, 46) and top scorer of the Champions League for the fourth consecutive year with a record of 14 goals. Goals from Ronaldo are ground states for Real Madrid won La Liga for the first time in four years. Iniesta was voted best player instead of Euro2012. In Monaco, the journalists will vote on the favorite player in real time using an electronic system . The positions from 4 to 10 ^ ^ have already been established as every journalist has presented a list of the top five players. The first went five points, the second four, and so on. This ranking from 4 ^ to 10 ^ place: 4 Andrea Pirlo (ITA) - Juventus (90 points ) 5 Xavi Hernandez (ESP) - Barcelona (57) 6 Iker Casillas (ESP) - Real Madrid (53) 7 Didier Drogba ( CIV) - Chelsea (31) (now the Shanghai Shenhua) 8 Petr Cech (CZE) - Chelsea (14) 8 Falcao (COL) - Atletico Madrid (14) 10 Mesut Oezil (GER) - Real Madrid (10) The prize, created in collaboration with the European Sports Media (ESM), celebrates the best player of any nationality who has played in a federation affiliated to UEFA last season.