UEFA.com website yesterday announced the best eleven players of 2016.
Football fans from all over the world had the opportunity to vote for their favorites. As the voting results showed, the most votes in team elections were not received by Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, but by Sergio Ramos.
The 30-year-old captain of Madrid's "Real" triumphed in the UEFA Champions League last season with "Real." S. Ramos scored the only goal in the final for the "white" team and was also one of those players who converted a penalty in the penalty shootout.
488,908 thousand website visitors in total voted for S. Ramos. Cristiano Ronaldo (450,220) came second in terms of votes, and Lionel Messi (418,449) took third place.
Let's remind that the 2016 UEFA team consists of Gianluigi Buffon, Jerome Boateng, Gerard Pique, Sergio Ramos, Leonardo Bonucci, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Andres Iniesta, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, and Antoine Griezmann.