Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi Make FIFA's Men's Best Team for 2020

Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi Make FIFA's Men's Best Team for 2020

Ibitoye Shittu
updated at April 12, 2023 at 7:43 PM
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- Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have made FIFA's team of the year 2020

- Robert Lewandowski and Virgil Van Dijk also made the list announced by FIFA

- The Bayern Munich superstar was also named as the best player for the year

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World's football governing body FIFA have on Thursday, December 17, named their best team of the year in which Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi made the list.

Premier League champions Liverpool dominated the team of the year made by FIFA as four of their players were listed among the team.

The players who made the list from Liverpool are goalkeeper Alisson Becker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil Van Dijk and Thiago Alcantara.

Belgium international Kevin De Bruyne who plays for Manchester City in the Premier League also made the list as announced by FIFA.

Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos also made the list thanks to his incredible performances for Los Blancos last season which helped them to win the League title.

Below is the FIFA's XI for 2020

Alisson Becker of Liverpool

Alexander-Arnold of Liverpool

Sergio Ramos of Real Madrid

Virgil Van Dijk of Liverpool

Thiago Alcantara of Liverpool

Alphonso Davies of Bayern Munich

Kevin De Bruyne of Manchester City

Joshua Kimmich

Robert Lewandoski of Bayern Munich

Lionel Messi of Barcelona

Cristiano Ronaldo of Juventus

FIFA Award: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi make men's best team of the year
FIFA Award: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi make men's best team of the year. Photo by David Ramos
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Earlier, Legit.ng had reported how Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski was named as the best player on earth by world's football governing body in a colourful ceremony held on Thursday, December 17.

This will be the first time the 32-year-old will be winning the The FIFA Best Award as he beat Barcelona legend Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to win it.

Robert Lewandowski was incredible for Bayern Munich last season helping them to win the League title and also beat Paris-Saint-Germain in the final of the Champions League.

Barcelona star Lionel Messi won the award last year beating Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk who was also superb for the Reds in the Premier League and Champions League.

So far this season in the German Bundesliga, Robert Lewandowski has also been impressive and recently scored his 250th Bundesliga goal in Bayern Munich's 2-1 win against Wolfsburg.

Robert is now the third player in Bundesliga history to reach the landmark after Gerd Muller (365) and Klaus Fischer (268), but he is the first non-German to achieve the feat.

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