The football players with the most Ballon d'Or awards

Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded the Ballon d'Or by Fifa last night after being voted by coaches, players and media professionals as the best player in the world in 2014.

As the above chart from Statista shows, that brings the ever-gracious Portuguese forward's total to three - just short of record-holder and his arch-rival Lionel Messi who has four.

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