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Ronaldo Wins UEFA Awards

Written by Adeleke Afolayan

Thursday, 28 August 2008

Top scorer in last season's UEFA Champions League and Manchester United attacker Cristiano Ronaldo, not surprisingly, winning the UEFA Player of the Year Award presented at the draws for the competitions group stage.

The Portuguese ace also picked up the award for Best Forward in the 2007/08 competition where he finished as top scorer with eight goals from 11 appearances including one in the final against Chelsea.

Chelsea midfielder and the highest paid player in the English Premier League, Frank Lampard was picked as UEFA Midfielder of the Year ahead of Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas, Steven Gerrard of Liverpool and Manchester United's Paul Scholes.

UEFA Defender of the Year went to England and Chelsea captain John Terry ahead of Red Devils' duo of Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic as well as Barcelona captain Carles Puyol.

Chelsea dominated the awards with Petr Cech picking up the UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year ahead of United's Edwin Van der Sar, Arsenal's Manuel Almunia, Liverpool's Pepe Reina and Schalke's Manuel Neuer who had four pass him last night at Atletico Madrid in the second leg of the third qualifying round.

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