Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is the Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder, and is fifth in this selection, among the 10 greatest winners of the FIFA World Player of the Year award, winning the Best Player in the World in 2004, and winning again in 2005.

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, a former Brazilian footballer, played as a forward. Ronaldo is considered by fans and experts, one of the greatest players of this sport of all time, winning the Best Player in the World 3 times, in 1996, 1997, and 2002, taking second place in 1998.

Zinédine Yazid Zidane is a French coach of Algerian origin and a former midfielder. Zidane is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, and currently runs Real Madrid. He won the Best Player in the World 3 times in the years 1998, 2000 and 2003, taking second place in the year 2006.

Cristiano Ronaldo works as a left winger, left midfielder and striker, being a Portuguese footballer who won the FIFA World Player of the Year in 2008, 2016 and 2017. But Cristiano Ronaldo has twice won the FIFA Ballon d' Or, in the years 2013 and 2014, coming in second place 3 times. He was named after former President Ronald Reagan of the United States, his father's favorite actor.  Cristiano Ronaldo started playing at the age of 8 in the youth categories of Clube Futebol Andorinha de Santo António.