Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted the best player by the Arab world.
The Real Madrid forward was chosen as winner ahead of Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery and Barcelona ace Lionel Messi in a vote carried out by the Algerian newspaper Le Buteur that involved a hundred or so media outlets representing 22 countries.
Le Buteur, one of Algeria's most prestigious sporting publications, organised a vote among media outlets representing 22 countries of the Arab world (Lebanon, Kuwait, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan and Libya, among others) to choose the best player in the world.
