Cristiano Ronaldo has won the FIFA Ballon d'Or for 2013, preventing his great rival Lionel Messi from winning the award for a fifth year in a row.

Cristiano accepted the trophy with his young son at the ceremony in Switzerland's Zurich. He secured the title with 1 thousand three hundred and sixty five points, 160 more than Lionel Messi.

Frenchman Franck Ribery was third. The votes are held by national captains and coaches and selected media representatives. Ronaldo scored 69 goals for Real Madrid and Portugal last year, and his stunning hat trick against Sweden in a decisive World Cup play-off was perhaps the defining individual performance.