The best goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and forward in last season's UEFA Champions League have been revealed.
Champions League positional awards:
Goalkeeper: Keylor Navas (Real Madrid)
Defender: Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)
Midfielder: Luka Modrić (Real Madrid)
Forward: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, now Juventus)
Positional award nominees for the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League season
Goalkeepers: Alisson Becker (Roma, now Liverpool), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, now Paris), Keylor Navas (Real Madrid)
Defenders: Marcelo (Real Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Raphaël Varane (Real Madrid)
Midfielders: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Luka Modrić (Real Madrid)
Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, now Juventus), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
What are these awards?
These accolades were introduced last year to recognise the season's best player in each position in Europe's premier club competition.
Last season's winners
Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
Defender: Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)
Midfielder: Luka Modrić (Real Madrid)
Forward: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
How the players were shortlisted
The jury comprised the coaches of the 32 clubs in the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League group stage, together with 55 journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) group, representing each of UEFA's member associations. Coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams.
Jury members chose their top three players per position, with the first receiving five points, the second three and the third one. The three players who got the most points in each category made up the final shortlist.
Egypteanu
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Congratulations Navas, in my opinion Navas is much better than overrated Courtois...
Swagat23
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Who else realized? While showing Navas's highlights,they showed Ramos's handball vs Dortmund at first
BidemiKlint
139
Congratulations eruku captain
BAPPSPAULO
133
congrats
Hahabdinyz
130
Varane, Modric or Marcelo deserves to win ahead of Ramos, how can you rate someone who always play like a wrestler in football. He plays so rough despite being a good defender. Now l see kisses go by favor!!!
IndikaAsiriSR4
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Dominance Level : Real Madrid! 🔥🔥💪💪
12UnitedGuy
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All the UEFA positional awards so far has been won by Real Madrid players excepts last years best goalkeeper(won by Buffon) This shows the level of dominance Real Madrid has over Football up till now considering they are the only team to have won it consecutively since it was renamed and they did it for three seasons straight and they where also the first club to win it back to back and they did it for the first five seasons the competition was introduced and they have the most UCL glories (13) almost double that of Ac Milan (7) who sits second in the ranking I now really think Real Madrid to be engraved somewhere in the UCL trophy as a sign of respect to Real Madrid they are just extraordinary when it comes to international competition and those are just some of they titles the hold regarding this competition to say the least Hala Madrid
Vishaldrall
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I think its uefa madrid awards.