With the Ballon d’Or winner (it was Cristiano Ronaldo, if you missed it) finally announced on Monday evening after the most excruciatingly boring Twitter countdown from France Football, we finally have the breakdown of the votes from the magazine itself.
Eleven players from the 30 nominated failed to pick up any points, including Tottenham’s Hugo Lloris, meaning they end up ‘unranked’, or joint 20th.
The first Premier League player on the list was West Ham’s Dimitri Payet, who picked up one point and came joint 17th alongside Real Madrid stars Toni Kroos and Luka Modric.
Picking up just the one point meant Slaven Bilic’s star man was third on someone’s list, and that someone was Togo’s very own Mathias Ayena, journalist for Radio Lomé. 
The Manchester United midfielder came 2nd in the list of Cape Verde journalist André Amaral and was placed third best player in the world by Eritrea’s Michael Seium.
His new Red Devil teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic came 13th with five points, with a 2nd place from Eritrea, and two third placed votes from Kenya and United Arab Emirates.
Then come the Leicester duo Jamie Vardy and Ryad Mahrez in 8th and 7th respectively.
While Riyad Mahrez, who picked up 20 points, got votes from Bahrein, Senegal, Cambodia, Cameroon, Jordan, Gambia, Yemen and a 1st placed vote in Mauritius, the votes for Jamie Vardy’s points were a bit more left-field.
The Leicester City striker, who took the Premier League by storm last season and helped the club to a surprise title win, was voted as the best player of 2016 by Vanuatu, picked up a second place vote from Fiji, while Antigua and Barbuda, Ukraine and Turkey all put him in third spot.
Who did the English journalist vote for, we hear you ask? Henry Winter from The Times went for the exciting trio of Cristiano Ronaldo first, Lionel Messi second and Antoine Griezmann third.
Yawn… 😉
