The Golden Ball for Portugal's Golden BoyCristiano Ronaldo should win the Golden Ball. The Ballon d'Or is the most prestigious individual award a footballer can obtain. The award is given to the best player of the previous calendar year and is voted on by both coaches and national team captains. Cristiano Ronaldo is by far the most complete player to grace the club and the international scene in the last year and this is just one of hundreds of reasons why he deserves the most coveted award in world football. The fact that Ronaldo is such a complete footballer is agreed by many journalists, players and coaches around the world. An example of this is well documented in a Firstpost.Sports article that asks the question, "What's wrong with Cristiano Ronaldo?" and that for the Ballon d'Or, Ronaldo can be "The only choice". Ronaldo has been the most complete player in the last year and is well supported by the statistics that show how he has scored; 9 with his head, 4 from free kicks, 7 penalties, 19 with his right foot and 16 with his left foot, accumulating a whopping 55 goals in one season. Furthermore, this season he has scored 3 more from headers, 2 from free kicks, 6 from penalties, 11 from right-footed shots and 3 from left-footed shots. The most incredible thing about the last stats mentioned is that he has produced such a varied and incredible amount of goals and it's only December. The statistics it produces are sometimes frightening. In addition to the incredible amount of goals scored for his club, Real Madrid, Ronaldo quickly "single-handedly" dragged Portugal through the group stage and a decisive match against Sweden. , at the World Cup. This was achieved on an evening where he saved one of his best Portuguese performances for the biggest stage possible. After drawing the first leg 1-1 (scoring Portugal's only goal), Cristiano and his teammates had the difficult task of traveling to Sweden to face Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his teammates in an all-or-nothing match in which the winner would advance to the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. Ronaldo did what he does best. A masterclass in clinical finishing and team leadership was delivered by arguably the greatest player to ever play the game, producing a marvelous hat-trick.