The original 23-man shortlist of players for the 2013 FIFA Ballon d’Or award have been reduced to 3. (Messi, Ronaldo and Ribery). So, who takes away the prestigious gong? Is it Franck Ribery who inspired Bayern to the 2013 UEFA Champions League victory and recently helped the team to an emphatic 7-0 win away to Bremen; Barcelona’s Lionel Messi who although sidelined with injury and has won a couple of awards for himself this year (Pichichi and European Golden Shoe), or Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid hitmaker, who helped his country qualify for the 2014 World Cup finals last month? The winner will be announced in January 2014 at Zurich.