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#1 Won the Champions League
If you look at the recent Ballon d'Or votings, you'll understand that a great amount of emphasis is placed on Europe's elite competition. The continental tournament holds, perhaps, the biggest weight when it comes to dictating who the award goes to.
Ronaldo won it in the last 2 years and he had won the Champions League in those seasons. In the season before that, Barcelona won the Champions League and Lionel Messi won the Ballon d'Or. In the season before that, Real Madrid won the Champions League and Cristiano Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or.
As you can see, it is clear that the Champions League title holds way more weight than domestic glory and given that Ronaldo has won the Champions League title while being up to his usual antics and scoring goals for fun, it looks like Ronaldo is way ahead of his competitors in the Ballon d'Or race.
