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#2 Franck Ribéry (2013)
Franck Ribery may have beaten Messi and Ronaldo to the UEFA Player of the Year award, but he was ranked third behind the duo in the 2013 Ballon d'Or, despite having won the treble with Bayern Munich by the end of that season.
Ribery netted 10 goals and tallied 15 assists in a Bundesliga campaign that saw Bayern Munich lose only one game all season. The German giants won their 23rd league title by a margin of 25 points after netting a staggering 98 goals during the campaign.
The winger played a pivotal role in the club's Champions League success as well, demonstrated most notably by his performance in Bayern's 7-0 rout of Barcelona in the semi-finals of the competition. His exploits proved to be crucial as the Bundesliga champions went on to defeat their arch-rivals Borussia Dortmund in the final. The club then completed a spectacular treble by winning the DFB Pokal by beating Stuttgart.
After notching up 22 goals and 18 assists in all competitions and winning a treble with Bayern Munich, Ribery still fell short of eventual winner Ronaldo, who won no titles with Real Madrid, but netted 66 goals in 56 games.
