According to the Daily Mail, UEFA - the European football governing body - changed their traditional 4-3-3 UEFA Team of the Year setup to a 4-2-4 to accommodate Cristiano Ronaldo. This is because Lionel Messi, Sadio Mane and Robert Lewandowski were the three forwards with the most votes, with Ronaldo finishing fourth. The changes made to include Ronaldo are reportedly responsible for the one week delay of the Team of the Year publication. Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante paid the price for Ronaldo's inclusion as he was the midfielder with the third most votes, and was stricken off given the new 4-2-4 formation. As reported by the Daily Mail, a source told them: "This is really not good. It is effective vote rigging. Ronaldo's popularity is so great at UEFA that alarms sounded when they saw the results. "For that reason, they changed the XI." A UEFA spokesperson has explained that the change in formation was to accommodate Ronaldo d
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