© Getty Images One former European champion losing a long streak and two others extending their invincibility feature in FIFA.com’s latest stats review, along with an indefatigable Englishman, an expensive Brazilian and a conquering Colombian.
23 years after Carlos Valderrama became the last Colombia-based player to win the South American Football of the Year award, Miguel Borja became the next. The 23-year-old forward scored 19 times in 21 games for Cortulua, breaking Jackson Martinez’s record for goals in a single campaign, before joining Atletico Nacional, whom he inspired to Copa Libertadores glory and converted the penalty that seized them bronze at the FIFA Club World Cup. Borja finished 2016 with 39 goals in 51 appearances and pipped Brazilian Gabriel Jesus to the award by just nine votes – the shortest margin since Juan Sebastian Veron edged Juan Roman Riquelme by three in 2008. Teofilo Gutierrez became the second Colombian to win the award two years ago, but he was with Rive..
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