FIFA handed out its awards for 2014 on Monday and in addition to the winners, the world governing body also unveiled which way every single voter leaned (SEE ALL THE VOTES HERE FOR BALLON D'OR and COACH OF THE YEAR).
Current national team coaches, current national team captains and "special journalists (limited to one journalist per country)" had a vote with each group carrying an equal weight of one third of the final election. Their ballots handed the 2014 FIFA Ballon d'Or to Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid and 2014 FIFA Men's Coach of the Year award to Germany's World-Cup winning coach Joachim Low.
Time to see how the US and Canadian contingents voted when it came to the Player of the Year award. Only Canada captain Julian de Guzman didn't have eventual winner Ronaldo on his top 3:
Jurgen Klinsmann (US national team head coach):
1. Manuel Neuer, 2. Cristiano Ronaldo, 3. Arjen Robben
Clint Dempsey (US national team captain):
1. Cristiano Ronaldo, 2. Lionel Messi, 3. Thomas Mueller
Paul Kennedy (Soccer America, US journalist):
1. Cristiano Ronaldo, 2. Lionel Messi, 3. Philipp Lahm
Benito Floro (Canada national team head coach):
1. Cristiano Ronaldo, 2. Sergio Ramos, 3. Arjen Robben
Julian de Guzman (Canadian national team captain):
1. Thomas Mueller, 2. Manuel Neuer, 3. Arjen Robben
Neil Davidson (Canadian Press, Canadian journalist):
1. Cristiano Ronaldo, 2. Thomas Mueller, 3. Lionel Messi
It's worth noting that USMNT manager Klinsmann was among 10 names on the shortlist for the 2014 Men's Coach of the Year and he did receive a handful of votes in the end from 12 of the 544 voters.
He got some CONCACAF love with first-place votes from the captain and coach from both Anguilla and the Bahamas as well as the national team coach from Guyana.
The lone media vote for Klinsmann was a 2nd-place selection by the journalist from Eritrea, while the US boss got third-place nods from Republic of Ireland and LA Galaxy captain Robbie Keane and his counterpart in Chad, as well as the coaches from Belarus, Germany (his former assistant Low), Bhutan and Vanuatu.
