His performance on the pitch is undoubtedly impressive, but Cristiano Ronaldo can now add another accolade to his list of achievements.

The Portuguese striker has scored a goal with European women, who voted him the sexiest player of the current Euro 2008 tournament.

German website Spiegel Online reported that the 23-year-old Manchester United star topped the poll of 12,000 women, which was conducted on behalf of electronics company LG.

“Unfortunately for his legions of female fans [Ronaldo] is no longer available,” the Spiegel Online article continued.

“He’s dating Spanish model Nereida Gallardo.”

Other footballers to make the cut included France’s Thierry Henry and Germany’s captain Michael Ballack.

Euro 2008’s sexiest footballers:

1: Cristiano Ronaldo

2: Thierry Henry

3: Fabio Cannavaro

4: Freddie Ljungberg

5th= Michael Ballack, Luca Toni and Iker Casillas

The sight of record scorer Thierry Henry sitting on the bench throughout France’s 0-0 draw against Romania on Monday will only add to coach Raymond Domenech’s injury problems at the European Championship.

Already missing captain Patrick Vieira as he recovers from a small thigh tear, Domenech now has to hope Henry is also fit in time to face the Netherlands in Friday’s Group C match.

With defender Willy Sagnol looking short of match fitness against the Romanians, France could have trouble containing the quick Dutch forwards.

It is the first time the 30-year-old Henry suited up for France but didn’t start the match since a home friendly against Slovakia on March 1, 2006.

Both Henry and Vieira have played in France’s last five major competitions.

Domenech does not comment specifically on medical matters, but Henry has not trained properly since leaving midway through Thursday’s practice session. Domenech only said that Henry had picked up a knock against Colombia.

Domenech’s decision to play a friendly against the tough-tackling Colombians on the eve of France’s departure to Switzerland must be called into question. In that match, winger Franck Ribery had to have an ice-pack strapped to his right ankle after some heavy challenges.

On the eve of the 2006 World Cup, France lost Djibril Cisse to a broken leg in a friendly against China.

Henry, France’s record scorer with 44 goals, started all seven of his country’s games in that competition. He made his 100th international appearance in Tuesday’s friendly against Colombia at Stade de France, which finished in a 0-0 draw.

Troubled by sore hamstrings and a sciatic nerve for the past two seasons, Henry has been a shadow of his glory days with Arsenal, when he regularly scored close to 30 goals a season. He managed only 17 in all competitions this season for FC Barcelona, although he was played out of position at times on the left wing.

Nicolas Anelka took Henry’s place in attack with 20-year-old striker Karim Benzema, who scored 31 goals in his first full season at Lyon.

It was Anelka’s first start in an international at a major tournament since the Euro 2000 semifinals against Portugal, where he set up Henry’s goal. Benzema was playing his first match in a major competition.

Neither looked impressive and the French were shut down relatively easily.

Luca Toni, Italy
After top-scoring in the Bundesliga with FC Bayern München and hitting ten more to end up as the 2007/08 UEFA Cup’s most prolific striker along with Pavel Pogrebnyak of FC Zenit St. Petersburg, Azzurri fans will be expecting Toni’s goal spree to continue here. Toni must produce if the FIFA World Cup holders are to get out of a demanding Group C.

Jan Koller, Czech Republic
Baroš will hope to hold on to his award but his compatriot Koller could succeed him having been scoring at international level for over nine years. The big man’s record of 54 goals in 87 appearances for his country is phenomenal, as is his consistency: he scored six goals in UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifying – just as he did in 2000 and 2004.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
Ronaldo may play on the wing for Portugal but he is still their greatest goal threat and comes into the tournament in the form of his life. The 23-year-old struck 42 goals this season, top-scoring in the UEFA Champions League and English Premier League for Manchester United FC and after finding the target in Moscow against Chelsea FC is desperate to make his mark on another big occasion.

Miroslav Klose, Germany
Germany have been tipped to go far at UEFA EURO 2008™ and that should give the FC Bayern München striker ample chance to add to the 39 goals he has already scored for his country at a rate of over one every two games. Klose is the only player in history to score five or more goals in successive FIFA World Cups, but is yet to score at a UEFA European Championship.

Thierry Henry, France
Fresh from playing his 100th game for Les Bleus, Henry will be keen to put a difficult first season with FC Barcelona behind him. His partnership with rising star Karim Benzema has set French pulses racing and though the youngster has been hogging the headlines of late, France’s record scorer shows no sign of giving up centre stage just yet.

Euzebiusz Smolarek, Poland
Smolarek’s nine goals in qualifying is more than any other player at these finals with David Healy’s Northern Ireland having missed out and Eduardo da Silva suffering injury. That has taken his overall international tally from four to 13, and it seems likely that the Real Racing Club Santander striker, who drew a blank at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, will be able to emulate his father Włodzimierz in scoring at a major finals.

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Netherlands
Having patched up his differences with coach Marco van Basten, Van Nistelrooy will be eager to make the most of this opportunity. Injury kept him out of the side for much of Real Madrid CF’s run-in but he is coming into form. He scored in four consecutive games for club and country up to his strike in the 1-1 draw with Denmark on 29 May, which took him up to 31 Netherlands goals - nine short of all-time leader Patrick Kluivert.

Fernando Torres, Spain
After Torres’s formidable first season with Liverpool FC, Spain fans have every reason to look ahead to UEFA EURO 2008™ with confidence. The question is, can their midfield provide the ammunition in such devastating style as Steven Gerrard does at Anfield?

Nihat Kahveci, Turkey
After more than one season of injury frustration, the Turkey forward struck 23 Villarreal CF goals in 2007/08 and also contributed vital strikes in qualifying for his nation. Good enough for Fatih Terim to leave out folk hero Hakan Şükür.

Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden)
“He’s probably one of the best forwards today,” says Sweden coach Lars Lagerbäck of Ibrahimović. The return of Henrik Larsson will ease some of the goalscoring burden on the 26-year-old FC Internazionale Milano striker who scored 17 times for FC Internazionale Milano last season.