South American Footballer of the Year Award (Rey del Futbol de America)

In a nutshell: South America's premier football award, to the best footballer playing for one of the continent's clubs.
Awarded to: It's open to South American footballers playing for a South American club.
Voted by: The vote is conducted by Uruguayan newspaper El Pais, they poll around 500 journalists from 20 countries across the continent for their choices.
When: At the end of each calendar year.
Worth a mention: 1. The award was originally created in 1971 by El Mundo (a Venezuelan newspaper) and they ran it until 1992. However, in 1986 El Pais (the Uruguayan newspaper) created the Rey del Futbol de America (America's King of Football). Since then this has been considered the official award.
2. Its only supposed to be awarded to South American footballers playing for a South American club. The only exception to this was when El Mundo gave Mario Kempes the award in 1978, when he played in Spain for Valencia.