The results of this voting were published on France Football # 3164 (28 November 2006).
There were 52 voters, from Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and Wales.
The columns are: Position Name of Player Name of Club Nationality Total Number of Points 1P = First Places 2P = Second Places 3P = Third Places 4P = Fourth Places 5P = Fifth Places Votes = Number of Voters who nominated this player
Pos Player Country Club Total 1P 2P 3P 4P 5P Votes
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1. Fabio Cannavaro Italy Juventus / Real Madrid 173 20 12 5 5 - 42
2. Gianluigi Buffon Italy Juventus 124 14 6 8 2 2 32
3. Thierry Henry France Arsenal 121 6 15 5 6 4 36
4. Ronaldo de Assis "Ronaldinho" Brazil FC Barcelona 73 2 5 6 10 5 28
5. Zinedine Zidane France Real Madrid / Retired 71 6 4 5 3 4 22
6. Samuel Eto’o Cameroon FC Barcelona 67 2 3 9 6 6 26
7. Miroslav Klose Germany Werder Bremen 29 - 1 4 4 5 14
8. Didier Drogba Ivory Coast Chelsea 25 - 1 3 5 2 11
9. Andrea Pirlo Italy Milan AC 17 - 2 1 2 2 7
10. Jens Lehmann Germany Arsenal 13 1 1 - 2 - 4
11. Anderson Luis de Sousa "Deco" Portugal FC Barcelona 11 - - 2 2 1 5
Ricardo Izecson Santos "Kaká" Brazil Milan AC 11 - - 1 2 4 7
13. Franck Ribéry France Olympique Marseille 9 - 1 - - 5 6
14. Gennaro Gattuso Italy Milan AC 5 1 - - - - 1
Patrick Vieira France Juventus / Internazionale 5 - 1 - - 1 2
Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Manchester United 5 - - 1 - 2 3
17. Frank Lampard England Chelsea 3 - - 1 - - 1
Lukas Podolski Germany 1.FC Koln / Bayern Munich 3 - - 1 - - 1
Carles Puyol Spain FC Barcelona 3 - - - - 3 3
20. Juninho Pernambucano Brazil Olympique Lyon 2 - - - 1 - 1
Lionel Messi Argentina FC Barcelona 2 - - - 1 - 1
Luca Toni Italy Fiorentina 2 - - - 1 - 1
John Terry England Chelsea 2 - - - - 2 2
Gianluca Zambrotta Italy Juventus / FC Barcelona 2 - - - - 2 2
25. Philipp Lahm Germany Bayern Munich 1 - - - - 1 1
David Villa Spain Valencia CF 1 - - - - 1 1
Eligible players who did not receive any votes:
Michael Ballack (Ger), Tim Cahill (Aus), Joe Cole (Eng), Grégory Coupet (Fra), Cris (Bra), Mahamadou Diarra (Mal),
Michael Essien (Gha), Francesc Fabregas (Spa), William Gallas (Fra), Steven Gerrard (Eng), Ludovic Giuly (Fra),
Fabio Grosso (Ita), Claude Makélélé (Fra), Florent Malouda (Fra), Edison Méndez (Ecu), Juan Riquelme (Arg),
Arjen Robben (Ned), Wayne Rooney (Eng), Willy Sagnol (Fra), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Ger), Andriy Shevchenko (Ukr),
Lilian Thuram (Fra), Tiago (Por), and Fernando Torres (Spa)
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