The results of this voting were published on France Football # 2750 (22 December 1998).
There were 51 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, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales and Yugoslavia.
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. Zinedine Zidane France Juventus 244 45 4 1 - - 50
2. Davor Suker Croatia Real Madrid 68 1 5 7 9 4 26
3. Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima Brazil Internazionale 66 - 8 6 5 6 25
4. Michael Owen England Liverpool 51 - 3 7 6 6 22
5. Vitor Barbosa Ferreira "Rivaldo" Brazil FC Barcelona 45 1 6 4 1 2 14
6. Gabriel Batistuta Argentina Fiorentina 43 1 2 6 4 4 17
7. Lilian Thuram France Parma 36 - 5 4 1 2 12
8. Edgar Davids Netherlands Juventus 28 - 4 - 4 4 12
Dennis Bergkamp Netherlands Arsenal 28 - 3 2 3 4 12
10. Marcel Desailly France Chelsea 19 - 2 2 2 1 7
11. Frank de Boer Netherlands Ajax 17 - 1 2 3 1 7
12. Emmanuel Petit France Arsenal 16 - 1 3 1 1 6
13. Roberto Carlos da Silva Brazil Real Madrid 13 - 2 - 2 1 5
14. Laurent Blanc France Olympique Marseille 11 - 1 1 2 - 4
Fabien Barthez France AS Monaco 11 - 1 - 1 5 7
16. Alessandro Del Piero Italy Juventus 10 1 - 1 1 - 3
Predrag Mijatovic Yugoslavia Real Madrid 10 - - 2 2 - 4
18. Didier Deschamps France Juventus 9 1 - - 2 - 3
Oliver Bierhoff Germany Milan AC 9 - 2 - - 1 3
20. Michael Laudrup Denmark Ajax 6 1 - - - 1 2
21. Ronald de Boer Netherlands Ajax 4 - 1 - - - 1
Raúl González Spain Real Madrid 4 - - 1 - 1 2
23. Brian Laudrup Denmark Chelsea 3 - - 1 - - 1
Clarence Seedorf Netherlands Real Madrid 3 - - 1 - - 1
Marc Overmars Netherlands Arsenal 3 - - - 1 1 2
26. Christian Vieri Italy Lazio Roma 2 - - - 1 - 1
Fernando Hierro Spain Real Madrid 2 - - - - 2 2
28. David Beckham England Manchester United 1 - - - - 1 1
Luis Enrique Martínez Spain FC Barcelona 1 - - - - 1 1
Bixente Lizarazu France Bayern Munich 1 - - - - 1 1
Nikos Mahlas Greece Vitesse Arnhem 1 - - - - 1 1
Eligible players who did not receive any votes:
Tony Adams (Eng), Roberto Baggio (Eng), Zvonimir Boban (Cro), Fabio Cannavaro (Ita),
Denilson de Oliveira (Bra), Tore-Andre Flo (Nor), Adrian Ilie (Rom), Filippo Inzaghi (Ita),
Robert Jarni (Cro), Hidetoshi Nakata (Jap), Pavel Nedved (Cze), Sunday Oliseh (Nig),
Ariel Ortega (Arg), Gianluca Pagliuca (Ita), Marcelo Salas (Chi), David Seaman (Eng),
Andriy Shevchenko (Ukr), Juan Sebastián Verón (Arg) and Iván Zamorano (Chi)
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