Rec.sport.soccer Player of the Year 2000

The vote for the ninth annual REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR vote
is over. 31 days of voting have passed and 266 votes were processed.
Note, that this year, it has also been possible to vote through the World
Wide Web.

    Welcome back next year - from the 1st of January to the 31st of January
    in 2002 for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Player Of the Year 2001!


The contents of this article:
  1. Previous Winners.
  2. Rules.
  3. Results.
  4. Comments of the President of the RSSSF.
  5. Name of voters.
  6. Demographic analysis of the voters.
  7. Final Word



1. PREVIOUS WINNERS:
   1992:     MARCO VAN BASTEN, Milan AC, The Netherlands
   1993:     ROBERTO BAGGIO, Juventus FC, Italy
   1994:     ROMÁRIO, Flamengo, Brazil
   1995:     GEORGE WEAH, Milan AC, Liberia
   1996:     RONALDO, FC Barcelona, Brazil
   1997:     RONALDO, FC Internazionale, Brazil
   1998:     ZINEDINE ZIDANE, Juventus FC, France
   1999:     RIVALDO, FC Barcelona, Brazil



2. RULES

  The rules of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Player Of the Year vote is a modification
  of the rules used by France Football for their Player of the Year award.

  1. All valid votes have to submitted between the 1st of January at
     00:00 MET (Mid European Time) and the 31st of January at midnight MET.

  2. The vote, held each year, represents the calendar year which just
     ended at the time of the vote.

  3. Each vote must be sent to the Vote-taker or co-votetakers.

  4. The vote must be submitted on a form including the following information:
     Name of voter and his country of birth and country of residence.

  5. The rest of vote should list five players in order.

  6. No more than two players of the same nationality are allowed.

  7. A player needs to have been active during the preceding calendar year 
     to be eligible to vote for.



3. RESULTS

REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2000

The columns are:
   Position
   Name of Player
   Name of Club he is playing for (as official as possible, space limit)
   Nationality
   1P = First Places
   2P = Second Places
   3P = Third Places
   4P = Fourth Places
   5P = Fifth Places
   Total Number of Points

POS NAME                 CLUB                  COUNTRY      1P 2P 3P 4P 5P TOTAL
================================================================================
  1."Luís Figo"          Real Madrid CF        Portugal     67 42 31 18 16   648
  2.Zinedine Zidane      Juventus FC           France       41 38 37 26 15   535
  3."Rivaldo"            FC Barcelona          Brazil       17 20 19 18 14   272
  4.Andriy Shevchenko    Milan AC              Ukraine      16 22 15 21 12   267
  5.Gabriel Batistuta    AS Roma               Argentina    19 21 16  7 14   255

  6."Romário"            CR Vasco da Gama      Brazil       24 10 10  6 10   212
  7.David Beckham        Manchester United FC  England       7  8 16  8  5   136 
  8.Alessandro Nesta     SS Lazio              Italy         7  2  5  4 12    78   
  9.Thierry Henry        Arsenal FC            France        2  3  9  9  9    76 
 10.Patrick Kluivert     FC Barcelona          Netherlands   1 11  4  4  4    73
 
 11.Raúl González        Real Madrid CF        Spain         4  1  6  8 11    69
    Juan Román Riquelme  CA Boca Juniors       Argentina     2  9  4  3  5    69
 13.Gaizka Mendieta      Valencia CF           Spain         1  3  7  8  6    60
    Roberto Carlos       Real Madrid CF        Brazil        5  3  4  4  3    60
 15.Francesco Totti      AS Roma               Italy         1  3  6  8  6    57

 16.Ryan Giggs           Manchester United FC  Wales            4  2  3  4    32
 17.Juan Sebastián Verón SS Lazio              Argentina     2  1  1  5  2    29
 18.Mário Jardel         Galatasaray SK        Brazil        2  2  1  2  3    28
 19.Pablo César Aimar    CA River Plate [*]    Argentina     2  3        5    27
    Manuel Rui Costa     Fiorentina AC         Portugal      2  2  1  2  2    27

 21.Mateja Kezman        PSV                   Yugoslavia    1  1  5     2    26
    Martín Palermo       CA Boca Juniors       Argentina     1  1  3  4       26      
 23.Edgar Davids         Juventus FC           Netherlands      1  2  6  3    25
 24.Gheorghe Hagi        Galatasaray SK        Romania       2  1  2  1  1    23
 25.Tieme Klompe         SC Heerenveen         Netherlands   1  3  1          20

    "Ronaldo Assis"      Gręmio FBP            Brazil        2  1  1  1  1    20
    Zlatko Zahovic       Valencia CF           Slovenia         3  1  2  1    20   
 28.Claudio López        SS Lazio              Argentina        3  1  2       19
    Pavel Nedved         SS Lazio              Czech Rep.       1  3  1  4    19
    Ruud van Nistelrooij PSV                   Netherlands   3  1             19

    Francesco Toldo      Fiorentina AC         Italy         1     1  5  1    19
 32.Daniel Jensen        SC Heerenveen         Denmark       3     1          18 
    Hakan Sükür          FC Internazionale     Turkey           3     3       18
 33.Laurent Blanc        FC Internazionale     France        1  1  2     2    17
 34.Fabien Barthez       Manchester United FC  France              2  3  3    15

    Michael Owen         Liverpool FC          England       1  1  1  1  1    15
 37.Roy Keane            Manchester United FC  Ireland          1  2  1  2    14
    Paolo Maldini        Milan AC              Italy            2  1  1  1    14 
    Mika Nurmela         SC Heerenveen         Finland       2        2       14  
    Fernando Redondo     Milan AC              Argentina        2  1     3    14

 41.Javier Saviola       CA River Plate [*]    Argentina        2  1  1       13
 42.Oliver Kahn          FC Bayern München     Germany       2        1       12
 43.Didier Deschamps     Valencia CF           France        2                10
    Juninho Paulista     CR Vasco da Gama      Brazil           2     1       10
 45.Juan Pablo Angel     CA River Plate [*]    Colombia            2  1  1     9

    Roberto Baggio       Brescia Calcio        Italy         1     1     1     9
    Patrick Mboma        Parma AC              Cameroon            1  3        9
    Hans Vonk            SC Heerenveen         South Africa        3           9
 49.Nuno Gomes           Fiorentina AC         Portugal         1  1     1     8
    Henrik Larsson       Celtic FC             Sweden           1     1  2     8

    Marcelo Salas        SS Lazio              Chile               1  2  1     8
    Ebbe Sand            FC Schalke 04         Denmark          1  1     1     8
    Mehmet Scholl        FC Bayern München     Germany       1     1           8
    Teddy Sheringham     Manchester United FC  England          1  1     1     8
    Mark Viduka          Celtic FC             Australia     1        1  1     8

    Christian Vieri      FC Internazionale     Italy               2     2     8
 57.Marcus Allbäck       Örgryte IS [*]        Sweden                 2  3     7
    "Djalminha"          RC Deportivo (La C.)  Brazil           1  1           7
    Savo Milosevic       Parma AC              Yugoslavia    1        1        7
    Mart Poom            Derby County FC       Estonia          1     1  1     7

    Arek Radomski        SC Heerenveen         Poland           1     1  1     7
    Alvaro Recoba        FC Internazionale     Uruguay             1  2        7
    Edwin van der Sar    Juventus FC           Netherlands   1        1        7
    David Trezeguet      Juventus FC           France              1  2        7
 65.Emre Belözoglu       Galatasaray SK        Turkey              1  1  1     6

    Philip Cocu          FC Barcelona          Netherlands      1     1        6
    Sérgio Conceição     Parma AC              Portugal         1     1        6   
    Hernán Crespo        SS Lazio              Argentina        1     1        6
    Stefan Effenberg     FC Bayern München     Germany          1        2     6
    Giovane Élber        FC Bayern München     Brazil        1           1     6

    Jimmy F. Hasselbaink Chelsea FC            Netherlands            2  2     6
    Sami Hyypiä          Liverpool FC          Finland       1           1     6
    Filippo Inzaghi      Juventus FC           Italy            1     1        6
    Maxim Shastkikh      Dynamo Kyiv           Ukraine          1     1        6
 75.Pablo J. Bengoechea  CA Peñarol            Uruguay       1                 5
     
    Lee Bowyer           Leeds United FC       England       1                 5
    "Cafú"               AS Roma               Brazil        1                 5
    Estebán Cambiasso    CA Independiente [*]  Argentina     1                 5
    Rogério Ceni         São Paulo FC          Brazil        1                 5
    Jason De Vos         Dundee United FC      Canada        1                 5

    José Dos Santos      União                 East Timor    1                 5
    Laurent Etamé-Mayer  Arsenal FC            Cameroon            1  1        5
    Marco Etcheverry     DC United             Bolivia       1                 5
    Hamza Idriss Falatah Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)   Saudi Arabia  1                 5
    Todi Jónsson         FC Křbenhavn          Faroe Islands 1                 5

    Lothar Matthäus      NY/NJ MetroStars      Germany       1                 5
    Youri Nikiforov      PSV                   Russia              1  1        5
    Luc Nilis            Aston Villa FC        Belgium          1        1     5
    Ariel Ortega         CA River Plate        Argentina           1  1        5
    Zeljko Petrovic      RKC Waalwijk          Yugoslavia       1        1     5

    Anton Polster        SV Salzburg           Austria       1                 5
    Ulrich Ramé          FC Girondins Bordeaux France        1                 5
    Hege Riise           Asker [*]             Norway        1                 5
    Yegor Titov          Spartak Moskva        Russia        1                 5
 95.Frank de Boer        FC Barcelona          Netherlands         1     1     4

    Iker Casillas        Real Madrid CF        Spain               1     1     4
    Oscar Córdoba        CA Boca Juniors       Colombia         1              4
    Panayiotis Engomitis PAOK Thessaloniki     Cyprus           1              4
    Anthony Lurling      SC Heerenveen         Netherlands      1              4
    Steve McManaman      Real Madrid CF        England                2        4

    Jákup Mikkelsen      Herfřlge BK           Faroe Islands    1              4
    Jaime Moreno         DC United             Bolivia          1              4
    Erik Mykland         TSV 1860 München      Norway           1              4
    Mohammed Noor        Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)   Saudi Arabia     1              4
    Marc Overmars        FC Barcelona          Netherlands      1              4

    Walter Pandiani      RC Deportivo (La C.)  Uruguay          1              4
    Paul Scholes         Manchester United FC  England                2        4
    Kiatisuk Senamuang   Huddersfield Town [*] Thailand         1              4
    Ole-Gunnar Solskjær  Manchester United FC  Norway           1              4
    Paulo Sousa          SL Benfica            Portugal               2        4

    Jonathan Woodgate    Leeds United FC       England          1              4
    Gianfranco Zola      Chelsea FC            Italy            1              4
113.Mark Bosnich         Chelsea FC            Australia           1           3
    Victor Bulatov       Spartak Moskva        Russia              1           3
    Gastón Casas         Real Betis Balompié   Argentina           1           3

    Indrit Fortuzi       SK Tirana             Albania             1           3
    Sebastien Frey       FC Internazionale     France              1           3
    David Ginola         Aston Villa FC        France              1           3
    "Guti"               Real Madrid CF        Spain                  1  1     3
    Michael Mols         Rangers FC            Netherlands         1           3
    
    Aleksandr Mostovoi   RC Celta de Vigo      Russia              1           3
    Hidetoshi Nakata     AS Roma               Japan               1           3
    Ben Olsen            DC United             USA                 1           3
    Kevin Phillips       Sunderland FC         England                1  1     3
    Sergiy Rebrov        Tottenham Hotspur FC  Ukraine             1           3

    "Ronaldo"            FC Internazionale     Brazil              1           3
    Sérgio González      RCD Espanyol          Spain               1           3
    Alan Shearer         Newcastle United FC   England                1  1     3
    Tommy Smith          Watford FC            England             1           3
    Dragan Stojkovic     Nagoya Grampus Eight  Yugoslavia          1           3

    Lilian Thuram        Parma AC              France              1           3
    Gert Verheyen        Club Brugge KV        Belgium             1           3
    Dwight Yorke         Manchester United FC  Trinidad/Tobago     1           3
134.Faustino Asprilla    SE Palmeiras          Colombia               1        2
    Dennis Bergkamp      Arsenal FC            Netherlands               2     2

    Eyal Berkovic        Celtic FC             Israel                 1        2
    Cuauhtémoc Blanco    Real Valladolid CF    Mexico                 1        2
    Sol Campbell         Tottenham Hotspur FC  England                1        2
    José Luis Chilavert  RC Strasbourg         Paraguay               1        2
    Cristian Chivu       Ajax                  Romania                1        2

    Marcel Desailly      Chelsea FC            France                 1        2
    Paolo Di Canio       West Ham United FC    Italy                     2     2
    Youri Djorkaeff      1.FC Kaiserslautern   France                 1        2
    Dion Dublin          Aston Villa FC        England                1        2
    Joy Fawcett            no club             USA                    1        2

    Gerard               FC Barcelona          Spain                  1        2
    Steven Gerrard       Liverpool FC          England                1        2
    Iván Helguera        Real Madrid CF        Spain                  1        2
    Andreas Herzog       SV Werder Bremen      Austria                1        2
    Jan Koller           RSC Anderlecht        Czech Republic         1        2

    Alex Manninger       Arsenal FC            Austria                1        2
    Rafael Márquez       AS Monaco             Mexico                 1        2
    Clint Mathis         NY/NJ MetroStars      USA                    1        2
    Charlie Miller       Dundee United FC      Scotland               1        2
    Farid Mondragón      FC Metz               Colombia               1        2

    Paul Okon            Middlesbrough FC      Australia              1        2
    Marians Pahars       Southampton FC        Latvia                 1        2
    Emmanuel Petit       FC Barcelona          France                 1        2
    Peter Schmeichel     Sporting CP           Denmark                1        2
    Marcus Stewart       Ipswich Town FC       England                1        2
 
    Nawaf Al-Timiat      Al-Hilal (Riyadh)     Saudi Arabia           1        2
    Pierre Womé          Bologna FC            Cameroon               1        2
    Richard Wright       Ipswich Town FC       England                1        2
164.Bashar Abdullah      Salmiya               Kuwait                    1     1
    Alex Aguinaga        Necaxa                Ecuador                   1     1
    
    Yossi Benayoun       Maccabi Haifa         Israel                    1     1
    Jörg Böhme           FC Schalke 04         Germany                   1     1
    Toni Brogno          CS Sedan-Ardennes     Italy                     1     1
    Giovanni van Bronckhorst Rangers FC        Netherlands               1     1
    José Saturnino Cardozo   Toluca            Paraguay                  1     1

    Luke Chadwick        Manchester United FC  England                   1     1
    Fabien Cool          AJ Auxerre            France                    1     1
    Jorge Costa          FC do Porto           Portugal                  1     1
    Alessandro Del Piero Juventus FC           Italy                     1     1
    "Edmundo"            CR Vasco da Gama [*]  Brazil                    1     1

    Fabiano Euller       CR Vasco da Gama      Brazil                    1     1
    Néstor Fabbri        FC Nantes Atlantique  Argentina                 1     1
    Robbie Fowler        Liverpool FC          England                   1     1
    Paulo Futre                                Portugal                  1     1
    Jan van Halst        Ajax [*]              Netherlands               1     1

    Bo Hansen            Bolton Wanderers FC   Denmark                   1     1
    René Henriksen       Panathinaikos AO      Denmark                   1     1
    Emile Heskey         Leeds United FC       England                   1     1
    Gocha Jamarauli      FC Zürich             Georgia                   1     1
    "Juninho Pernambucano"   CR Vasco da Gama  Brazil                    1     1

    Zeljko Kalac         Roda JC               Australia                 1     1
    Amir Karic           Ipswich Town FC       Slovenia                  1     1
    Robbie Keane         Leeds United FC       Ireland                   1     1
    Harry Kewell         Leeds United FC       Australia                 1     1
    Russell Latapy       Boavista FC           Trinidad and Tobago       1     1

    Fredrik Ljungberg    Arsenal FC            Sweden                    1     1
    Tony Meola           Kansas City Wizards   USA                       1     1
    Pablo Montero        Juventus FC           Uruguay                   1     1
    Sebastián Morquio    Huracán (Bs.As.)      Uruguay                   1     1
    Catalin Munteanu     UD Salamanca          Romania                   1     1

    Demis Nikolaidis     AEK (Athinai)         Greece                    1     1
    Dennis de Nooijer    SC Heerenveen         Netherlands               1     1
    Gheorghe Popescu     Galatasaray SK        Romania                   1     1
    Milan Rapajic        Fenerbahçe SK         Croatia                   1     1
    Jeremy Rueter                              USA                       1     1

    Paulo Sérgio         FC Bayern München     Brazil                    1     1
    Trevor Sinclair      West Ham United FC    England                   1     1
    Claudio Sorín                                                        1     1
    Jaap Stam            Manchester United FC  Netherlands               1     1
    Naohiro Takahara     Jubilo Iwata          Japan                     1     1

    Youssouf Al-Thunayyan    Al-Hilal (Riyadh) Saudi Arabia              1     1
    Paul Trimboli        South Melbourne       Australia                 1     1
    Ivica Vastic         SK Sturm Graz         Austria                   1     1
    Iván Zamorano        Internazionale FC [*] Chile                     1     1
    Boudewijn Zenden     FC Barcelona          Netherlands               1     1

    Zé Roberto           Cruzeiro EC           Brazil                    1     1
    Sibosisu Zuma        FC Křbenhavn          South Africa              1     1

[*] changed club since end of 2000



4. Comments of the President

Some Reflections on the Vote
============================

With another record participation (266 voters, an increase of over 50% 
compared to last year, which itself had a 40% increase w.r.t. 1998 vote), 
the r.s.s voters have decided that France Football's journalists and
World Soccer's readers were closer to the truth than the national team
coaches voting for FIFA: Luis Figo was the best football player of 2000.  

It wasn't very close in the end, and very likely Figo would have won also 
if Zidane hadn't compromised his own chances with multiple red cards - 
indeed not the way to go about showing you're the best player in the world.

These two were far ahead of the rest, in which last year's winner, Rivaldo,
just pipped Shevchenko, Batistuta (sadly underrated in some other polls)
and Romario (back again!) for the bronze.  Each of them would have deserved
the honour.

As always, the top-15 reads as a who is who of world's soccer.  Interestingly
enough, the best 'keeper (Toldo) only appears at 19th, proof of the fact that
the r.s.s audience has not been impressed with recent goal-keeping standards;
last year's best 'keeper (Kahn) showed up poorly at the European championship,
albeit as the best in a very poor team (at shared 49th place, Mehmet Scholl
was the best German field player in the poll), and other contenders such
as Barthez, Chilavert and Van der Sar have had unconvincing spells as well.

In the demographic department, Brazil were joined as 'most common birth
country' among voters by Spain, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Unfortunately the Dutch group contained a 5-men small Heerenveen contingent
which made itself obvious in the lower echelons of the vote, but the power
of numbers ensured the overall result at the top is as expert a choice as
ever.  The USA once again were the most common country of residence, but 
the share of just over 11% among all voters is an all-time low - the 
internet is truly internet-ional by now...

Cheers,
Karel Stokkermans



5. The Names of the Voters.

(NB: in order in which they were counted, not in which they voted)

  1 Kent Hedlundh        
  2 Jose F. Otero       
  3 Neerasj Nundhoo Prithipal     
  4 Masafumi Sugano        
  5 Daniele Paserman      
  6 Guy De Dekker       
  7 Frederic Nias     
  8 Razvan Toma           
  9 Irineu Carvalho      
 10 Bojan Puric            
 11 Neil Evans            
 12 Jose Couso            
 13 Simon Gleave           
 14 Martin Mysona         
 15 Lionel Bonnet      
 16 Thomas Softing     
 17 Gwidon S. Naskrent   
 18 Almantas Lauzadis      
 19 Nicolas Bernard      
 20 Whiteside             
 21 Karel Stokkermans      
 22 Vlad Doob         
 23 Alex Bakalas         
 24 Oleg Vaynshtok     
 25 Sean Berretta       
 26 Yaniv Bleicher    
 27 Luis Blanco            
 28 Paul Apel              
 29 Heber Obregon        
 30 Igor Stourov           
 31 Emmanuel Castro Serna  
 32 André Pereira        
 33 George Wood       
 34 Kev Shackleton     
 35 Javier Roimiser    
 36 Frederico Dib      
 37 Paulo Fonseca         
 38 Antony Jordan          
 39 Igor Savelyev                                                          
 40 Gilvannewton Souza      
 41 Ruud Doevendans         
 42 Peter Young        
 43 Zdenek Martinek      
 44 Antonio Lago      
 45 Diego Antognazza       
 46 Javier Ortega       
 47 Priit Looper       
 48 Mikhail Cherny         
 49 Silviu Tanase      
 50 Luigi Scotti           
 51 Ole Svaerke       
 52 Marten Vrieswijk     
 53 Neil Morrison       
 54 Danko Ivosevic      
 55 Carlos Pessoa       
 56 Jordi Riu             
 57 Rodolfo Rodrigues  
 58 Ivan Zolotukhin      
 59 John Harding   
 60 John Scoltock     
 61 Fernando Espinoza      
 62 Jana Bartuschewitz 
 63 James Barrie           
 64 Stefan Krenn       
 65 Frodi Petersen      
 66 Felix Laya          
 67 Aldo Colombo    
 68 Tal Lessner           
 69 Peter Wolf         
 70 Saverio Giacchetti 
 71 Stefan Eghoj Hansen    
 72 Juan Rodriguez     
 73 Keith Mills           
 74 Guner Ozcosar          
 75 Vidar Jortveit       
 76 Martin Frühmann    
 77 Raul Ramirez       
 78 Rudy Boogert           
 79 David Seijas         
 80 Milad Niqui       
 81 Matthew Brotman    
 82 Mariano Ersettis     
 83 Sebastien Leconte      
 84 Marco Mannino       
 85 Milan Petrijan        
 86 Frank van den Broek   
 87 Macario Reyes      
 88 Valentín Pablo Morante
 89 Roger Elliott          
 90 Johan Karlsson        
 91 Alan Brown             
 92 Morio Hatano          
 93 Simon Preston        
 94 Sébastien Duret       
 95 Erdinc Sivritepe   
 96 Dirk Göhmann          
 97 Max Cottray           
 98 Ivan Brosboel          
 99 Fernando Pellitero   
100 Sener Yelkinci        
101 Rafael Ramos        
102 Darojutan              
103 Muhammad Ali Sahin   
104 Toine Brekelmans      
105 Alex Mastro         
106 Fernando Souza         
107 Michael Kogler     
108 Alfonso Criado Fernandez 
109 Alisher Nikimbaev    
110 Igor Bratic          
111 Andre Zlotkowski      
112 Michael Vraney        
113 James Rath             
114 Euan Shepherd      
115 Gerhard Öhlinger    
116 Marcelo Souza      
117 Annabel Gimenez        
118 Fernando Peron     
119 Eduardo Sousa       
120 Jan Alsos             
121 Tero Kekki             
122 Sylvain Leconte        
123 Duan Stokes         
124 Adam Öggesjö        
125 Jose Durao          
126 Mehdi Dahak          
127 Marc Riu               
128 Andrew Hsieh        
129 David Carmichael      
130 Adrie Franssen        
131 Sercan Okyay           
132 Ruud Verlinden         
133 Bruno Cano            
134 Raúl Torre             
135 Phil Lythell          
136 Joakim Eriksson     
137 Alejandro Acosta       
138 Scott Ferguson        
139 Artur Cerqueira       
140 Pascal Rissewijck     
141 David Martínez       
142 Marcello Perra        
143 Jaume Ramon          
144 Antonio Ramos          
146 Erin Burgess         
147 Dag Magnus Ring       
148 Sylvain Richard    
149 Mas Seno             
150 Mike Aivalis           
145 Sergio Rzeszytkowski   
151 Javier Oregrev     
152 Christian Grolig      
153 Ronnie Grant           
154 Donal Cullen          
155 Jorge Santos           
156 Evgeny Grigoryv        
157 Karol Pesck           
158 Oshebeng Alpheus Koonyaditse 
159 Gérard Brousse     
160 Arthur Drigant        
161 Jose Maria Munoz Crespo
162 Jose Antonio Alcobendas 
163 Marcin Musiolik   
164 Andrea De Vecchi   
165 Alexandre Solamini    
166 Valter Sasatani       
167 Cassiano Ricardo Gobbet 
168 Christophe Labbe       
169 Igor Jokic           
170 Ivo Dobkevitsch       
171 Cristiano Fortini 
172 Niccola Renda         
173 Daniel Schiebert  
174 Gaguik Ghalatchian 
175 Adriano Stabile     
176 Yuri Rodriguez     
177 Carlos Martín Costa   
178 Pablo Lanene           
179 Carlos Soares        
180 Gokhan Cinar         
181 Paulo Freitas       
182 Stephen Davies         
183 Jordan Harper        
184 Hoodh Ali           
185 Jorrit Oppewal       
186 Milan Jekic         
187 Max Ikedah             
188 Timothy Guillemin   
189 Joao Goncalves         
190 José Angélico          
191 Victor Sánchez     
192 Ricardo Brecha         
193 Morten Hauskov      
194 Martin Coronel    
195 Natanael Duarte      
196 Ally Macleod   
197 Raúl Salas           
198 Rodrigo Valdebenito   
199 Luca Auriemma     
200 Alejandro Wenceslao García Zapata 
201 Steven Rietveld  
202 Vasco Manuel Viana de Freitas Corujo
203 Rastko Cvekic          
204 José Luis Pierrend    
205 Marcos David Scheffer 
206 Gonzalo Prado         
207 Rui Silva             
208 Dabiel Eduardo Cabrera 
209 Dilson Filho        
210 Jeremy Rueter         
211 Martin Sykora         
212 Andrea Camporese    
213 Espen Christer Endal 
214 Jan Aap                
215 Jos de Vries          
216 Ruben Heetebrij       
217 Marcelo Silva      
218 Mario Asciuti       
219 Juan Rico              
220 Adam Clay            
221 Serge Shepeleff      
222 Djalma Vasconcelos Jr.  
223 Wim Matthijs       
224 Pedro Marin           
225 Peter Frey            
226 Christian Antonelli   
227 Abdulla Abdullatif   
228 Anouk van Veldhuizen   
229 Mannus Dik        
230 Symen de Vries    
231 Marc Scheers   
232 John Smith           
233 Gerard Ypma          
234 Richard Bos           
235 Mohd Abdul          
236 Giuliano Sarno        
237 Pedro Arrondo         
238 Andrés Pérez         
239 Lincoln Chan      
240 Henning Andersen      
241 Bandar Alshaalan      
242 Jason Anderson        
243 Paul Pacheco        
244 Eric Raay            
245 Stephen Matthias       
246 David Bedborough      
247 Kerem Kolukisa        
248 Pedro Aires           
249 Dan Knights            
250 Andrea Veronese    
251 Dan Boone             
252 Mario Asciuti      
253 Carlos Barazal     
254 Tom Olsson         
255 Teppo Lehtipuu         
256 Leon Abramovich    
257 Taede-Hans Alzerda   
258 Alexandre Barreiro   
259 Jim Smith           
260 David Delgado  
261 André Duncan           
262 David Shannon       
263 Eugene Rubashkin     
264 Douglas William Green  
265 Ikenna P. Ibe        
266 Scott Olesen       



6. Demographic analysis.

Birth

Algeria             1
Andorra             2
Angola              1
Argentina          13
Australia           1
Austria             6
Belgium             3
Brazil             23
Canada              6
Chile               2
Colombia            1
Costa Rica          1
Croatia             3
Cyprus              1
Czech Republic      1
Denmark             6
Dutch Antilles      1
Ecuador             1
Faroe Islands       1
Finland             2
France              9
Germany             4
Grenada             1
Hungary             1
Indonesia           2
Iran                1
Ireland             4
Israel              2
Italy              17
Japan               3
Luxembourg          1
Maldives            1
Mexico              3
Netherlands        23
Nigeria             1
Norway              5
Peru                1
Poland              3
Portugal            6
Puerto Rico         1
Romania             2
Saudi Arabia        2
Slovenia            1
South Africa        2
Soviet Union       16 (Armenia 1, Estonia 3, Lithuania 1, Russia 7, Ukraine 2,
                       not specified 2)
Spain              23
Sweden              4
Switzerland         3
Turkey              3
UAE                 1
United Kingdom     23 (England 7, Scotland 7, Wales 2, not specified 7)
Uruguay             3
USA                16
Yugoslavia          2

Residence

Andorra             2
Argentina          13
Armenia             1
Australia           1
Austria             6
Belgium             3
Brazil             23
Canada             12
Chile               2
China               1
Colombia            1
Croatia             2
Cyprus              1
Czech Republic      1
Denmark             7
Ecuador             1
Estonia             3
Finland             2
France             10
Germany             4
Greece              1
Hungary             1
Indonesia           2
Ireland             1
Israel              5
Italy              15
Japan               2
Lithuania           1
Luxembourg          1
Maldives            1
Mexico              3
Netherlands        23
New Zealand         1
Norway              5
Peru                1
Poland              2
Portugal            7
Romania             2
Russia              6
Saudi Arabia        3
Slovenia            1
South Africa        2
Spain              21
Sweden              4
Switzerland         2
Turkey              4
UAE                 1
United Kingdom     19 (England 5, Scotland 6, Wales 2, not specified 6)
Uruguay             2
USA                30
Uzbekistan          1



7. FINAL WORD


    A big THANKS to everyone who voted and please vote again next year!
    Also a special mention to Pawel for his assistance.



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