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.
THIS VOTE IS COURTESY OF
REC.SPORT.SOCCER STATISTICS FOUNDATION
BROUGHT TO YOU
by
Kent HEDLUNDH STOKKERMANS Karel
Vice-President of the RSSSF President of the RSSSF
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Author: Kent Hedlundh (kenth@cs.umu.se)
Last updated: 31 Jan 2002
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