Overview of previous votes 1992-2003.
The vote for the thirteenth annual REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR is over. The contents of this article: 1. Previous Winners. 2. Rules and Voting Form. 3. Changes w.r.t. Previous Votes. 4. Eligible Players. 5. Registered Valid Votes. 6. Results.
1. PREVIOUS WINNERS: 1992: MARCO VAN BASTEN, Milan AC, The Netherlands 1993: ROBERTO BAGGIO, Juventus FC, Italy 1994: ROMÁRIO, CR 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 2000: LUIS FIGO, Real Madrid CF, Portugal 2001: MICHAEL OWEN, Liverpool FC, England 2002: RONALDO, Real Madrid CF, Brazil 2003: PAVEL NEDVED, Juventus FC, Czech Republic
2. RULES AND VOTING FORM:
The rules of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Player Of the Year vote are 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 2nd of February at
00:00 CET (Central European Time) and the 22nd of February at
midnight CET.
2. The vote, held each year, represents the calendar year which just
ended at the time of the vote.
3. Eligibility for the 2004 vote is determined by the vote committee.
A full list of eligible players as well as the criteria used to
select them can be found below.
For voting, use the form below and send it in one e-mail to James
Allnutt (poy2004@AccessEconomics.com.au) . Complete the form by filling
in any 5 of the eligible players listed under item 4 below in order;
also add your name, e-mail address, country of birth, country of
residence and voting eligibility. Any additional comments can be added
below the vote but may be ignored. Incomplete forms are invalid.
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VOTE FOR R.S.S PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2004
Name:
E-mail address:
Country of residence:
Country of birth:
Voting eligibility:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Additional comments (optional):
NB: send this form to poy2004@AccessEconomics.com.au
between February 2, 0.00 CET and February 22, 24.00 CET.
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You should receive notification of a successful vote within
48 hours (barring mail server problems). You may vote only
once; any second vote will be ignored. Votes listing ineligible
players will be rejected; you will be notified of rejection
at the first time of submitting an invalid vote, but not at
any later attempts.
3. CHANGES W.R.T. PREVIOUS VOTES:
Due to the concerted attempts in the recent votes of promoting relatively
unknown players of a certain club or country, restrictions on eligibility
of players for the vote were introduced for the 2003 vote.
Only players from the list below will be eligible for voting. Note that
the list is pretty long (121 names) and the top-5 players of any serious
choice should definitely be among it, as we have made the criteria for
eligibility (see below) pretty wide. The list of criteria below is
provisional for this year, and may amended for later votes.
Serious suggestions on this are welcome but will have no effect for
the 2004 vote.
Participation of Voters
In addition, we have added an further check for the 2004 vote to assist in
determining the eligibility of voters. There are four types of eligibility.
A: Members of RSSSF
B: Past voters for the RSS POY
C: Contributors to the USENET newsgroup Rec.Sport.Soccer or the RSSSF website
D: All other persons
The organisers do not wish to limit the ability of interested persons to
contribute their honest opinion to the vote. However, as noted in previous
years, this vote is organised for the readers of the USENET newsgroup
Rec.Sport.Soccer and the visitors of the RSSSF website. It is NOT aimed at
the general public. The voter eligibility criteria attempts to ensure this
occurs.
Voters in the first three categories will be accepted fairly readily once
sensible checks have been made. Some advice on how to ensure your vote is
included is included below.
Category A: Including your name will be sufficient. For example, Karel
Stokkermans' vote would be included under this criteria.
Category B: Including another (preferably most recent) year that you voted
(and using the same name you used then in your entry) allows us
to check your eligibilty and limit multiple votes. For example,
Victoria Elisabeth Barrett (first voter in 2003 POY vote) would
be eligible under this criteria.
Category C: Including your email address (or equivalent) will allow us to
check whether you do contribute to the newsgroup or website.
For example, Ben Smith would be eligible under this criteria -
and it should allow people who haven't voted before to contribute.
Category D: All other persons. Anybody else may contribute. However, the
organisers reserve the right to exclude votes if, in our opinion,
there has been an attempt to bias the vote in a way that defeats
the spirit of the vote. It is our hope that this does not occur,
and that all otherwise eligible votes will be included.
A further note on filling out the form.
Those voters with different countries of birth and residence are requested
to note which they consider to be 'their country' (however, they may choose
to consider that) by adding an asterix (*) to that country. This is purely
for statistical purposes. Those voters who consider a third country to be
'their country' can add that if they wish.
Eligibility Criteria
All players fulfilling at least one of the conditions listed below
are eligible for the 2004 vote:
1) Topscorer(s) (Golden Boot) and MVPs of each continental
championship played in 2004: Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, South
America
2) Players that scored at least 1 point in France's Football Ballon
d'Or
3) Players that scored at least 1 point in FIFA's POY poll
4) Top 10 from World Soccer Player of the Year
5) Top 10 from El Pais, South America POY + players nominated on the
"2004 XI" not ranked among top 10
6) Onze-Mondial "XI of the Year"
7) Bravo Award Winner
8) IFFHS: Goalkeeper of the Year 2004, World's Top Goalscorer ("A"
games + continental/intercontinental club competitions), World's
Best Top Division Goalscorer
9) UEFA MVPs (general and by field position) of the 2003/04 season
club competitions)
10) Nominees for Asian POY 2004 (total of 3)
11) Nominees for African POY 2004 (total of 5)
12) ESM Golden Boot Winner
13) Copa America 2004 XI
14) Euro 2004 All-Star Selection (23 players)
15) Players from ESM-XI for the calendar year 2004
16) Women Players: top 5 from FIFA's POY poll (total of 6)
4. ELIGIBLE PLAYERS:
In total 121 players are eligible to be voted for.
NB: clubs are not listed below, women players are shown together at the end
of the list.
ADEBAYOR Emmanuel Togo
ADRIANO Ribeiro Leite Brazil
AYALA Roberto Argentina
BALLACK Michael Germany
BARAJA Ruben Spain
BAROS Milan Czech Republic
BECKHAM David England
BRIDGE Wayne England
BUENO Carlos Uruguay
BUFFON Gianluigi Italy
CAFU Marcos Moraes Brazil
CAHILL Tim Australia
CAMPBELL Sol England
CANNAVARO Fabio Italy
CARDOZO José Paraguay
CARVALHO Ricardo Portugal
CASILLAS Iker Spain
CASSANO Antonio Italy
CECH Petr Czech Republic
CHARISTEAS Angelos Greece
CHEYROU Bruno France
CICINHO Cicero João de Cezare Brazil
COLE Ashley England
DAEI Ali Iran
DECO Anderson Luis da Sousa Portugal
DELLAS Traianos Greece
DIDA Nelson de Jesus Silva Brazil
DROGBA Didier Ivory Coast
ELANO Elano Blumer Brazil
ESSIEN Michael Ghana
ETO'O Samuel Cameroon
EVRA Patrice France
FERDINAND Rio England
FERREIRA Paulo Portugal
FIGO Luis Portugal
FRANCILEUDO Silva dos Santos Tunisia
GALAZ Patricio Chile
GERRARD Stephen England
GIGGS Ryan Wales
GILARDINO Alberto Italy
GIULY Ludovic France
GONZALEZ Andres Colombia
GONZALEZ Luis Argentina
HENAO Juan Carlos Colombia
HENRY Thierry France
HUBAIL A'ala Bahrein
IBRAHIMOVIC Zlatan Sweden
ISMAEL Valerien France
JULIO CESAR de Espinola Brazil
KAHN Oliver Germany
KAKA Ricardo Izecson Santos Brazil
KANOUTE Frederic Mali
KARIMI Ali Iran
LAMPARD Frank England
LARSSON Henrik Sweden
LEO Leonardo Lourenço Bastos Brazil
LUGANO Diego Uruguay
LUISAO Luiz da Silva Brazil
MAKAAY Roy Netherlands
MALDINI Paolo Italy
MANICHE Ribeiro Portugal
MANUEL PABLO Garcia Spain
MASCHERANO Javier Argentina
MBOMA Patrick Cameroon
McCARTY Benedict South Africa
MELLBERG Olof Sweden
MICOUD Johan France
MISTA Miguel Angel Spain
MOKHTARI Youssef Morocco
MORENO Tressor Colombia
MORIENTES Fernando Spain
NAKAMURA Shunsuke Japan
NEDVED Pavel Czech Republic
NESTA Alessandro Italy
NIKOPOLIDIS Antonios Greece
OKOCHA Austin Nigeria
OWEN Michael England
PALACIOS Roberto Peru
PIRES Robert France
PIRLO Andrea Italy
PUYOL Carles Spain
RAUL Gonzales Blanco Spain
REYES Jose Antonio Spain
ROBBEN Arjen Netherlands
ROBERTO CARLOS da Silva Brazil
ROBINHO Robson de Souza Brazil
RONALDINHO Ronaldo de Assis Moreira Brazil
RONALDO Cristiano Portugal
RONALDO Nazario de Lima Brazil
ROONEY Wayne England
ROTHEN Jerome France
SCHIAVI Rolando Argentina
SEEDORF Clarence Netherlands
SEITARIDIS Giourkas Greece
SHEVCHENKO Andriy Ukraine
SORIN Juan Pablo Argentina
SOSA Marcelo Uruguay
TERRY John England
TEVEZ Carlos Argentina
THURAM Lilian France
TOMASSON Jon Dahl Denmark
TOTTI Francesco Italy
TOURE Kolo Ivory Coast
VALDES Victor Spain
VALERON Juan Carlos Spain
VAN BRONCKHORST Giovanni Netherlands
VAN NISTELROOY Ruud Netherlands
VICENTE Rodriguez Spain
VIEIRA Patrick France
VITOR BAIA Vitor Manuel Martins Baia Portugal
XAVI Xavier Hernandez Creus Spain
ZAGORAKIS Theodoros Greece
ZAMBROTTA Gianluca Italy
ZANETTI Javier Argentina
ZIDANE Zinedine France
HAMM Mia United States
LILLY Kristine United States
LJUNGBERG Hanna Sweden
MARTA Brazil
PRINZ Birgit Germany
WAMBACH Abby United States
Voting ran until the end of February 22 (as per Central European Time).
5. REGISTERED VALID VOTES: Valid votes have been received from: 1 Mike Winter 2 Nadir Genihou 3 Vidar Jortveit 4 Ivan Bozov 5 Daniele Paserman 6 Kent Hedlundh 7 Jussi Uosukainen 8 Johan Karlsson 9 Julien Binette 10 Barrie Courtney 11 Rui Silva 12 Dennis Nähring 13 Ali Mohseni 14 Michael Hynes 15 Roberto di Maggio 16 James Allnutt 17 Scotti Luigi 18 Ali Borhan 19 Eduardo Biscayart 20 Grant Flowers 21 Victoria Barrett 22 Vitaliy Mazur 23 Marcel Haisma 24 William Nyikuli 25 Werner Pichler 26 Jesus Brignol Petry 27 Eugene Rubashkin 28 Henrik Lundgaard 29 John Knapp 30 Roee Lotan 31 Miguel Tel 32 Malik Riaz Hai Naveed 33 Masanori "Komabano" Nakanishi 34 Fernando Espinoza Añazco 35 Salvatore Basso 36 Alexander Mastrogiannopoulos 37 Sergio Martin 38 Matthijs Boers 39 Raúl Hugo Ramírez 40 James Farrar 41 Walter García-Fontes 42 Neerash Nundhoo Prithipal 43 Giuseppe Claudio Doronzo 44 Elko Tchernev 45 André do Nascimento Pereira 46 Dragoljub Jovanovic 47 Brunislav Matasovic 48 Nino di Vaio 49 Natalino Dias 50 John Barbudsen 51 Martín Tabeira 52 Bernd Timmermann 53 Franco Valdevies 54 Frédéric N. 55 Yevgeniy Shtutin 56 Damir Jovanovic 57 Frank Blekkenhorst 58 Arunava Chaudhuri 59 Mark Vander Ven 60 Pieter Veroeveren 61 Mohamed Rami 62 Fábio Marques 63 Ryan Luebben 64 Douglas McNair 65 Mihai Adascalitei 66 Jorge Gonzalo Osanz 67 Sergei Solomin 68 Michael D. Lokshin 69 Jorge Andrés González Aburto 70 Tim Leidecker 71 R Mehdi 72 Andrew Whiteside 73 Jean Luc Piccard 74 Hosein Khosravi 75 Rafael Alegre 76 Hoshang Roozbahani 77 Osman Portokal 78 Flávio Nunes 79 John Mamvete 80 Jan de Jong 81 Alexandre Silveira Limeira 82 Jeremy van Lint 83 Juan Iglesias 84 Matthias Bettag 85 Fernando Peron 86 Martin Sykora 87 Carlos Chainho 88 Peter Falkirk 89 Francisco Libânio Pullig 90 Valeria Jimenez Diaz 91 David Bedborough 92 Hichem Benloucif 93 Jonathan Wilson 94 Gerardo Franchi 95 Matthias Arnhold 96 John Scoltock 97 Almantas Lauzadis 98 João Varela 99 Eduardo Cacella 100 João Gameiro Pais 101 Michael Fountoukides 102 José Mora 103 Paulo ML Freitas 104 Francisco Javier Zevallos Montesinos 105 Marcelo Leme de Arruda 106 Kevin Antunes 107 Peter Kronsteiner 108 Sandro Palmeira 109 António Bubacar Jaló 110 Condé Francisco 111 Patrick Lesimple 112 William Persaud 113 Erik Francisco Lugo 114 Sean Steward 115 Tania Ribeiro 116 Robert Lacombe 117 Mats Lindström 118 Moacir Dalpiaz de Souza 119 Woon Wei 120 Klaus Tienaho 121 Sondre Zachariassen 122 Hervé Dujardin 123 Suraia Dias 124 Iannis Papadoplous 125 Guy Oliver 126 Simon Preston 127 Perry Menexis 128 Rui Mestre 129 Gabriel Poloniecki 130 Matias Poloniecki 131 Peter Barnes 132 Steven Roads 133 Clark McInnes 134 Karel Stokkermans 135 Marijn Akerboom 136 Jad Nawfal 137 Kevin Johnson 138 Jose Ramirez 139 Nigel O'Leary 140 Julien Garcia 141 Phil Cunningham 142 Ralph Maier 143 Paul Apel 144 Stefan Rüllig 145 Jose L. Couso 146 Alex Bakalas 147 Rodrigo Arias 148 Erol Kahraman 149 Fabrice Saicon 150 Julio Tavaz 151 Luis Sarmento 152 Marcel Malherbe 153 Paul Mettewie 154 Paul Heath 155 Stephen Davies 156 Javier Rivera 157 Luis A. Blanco 158 Jirí Slavík 159 Ivan Kvasnica 160 Petr Starý 161 Rodrigo Soares 162 Marco Lopes 163 Ryan Doran 164 Jose Durao 165 Justin Gaetz 166 José Luis Pierrend 167 Thach Nguyen 168 Razvan Toma 169 Paulo Martins 170 Tamás Karakai 171 Miroslaw Szacillo 172 Dinant Abbink 173 Davide Rota 174 Daniel Grison 175 Marcello Perra 176 Adriaan Bol 177 Vincent Leon 178 Lars Aarhus 179 Gaurav Singh 180 Marcelo Rosa de Souza 181 Masafumi Sugano 182 Axel Fries 183 Piotr Banasiak 184 Nuno Filipe Doria Reis 185 Ilari Koivisto 186 Injoon Hyung 187 German Cabrejo 188 Luca Barbero 189 Andrea Ferrigno 190 Jean Foliguet 191 Renat Aimaletdinov 192 Evan Garcia 193 Tim Hooper 194 Pawel Terlecki 195 Timóteo Seia 196 Quek Wei Schen 197 Nima Arshi 198 Bruce Scott 199 Irineu Carvalho 200 Marcin Pierozynski 201 Bojan Puric 202 Rafael Malaman de Araujo 203 Sheridan Elliot
6. RESULTS
REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2004
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
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1."Ronaldinho" FC Barcelona Brazil 48 27 20 11 7 437
2.Andriy Shevchenko Milan AC Ukraine 28 28 16 11 7 329
3."Deco" FC Barcelona Portugal 29 19 17 11 8 297
4.Thierry Henry Arsenal FC France 12 18 17 16 6 221
5."Adriano" Internazionale FC Brazil 7 12 20 8 8 167
6.Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United FC Portugal 15 11 7 6 5 157
7.Carlos Tévez CA Boca Juniors Argentina 1 7 6 12 10 85
8.Pavel Nedved Juventus FC Czech Rep. 4 3 12 7 82
9.Frank Lampard Chelsea FC England 5 4 4 7 8 75
10.Wayne Rooney Manchester United FC England 6 2 5 4 10 71
11.Luís Figo Real Madrid CF Portugal 4 6 6 2 2 68
12.Samuel Eto'o FC Barcelona Cameroon 2 4 5 5 8 59
13.Ricardo Carvalho Chelsea FC Portugal 2 4 2 7 5 51
14.Arjen Robben Chelsea FC Netherlands 4 2 2 7 2 50
15.Angelos Charisteas Ajax Greece 3 3 4 6 45
16."Kaká" Milan AC Brazil 3 3 8 7 44
17.Milan Baros Liverpool FC Czech Rep. 2 2 2 5 9 43
18.Benny McCarthy FC Porto South Africa 1 4 3 4 4 42
19.Zinedine Zidane Real Madrid CF France 3 3 3 2 1 41
20.Theodoros Zagorakis Bologna FC Greece 3 1 3 2 6 38
21."Robinho" Santos FC Brazil 1 4 1 1 1 27
22.Ruud van Nistelrooij Manchester United FC Netherlands 3 1 4 3 26
23."Maniche" FC Porto Portugal 2 1 1 3 2 25
24.Iker Casillas Real Madrid CF Spain 2 1 3 1 24
Stephen Gerrard Liverpool FC England 2 1 3 1 24
26.Gianluigi Buffon Juventus FC Italy 4 1 1 2 23
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Juventus FC Sweden 1 2 4 5 23
28.Traianos Dellas AS Roma Greece 1 3 1 6 22
29.Didier Drogba Chelsea FC Ivory Coast 1 1 6 2 21
30.Fernando Morientes Real Madrid CF Spain 1 3 2 3 20
31.Petr Cech Chelsea FC Czech Rep. 2 1 1 4 17
John Terry Chelsea FC England 1 2 2 3 17
Francesco Totti AS Roma Italy 1 2 1 1 17
34.Giourkas Seitaridis FC Porto Greece 1 2 1 4 16
35.Paulo Ferreira Chelsea FC Portugal 1 2 1 1 14
Henrik Larsson FC Barcelona Sweden 1 1 2 3 14
"Ronaldo" Real Madrid CF Brazil 1 2 1 2 14
38.Ali Karimi Al-Ahli (Dubai) Iran 2 1 1 13
Roy Makaay FC Bayern München Netherlands 1 1 2 1 13
"Vicente" Valencia CF Spain 1 1 2 2 13
NB: clubs listed as of end December 2004
41.Alberto Gilardino Italy 1 1 1 2 12
Mia Hamm USA 2 2 12
Robert Pires France 1 2 1 12
44.Ali Daei Iran 2 1 11
Juan Carlos Henao Colombia 2 1 1 11
46.Vítor Baía Portugal 1 1 1 1 10
47.Carlos Bueno Uruguay 1 1 1 9
Patrizio Galaz Chile 2 1 9
Ludovic Giuly France 2 5 9
Antonios Nikopolidis Greece 1 2 1 9
51.Antonio Cassano Italy 1 1 8
Paolo Maldini Italy 1 2 8
"Roberto Carlos" Brazil 4 8
54.Michael Ballack Germany 1 2 7
David Beckham England 1 1 7
Ryan Giggs Wales 1 1 7
Birgit Prinz Germany 3 1 7
58.Emmanuel Adebayor Togo 1 1 6
Ashley Cole England 1 1 1 6
Valérien Ismael France 1 1 6
61.Roberto Ayala Argentina 1 5
Johan Micoud France 1 5
Andrea Pirlò Italy 1 5
"Raúl" Spain 1 5
65."Dida" Brazil 1 4
Javier Mascherano Argentina 1 4
Austin Okocha Nigeria 1 2 4
Abby Wambach USA 1 4
69.Fabio Cannavaro Italy 1 3
Luis González Argentina 1 3
Kristine Lilly USA 1 3
Hanna Ljungberg Sweden 1 1 3
"Luisão" Brazil 1 3
"Marta" Brazil 3 3
Alessandro Nesta Italy 1 1 3
Carles Puyol Spain 1 1 3
Jon Dahl Tomasson Denmark 1 1 3
"Xavi" Spain 1 3
79.Rubén Baraja Spain 1 2
Tim Cahill Australia 1 2
"Elano" Brazil 1 2
Francileudo dos Santos Tunisia 1 2
Diego Lugano Uruguay 1 2
Shunsuke Nakamura Japan 2 2
Patrick Vieira France 1 2
86."Cafu" Brazil 1 1
"Cicinho" Brazil 1 1
Oliver Kahn Germany 1 1
Michael Owen England 1 1
Jérôme Rothen France 1 1
Kolo Touré Ivory Coast 1 1
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Overview of previous votes 1992-2003.
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