Overview of previous votes 1992-2004.
The vote for the fourteenth 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 2004: RONALDINHO, FC Barcelona, Brazil
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 1st of February at 00:00 CET (Central European Time) and the 28th 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 2005 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 (poy2005@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. You can assist in making compilation of the vote easier by cutting and pasting the actual player names from the list below into the form - then there is no doubt regarding who you are voting for. ---------------------------CUT HERE------------------------- VOTE FOR R.S.S PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2005 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 poy2005@AccessEconomics.com.au between February 1, 0.00 CET and February 28, 24.00 CET. ---------------------------CUT HERE------------------------- 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 (107 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 similar to that used last time, but may be amended for later votes. Serious suggestions on this are welcome but will have no effect for the 2005 vote. As for the 2004 vote, we have added an further check for the 2005 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 to 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 eligibility and limit multiple votes. For example, Mike Winter (first voter in 2004 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. Last year this category included a variety of persons from professional football journalists to members of the public. Eligibility Criteria All players fulfilling at least one of the conditions listed below are eligible for the 2005 vote: 1) Topscorer(s) (Golden Boot) and MVPs of each continental championship played in 2005: Concacaf 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 "2005 XI" not ranked among top 10 6) Onze-Mondial "XI of the Year" 7) Bravo Award Winner 8) IFFHS: Goalkeeper of the Year 2005, 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 2004/05 season club competitions) 10) Copa Libertadores 2005 - MVP 11) Nominees for Asian POY 2005 (total of 10) 12) Nominees for African POY 2005 (total of 5) 13) ESM Golden Boot Winner 14) Players from ESM-XI for the calendar year 2005 (Jan-Dec) 15) Women Players: top 5 from FIFA's POY poll 16) Confederations Cup: Top-3 MVPs + Golden Boot 17) FIFA U-20 World Cup: Top-3 MVPs + Golden Boot 18) FIFA U-17 World Cup: Top-3 MVPs + Golden Boot 19) FIFA Club World Championships: Top-3 MVPs Note that a request was made of the Oceania Football Confederation for a list of their 3 best players - but no response was received.
4. ELIGIBLE PLAYERS: In total 107 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 AGUERO Sergio Argentina AL JABER Sami Saudi Arabia AL MONTASHARI Hamad Saudi Arabia ALEX Rodrigo Dias da Costa Brazil ANDERSON Brazil ARAUJO Clémerson de Araújo Soares Brazil ARVELADZE Shota Georgia BALLACK Michael Germany BEASLEY DaMarcus United States BECKHAM David England BILOS Daniel Argentina BOLAŃOS Christian Coast Rica BUENO Carlos Uruguay BUFFON Gianluigi Italy CAFU Marcos Moraes Brazil CAMBIASSO Esteban Argentina CANNAVARO Fabio Italy CARRAGHER Jamie England CARVALHO Daniel Brazil CECH Petr Czech Republic CHAMAKH Marouane Morocco CICINHO Cicero Joăo de Cezare Brazil COLE Joe England COUPET Grégory France CRESPO Hernan Argentina CRIS Brazil DECO Anderson Luis da Sousa Portugal DIDA Nelson de Jesus Silva Brazil DOS SANTOS Giovanni Mexico DROGBA Didier Ivory Coast DUDEK Jerzy Poland ESSIEN Michael Ghana ETO'O Samuel Cameroon FORLAN Diego Uruguay GAGO Fernando Argentina GAMARRA Carlos Paraguay GARCIA Luis Spain GERRARD Steven England GUSTAVO Sá da NERY Brazil HENRY Thierry France IBRAHIMOVIC Zlatan Sweden JUNINHO PERNAMBUCANO Brazil KAKA Ricardo Izecson Santos Brazil KARIMI Ali Iran KLOSE Miroslav Germany LAMPARD Frank England LEE Young-Pyo South Korea LIEDSON Brazil LUCIO Brazil LUGANO Diego Uruguay MAKAAY Roy Netherlands MAKELELE Claude France MALDINI Paolo Italy MARCELINHO Marcelo Dos Santos Brazil MASCHERANO Javier Argentina MESSI Lionel Argentina MIKEL Jon-Obi Nigeria MONTELLA Vincenzo Italy NAKAMURA Shunsuke Japan NAKATA Hidetoshi Japan NEDVED Pavel Czech Republic NEKOUNAM Javad Iran NESTA Alessandro Italy OKOCHA Austin Nigeria PALACIO Rodrigo Argentina PARK Ji-Sung South Korea PIRLO Andrea Italy PUYOL Carles Spain RAUL González Blanco Spain REINA José Spain RIISE John-Arne Norway RIQUELME Juan Román Argentina ROBBEN Arjen Netherlands ROBERTO CARLOS da Silva Brazil ROBINHO Robson de Souza Brazil ROGERIO CENI Brazil RONALDINHO Ronaldo de Assis Moreira Brazil RONALDO Cristiano Portugal RONALDO Nazario de Lima Brazil ROONEY Wayne England SAGNOL Willy France SAHIN Nuri Turkey SHEVCHENKO Andriy Ukraine SHATSKIKH Maksim Uzbekistan TAIWO Taye Nigeria TEJADA Luis Panama TERRY John England TEVEZ Carlos Argentina TONI Luca Italy TREZEGUET David France VAN BOMMEL Mark Netherlands VAN DER VAART Rafael Netherlands VAN NISTELROOY Ruud Netherlands VELA Carlos Mexico VIEIRA Patrick France WILTORD Sylvain France XAVI Xavier Hernandez Creus Spain ZAMBROTTA Gianluca Italy ZAYED Mabrouk Saudi Arabia ZIDANE Zinedine France BOXX Shannon United States LINGOR Renate Germany LJUNGBERG Hanna Sweden MARTA Brazil PRINZ Birgit Germany Voting will run until the end of February 28 (as per Central European Time). We're looking forward to receiving your votes,
5. REGISTERED VALID VOTES: Valid votes have been received from: 1 Joh Lange 2 Michael Hynes 3 Miroslav Szacillo 4 Mark Van der ven 5 Victor Martins 6 Frank Ballesteros 7 Rafael Malaman de Araujo 8 Jose de Jesus Mora Rivera 9 Daniele Paserman 10 Julian Diaz Rubio 11 Peter Kronsteiner 12 Robert Lacombe 13 Dennis Nähring 14 Jaroslaw Owsianski 15 Mihai Adascalitei 16 Brunislav Matasovic 17 Werner Pichler 18 Iannis Papadoplous 19 Fabricio Sabbadini 20 Stephen Flanagan 21 Jose L. Couso 22 Matthijs Boers 23 Malik Riaz Hai Naveed 24 Almantas Lauzadis 25 Vitaliy Mazur 26 Douglas McNair 27 Flávio Nunes 28 Marco Mannino 29 Jesus Brignol Petry 30 Ariel Darío Sehr 31 Alfonso Criado Fernández 32 Ivan Bozov 33 Ryan Doran 34 Raul Zambrano 35 Peter Sokolowski 36 Hervé Dujardin 37 Gaurav Singh 38 Roberto Di Maggio 39 Paulo Martins 40 Nuno Duarte 41 Joăo Gameiro Pais 42 Nadir Genihou 43 Watson Waterstone 44 Marcin Fastyn 45 Simon Preston 46 Jorge Andrés González Aburto 47 Andrea Ferrigno 48 Joăo Varela 49 André do Nascimento Pereira 50 Walter García-Fontes 51 Jad Nawfal 52 Stephen Davies 53 Rodrigo Arias 54 Marcelo Leme de Arruda 55 Ivan Merchante 56 Barrie Courtney 57 Roee Lotan 58 Andrea Camporese 59 Paul Heath 60 Herve Dekeyne 61 Paulo ML Freitas 62 Suraia Dias 63 Bruno Dezzutti 64 Matthias Arnhold 65 Miguel Tel 66 Johan Karlsson 67 David Bedborough 68 Rui Silva 69 Razvan Toma 70 Vidar Jortveit 71 R Mehdi 72 Marijn Akerboom 73 Pierre Chapuis 74 Jaume Benedito 75 Lucas Scherer Cardoso 76 Tim Leidecker 77 Timóteo Seia 78 Jose Luis Pierrend 79 Karel Stokkermans 80 Marcello Perra 81 Myles Francis 82 Guy De Dekker 83 Grzegorz Zblewski 84 John Scoltock 85 Erik Francisco Lugo 86 Todd Roman 87 Paul Mettewie 88 John Barbudsen 89 Hyung-Jin Yoon 90 Joăo Diogo Reis 91 Dobre Claudiu-Cristian 92 Salvatore Basso 93 Javier Rivera 94 Ryan Luebben 95 Robert Sua 96 Pawel Terlecki 97 Thach Nguyen 98 Henry Kurniadi 99 Darryl Solin 100 Scotti Luigi 101 André Luiz Andrade Silva 102 Francesco Razzone 103 Anders Bjuhr 104 Fábio Marques 105 Gordon Tait 106 Eugenio Modesto 107 Oriol Braso 108 Germán Cabrejo 109 Ignacio Peńaloza 110 James Andrews 111 Alexander Mastrogiannopoulos 112 Evan Garcia 113 Andre Zlotkowski 114 Luis A. Blanco 115 Jussi Uosukainen 116 Ricardo Agusto Alonso 117 Davidson Fernandes Mota 118 Masafumi Sugano 119 Samir Mainuddin 120 David Martínez 121 Adan De Gracia 122 Joăo Nunes 123 Jirí Slavík 124 Fernando Espinoza Ańazco 125 David Lam 126 Jean Marc Fulcrand 127 Tamás Karakai 128 Martin M. 129 Miroslav Samák 130 Sergio Martin 131 Gabriele Marcotti 132 Henrik Lundgaard 133 David Fernández Caramazana 134 Expo Kwan 135 Filipe Lima Marinho 136 Manuel Anteliz 137 Daniel Gutierrez 138 Karim Moghaddam 139 Bruce Scott 140 Marcin Pierozynski 141 Pierre Ramier 142 Jackie Tellier 143 James Allnutt 144 Masanori "Komabano" Nakanishi 145 Alex Bakalas 146 David Naylor 147 Darojatun 148 Pourya Afandi 149 Soheil Fatollahpour 150 Armin Rex
6. RESULTS REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2005 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."Ronaldinho" FC Barcelona Brazil 71 14 17 9 2 482 2.Frank Lampard Chelsea FC England 16 31 19 9 2 281 3.Stephen Gerrard Liverpool FC England 12 12 15 14 10 191 4.Samuel Eto'o FC Barcelona Cameroon 4 13 16 15 5 155 5.Thierry Henry Arsenal FC France 4 7 8 7 5 91 6.Andriy Shevchenko Milan AC Ukraine 1 5 10 8 10 81 7."Adriano" Internazionale FC Brazil 3 5 4 3 5 58 8."Deco" FC Barcelona Portugal 3 4 5 2 3 53 9."Kaká" Milan AC Brazil 1 6 2 5 5 50 10.Rogerio Ceni Săo Paulo FC Brazil 5 2 3 2 2 48 11.Petr Cech Chelsea FC Czech Rep. 1 4 3 2 5 39 12.Zlatan Ibrahimovic Juventus FC Sweden 6 1 3 4 37 13.Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United FC Portugal 3 2 2 2 3 36 14.Lionel Messi FC Barcelona Argentina 4 2 4 3 33 15.Juan Román Riquelme Villarreal CF Argentina 1 3 6 5 30 16.Juninho Pernambucano Olympique Lyonnais Brazil 1 1 1 4 9 29 Carlos Tévez SC Corinthians Argentina 1 2 3 3 1 29 18.Didier Drogba Chelsea FC Ivory Coast 3 1 4 3 26 Jerzy Dudek Liverpool FC Poland 2 2 2 2 26 20.Paolo Maldini Milan AC Italy 2 2 4 3 25 21.Luca Toni AC Fiorentina Italy 1 1 5 5 24 22.Michael Ballack FC Bayern München Germany 4 3 3 21 Zinedine Zidane Real Madrid CF France 3 3 21 24.John Terry Chelsea FC England 1 5 5 20 25.Daniel Carvalho CSKA Moskva Brazil 1 1 2 4 19 "Cicinho" Real Madrid CF Brazil 2 3 1 19 27.David Beckham Real Madrid CF England 1 3 1 18 28.Wayne Rooney Manchester United FC England 1 1 2 2 17 Ali Karimi FC Bayern München Iran 2 1 1 1 17 30.Ruud van Nistelrooij Manchester United FC Netherlands 1 2 1 1 16 31.Birgit Prinz 1.FFC Frankfurt Germany 1 2 2 1 15 32.Mark van Bommel FC Barcelona Netherlands 2 1 14 33.Jamie Carragher Liverpool FC England 1 1 2 11 Carles Puyol FC Barcelona Spain 1 2 1 11 Arjen Robben Chelsea FC Netherlands 1 3 1 11 36.Ji-Sung Park Manchester United FC South Korea 1 1 1 10 37.David Trezeguet Juventus FC France 1 1 2 9 38.Sergio Agüero CA Independiente Argentina 1 1 8 Diego Lugano Săo Paulo FC Uruguay 1 2 8 Patrick Vieira Juventus FC France 2 8 "Xavi" FC Barcelona Spain 1 1 1 8 42.Esteban Cambiasso Internazionale FC Argentina 1 2 7 Michael Essien Chelsea FC Ghana 1 2 7 Miroslav Klose SV Werder Bremen Germany 1 1 7 Roy Makaay FC Bayern München Netherlands 1 1 7 Javad Nekounam Pas (Tehran) Iran 1 1 7 47."Alex" PSV Brazil 2 2 6 Shannon Boxx no club USA 1 1 6 "Marta" Umeĺ IK Brazil 1 1 1 6 "Robinho" Real Madrid CF Brazil 2 6 Luis Tejada Envigado FC Panama 2 6 52.DaMarcus Beasley PSV USA 1 5 Diego Forlán Villarreal CF Uruguay 2 1 5 "Lúcio" FC Bayern München Brazil 1 3 5 Shunsuke Nakamura Celtic FC (Glasgow) Japan 1 2 5 Pavel Nedved Juventus FC Czech Republic 1 2 5 "Raúl" Real Madrid CF Spain 1 5 Carlos Vela CA Guadalajara Mexico 1 1 5 59.Fabio Cannavaro Juventus FC Italy 1 1 4 Hernán Crespo Chelsea FC Argentina 1 1 4 Hanna Ljungberg Umeĺ IK Sweden 1 1 4 Claude Makéléle Chelsea FC France 4 4 63.Shota Arveladze AZ Georgia 1 1 3 "Cafu" Milan AC Brazil 1 3 "Marcelinho" Hertha BSC Berlin Brazil 1 3 Gianluca Zambrotta Juventus FC Italy 1 1 3 67."Araújo" Gamba Osaka Brazil 1 2 Daniel Bilos CA Boca Juniors Argentina 1 2 Young-Pyo Lee Tottenham Hotspur FC South Korea 1 2 Austin Okocha Bolton Wanderers FC Nigeria 2 2 "Ronaldo" Real Madrid CF Brazil 2 2 Rafael van der Vaart Hamburger SV Netherlands 1 2 73.Grégory Coupet Olympique Lyonnais France 1 1 "Cris" Olympique Lyonnais Brazil 1 1 Sami Al-Jaber Al-Hilal (Riyadh) Saudi Arabia 1 1 "Liedson" Sporting CP Brazil 1 1 Maksim Shatskikh Dynamo Kyiv Uzbekistan 1 1 The other 30 eligible players did not obtain any votes.
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Overview of previous votes 1992-2004.
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