The vote for the first annual REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR vote is over. 31 days of voting have passed and I have processed 59 votes. The contents of this article: Distribution of this post Results Names of Voters Demographic analysis (split into two parts) A. Country of Origin B. Country of today (i.e. from where the letters were sent)
This article will be distributed to the following: DISTRIBUTION LIST FOR REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR The USENET newsgroup Rec.Sport.Soccer The WINNER of the Vote for this Year (1992) Magazines: France Football L'Equipe World Soccer Guerin Sportivo Kicker Voetbal International Sport und Toto Soccer International (US) Soccer America
REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR 1992 The rules used: Each voter gave five players in order of which at most two could be from the same country. (A slight modification from the France Football rules, mainly due to the fact that many people at the net have double loyalties) The columns are: Name of Player Name of Club he is playing for (as official as possible, space limit) Nationality FP = First Places SP = Second Places Total Number of Points PLAYER CLUB NATIONALITY FP SP TOTAL --------------------------------------------------------------------- Marco van Basten Milan AC Netherlands 29 8 207 Hristo Stoitchkov FC Barcelona Bulgaria 7 8 87 Peter Schmeichel Manchester United Denmark 1 7 62 Brian Laudrup AC Fiorentina Denmark 2 4 52 Raí FC São Paulo Brazil 1 6 46 Frank Rijkaard Milan AC Netherlands 4 1 39 Dennis Bergkamp Ajax Netherlands 2 3 36 Jean-Pierre Papin Milan AC France 2 2 30 Bebeto Deportivo La Coruña Brazil 1 2 25 Thomas Hässler AS Roma Germany 2 25 Michael Laudrup FC Barcelona Denmark 1 20 Ally McCoist Rangers FC Scotland 2 20 Abedi Pelé Olympique Marseille Ghana 2 1 17 Romário PSV Brazil 1 17 Lothar Matthäus FC Bayern München Germany 1 1 14 Roberto Baggio Juventus FC Italy 1 12 Paul Gascoigne SS Lazio England 2 12 Ronald Koeman FC Barcelona Netherlands 1 11 Tomas Brolin Parma AC Sweden 9 Stéphane Chapuisat Borussia Dortmund Switzerland 1 8 Rune Bratseth Werder Bremen Norway 1 7 Alan Shearer Blackburn Rovers England 1 7 Georges Weah Paris Saint Germain Liberia 1 7 Roberto Mancini Sampdoria UC Italy 1 6 Diego Maradona Sevilla FC Argentina 1 6 Franco Baresi Milan AC Italy 5 Steve Bull Wolverhampton Wand. England 1 5 Paolo Futre Atlético Madrid Portugal 5 Roy Keane Nottingham Forest Ireland 1 5 Gianluca Pagliuca Sampdoria UC Italy 5 Giuseppe Signori SS Lazio Italy 1 5 Gordon Strachan Leeds United Scotland 1 5 Chris Waddle Sheffield Wednesday England 1 5 Diego Fuser SS Lazio Italy 1 4 Enzo Scifo AC Torino Belgium 4 Rudi Völler Olympique Marseille Germany 1 4 Peter Beardsley Everton England 3 Andrzej Juskowiak Sporting CP Lisboa Poland 3 Andreas Köpke 1.FC Nürnberg Germany 3 Steve McManaman Liverpool FC England 3 Miller Matheson Stenhousemuir Scotland 3 Igor Shalimov FC Internazionale Russia 3 Des Walker Sampdoria UC England 3 Ryan Giggs Manchester United Wales 2 Gianluigi Lentini Milan AC Italy 2 Artilio Lombardo Sampdoria UC Italy 2 Paolo Maldini Milan AC Italy 2 Brian McClair Manchester United Scotland 2 Jamie Redknapp Liverpool FC England 2 Peter van Vossen RSC Anderlecht Netherlands 2 Jan Wouters Bayern München Netherlands 2 Vítor Baía FC Porto Portugal 1 Eric Cantona Manchester United France 1 Ricardo Gomes Paris Saint Germain Brazil 1 Mark Hateley Rangers FC England 1 Jürgen Kohler Juventus FC Germany 1 Bixente Lizarazu Girondins Bordeaux France 1 Corenthin Martins AJ Auxerre France 1 Pawel Mlynarski Brantford Polonia USA 1 Müller FC São Paulo Brazil 1 Roland Nilsson Sheffield Wednesday Sweden 1 Flemming Povlsen Borussia Dortmund Denmark 1 Brian Roy Foggia The Netherlands 1 Stefan Sultana Hamrun Spartans Malta 1 Eric Wynalda 1.FC Saarbrücken USA 1
* means that the person in question has acknowledged their Country of Origin. NAME Voting number Christopher S. Allen 1* Timothy James Hatfield 2* Swarajsingh Horree 3* Kent Hedlundh 4* David Akkarach 5* Ken Shadlen 6* Jacques Robin 7* Francis A-Akoto 8* Dada Eboreime 9* Mohammad Azzam 10* Mikhail V. Solodov 11* Adrian Weissman 12* Andreas K. Traem 13* Thomas Esamie 14* Rui Ponte 15* Francis J. Pakes 16* Vassil Peytchev 17* Karel Stokkermans 18* Ally Hume 19* Julie Scallon 20* Garry Fraser 21* Serge Pasche 22* Bjornar Steinbakken 23* Richard de Beijer 24* Dan Mallon-Kraft 25* Pierre Crosland 26* Fernando Manuel Vasconcelos 27* Luiz Alberto 28* Loris Magnani 29* Alex Amsel 30* Mark Coker 31* Manuel Balmaseda 32* Dana Andersen 33* Michael From Soerensen 34* Chris Kimball 35* Pawel Mlynarski 36* Ian Smith 37* Dag-Ole Nervik 38* Ahmad On 39 Georgy Ganev 40* Tsiel Ohayon 41* Rainer Freis 42* Marcus Lindroos 43* Steinar Laag 44* Fred Weimin Yan 45* Frederico Ruggiero 46* Dan Sammartino 47* Dobrin Kolev 48* Joo T. Tan 49* Tim Van Der Avoird 50* Veit Irtenkauf 51* Marco Andreoni 52* Andy Liu 53* Rene Pfortner 54* Iskander Ayari 55* Jukka-pekka Kesonen 56* Tai Wai Cheung 57* John Rodriguez 58* Peter Miles 59*
DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS: Country of Origin USA 7 Netherlands 5 England 4 Germany 4 Bulgaria 3 Finland 3 France 3 Norway 3 Scotland 3 Australia 2 Italy 2 Portugal 2 Sweden 2 Antilles 1 Brazil 1 Canada 1 China 1 Denmark 1 Lebanon 1 Nigeria 1 Poland 1 Romania 1 Russia 1 Singapore 1 Spain 1 Switzerland 1 Thailand 1 Tunisia 1 Country current living in USA 28 England 5 Finland 4 Australia 3 Netherlands 3 Norway 3 France 2 Austria 1 Brazil 1 Canada 1 Denmark 1 Germany 1 Israel 1 Japan 1 Portugal 1 Scotland 1 Sweden 1 Switzerland 1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Vote-taker: Kent Hedlundh
Design of R.S.S. certificate: Russell D. Campbell
Special thanks to Karel Stokkermans for his support (i.e. writing
introduction letter and checking my counting)
Kent, Votetaker
Prepared and maintained by Kent Hedlundh for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Kent Hedlundh (kenth@cs.umu.se)
Last updated: 3 Feb 2002
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