The vote for the third annual REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR vote is over. 31 days of voting have passed and I have processed 99 votes. The contents of this article: Distribution of this post Results Remarks of the RSSSF President 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) Previous Winner(s): 1992: MARCO VAN BASTEN, Milan AC, The Netherlands 1993: ROBERTO BAGGIO, Juventus FC, Italy
DISTRIBUTION LIST FOR REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR The USENET newsgroup Rec.Sport.Soccer The WINNER of the Vote for this Year (1994) 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 1994 The rules used: Each voter gave five players in order of which at most two could be from the same country. 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 PO NAME CLUB COUNTRY 1P 2P 3P 4P 5P TOTAL =============================================================================== 1."Romário" Flamengo Brazil 24 22 15 6 4 269 2.Hristo Stoitchkov FC Barcelona Bulgaria 19 26 11 9 4 254 3.Paolo Maldini Milan AC Italy 12 10 15 5 3 158 4.Gheorghe Hagi FC Barcelona Romania 9 10 6 11 6 131 5.Roberto Baggio Juventus FC Italy 9 3 8 8 4 101 6.Jürgen Klinsmann Tottenham Hotspur FC Germany 4 4 7 4 8 73 7.Gabriel Batistuta AC Fiorentina Argentina 2 3 5 6 5 54 8.Michel Preud'homme SL Benfica Belgium 1 4 4 3 27 9."Bebeto" Deportivo La Coruña Brazil 2 3 1 7 26 10.Alan Shearer Blackburn Rovers FC England 1 1 3 1 3 23 11.Tomas Brolin Parma AC Sweden 1 2 1 1 3 21 12.Jari Litmanen Ajax Finland 3 2 17 13.Eric Cantona Manchester United FC France 2 3 3 15 14.George Weah FC Paris Saint Germain Liberia 2 3 2 14 15.Dejan Savicevic Milan AC Yugoslavia 1 3 2 13 16.Brian Laudrup Rangers FC Denmark 1 1 1 12 Matthew Le Tissier Southampton FC England 2 1 12 Gary McAllister Leeds United FC Scotland 1 1 1 12 19.Kennet Andersson Stade Malherbe Caen Sweden 1 2 11 20.Martin Dahlin Borussia M'gladbach Sweden 1 1 2 9 Ilie Dumitrescu Sevilla FC Romania 1 1 1 9 Andrei Kanchelskis Manchester United FC Russia/Ukr. 1 1 9 23.Alessandro DelPiero Juventus FC Italy 1 1 8 Aaron Winter SS Lazio Netherlands 1 1 1 8 25.Dino Baggio Parma AC Italy 1 1 1 7 Michael Laudrup Real Madrid Denmark 1 1 7 Thomas Ravelli IFK Göteborg Sweden 2 3 7 28.Andrés Escobar Colombia 1 1 6 Yordan Lechkov Hamburger SV Bulgaria 1 1 6 Diego Maradona Argentina 1 1 1 6 Anthony Yeboah Leeds United FC Ghana 1 1 6 Rashidi Yekini Real Sporting Gijón Nigeria 2 6 33.Dennis Bergkamp FC Internazionale Netherlands 2 1 5 "Dunga" VfB Stuttgart Brazil 1 5 Trifon Ivanov Real Betis Balompié Bulgaria 1 5 Uwe Rössler Manchester City FC Germany 1 5 Gary Speed Leeds United FC Wales 1 5 Noel Whelan Leeds United FC England 1 5 39.Daniel Amokachi Everton FC Nigeria 1 4 "Amoroso" Guarani Brazil 1 4 Marco Etcheverry América de Cali Bolivia 2 4 Maurizio Gaudino Manchester City FC Germany 1 4 Josip Guardiola FC Barcelona Spain 1 4 Ariel Ortega River Plate Argentina 1 4 Mauro Silva Deportivo La Coruña Brazil 1 1 4 Ian Wright Arsenal FC England 1 4 47.Tony Adams Arsenal FC England 1 3 Emmanuel Amunike Sporting CP Nigeria 1 3 Krassimir Balakov Sporting CP Bulgaria 1 3 Andy Cole Manchester United FC England 1 1 3 Jürgen Kohler Juventus FC Germany 1 3 Philomen Masinga Leeds United FC South Africa 1 3 53."Aldaír" AS Roma Brazil 2 2 Gary Anderton Tottenham Hotspur FC England 1 2 "Branco" Flamengo Brazil 1 2 Brian Deane Leeds United FC England 1 2 Albert Ferrer FC Barcelona Spain 1 2 Daniel Fonseca AS Roma Uruguay 1 2 Robbie Fowler Liverpool FC England 1 2 Gary Kelly Leeds United FC Rep. Ireland 1 2 Patrice Loko FC Nantes-Atlantique France 1 2 Tony Meola USA USA 1 2 Jay-Jay Okocha Eintracht Frankfurt Nigeria 1 2 Abedi Pelé AC Torino Ghana 1 2 David Platt Sampdoria UC England 2 2 Fernando Redondo Real Madrid Argentina 2 2 Frank Rijkaard Ajax Netherlands 1 2 Vincenzo Scifo AS Monaco Belgium 1 2 Giuseppe Signori SS Lazio Italy 1 2 Paulo Sousa Huventus FC Portugal 1 2 Davor Suker Sevilla FC Croatia 1 2 Chris Sutton Blackburn Rovers FC England 1 2 "Valdeir" FC Girondins Bordeaux Brazil 1 2 Gianluca Vialli Juventus FC Italy 1 2 Mark Viduka Melbourne Knights Australia 1 2 Paul Walsh Manchester United FC England 1 2 77.Dennis Bailey Exeter City FC England 1 1 Rudolfo Cardoso SC Freiburg Argentina 1 1 Rui Costa Fiorentina AC Portugal 1 1 Marcel Desailly Milan AC France 1 1 Christophe Dugarry FC Girondins Bordeaux France 1 1 Paul Gascoigne SS Lazio England 1 1 Ryan Giggs Manchester United FC Wales 1 1 Robert Jarni Juventus FC Croatia 1 1 "Jorginho" Bayern München Brazil 1 1 Alexi Lalas Padova USA 1 1 Saeed al-Owairan Al-Shabab Saudi Arabia 1 1 Florin Raducioiu RCD Español Romania 1 1 "Raí" FC Paris Saint Germain Brazil 1 1 Matthias Sammer Borussia Dortmund Germany 1 1 Marcio Santos AC Fiorentina Brazil 1 1 Stefan Schwarz Arsenal FC Sweden 1 1 David Seaman Arsenal FC England 1 1 Lee Sharpe Manchester United FC England 1 1 Ernie Stewart Willem II USA 1 1 Claudio Taffarel Reggiana Brazil 1 1 David Wetherall Leeds United FC England 1 1 1 "Romário" = Romário da Souza Faria 9 "Bebeto" = Jorge Roberto Gama de Oliveira 33 "Dunga" = Carlos Caetano Bledon Verri Dunga 39 "Amoroso" = 53 "Aldaír" = Aldaír Nascimento Santos 53 "Branco" = Claudio Ibraim Vaz 53 "Valdeir" = Celso Moreira Valdeir 77 "Jorginho" = Jorge de Amorim Campos 77 "Raí" = Raí Souza Vieira de Oliveira
REMARKS OF THE RSSSF PRESIDENT Unlike the two previous years, in which Marco van Basten and Roberto Baggio won landslide victories, this year a close battle for first place was fought between the two World Cup stars, Romário and Hristo Stoitchkov, which the first only narrowly won. In fact, it wasn't until the very end of the vote that he obtained the lead. Whereas the first two places for those players do not come as a surprise, the RSS voters once more proved their objectiveness and expert judgement by choosing a defender, Paolo Maldini, ahead of the more flashy characters of Gheorghe Hagi and Roberto Baggio. Maldini was instrumental in taking Milan to a third consecutive scudetto and their fifth Champions Cup. He certainly deserved a medal spot, just as Hagi and Baggio could not be overlooked in the top-5 thanks to their World Cup performances. The rest of the top-15 once again reads as a "Who is Who" in international football for 1994. Cheers, Karel Stokkermans
VOTERS Name Yonghee Choi 1 Kenneth Chan 2 Vesselin Penelov 3 Alexander Goddard 4 Damian Pacitto 5 Llolsten Kaonga 6 Geoff Bethell 7 Kristian Berg 8 Lars Henrik Tombre 9 Iskander Ayari 10 WTV Wong 11 Adrian Weissman 12 Jaime E. Lopez 13 Christopher S. Allen 14 Hamid Dastkar 15 Kent Hedlundh 16 Serge Pasche 17 Lars Aarhus 18 Thomas Esamie 19 Richard Graham 20 Brain Farenell 21 Tim Fisher 22 Loris Magnani 23 Vince B. Ho 24 Samuel Hung 25 Andrew Busa 26 Frank Thomas Crivello 27 Razak Hossain 28 Fabio Ingrao 29 Kalle Mikkola 30 Niclas Gustafsson 31 Karel Stokkermans 32 John P. Wangermann 33 Jean-Michel Siago 34 Amir Haleem 35 Tim Kennedy 36 Nick Ioffe 37 Magne Pettersen 38 Rui M. Ponte 39 Pat Keenan 40 Hesaaun Habibula 41 Manoel Mendonca 42 Stephen Drew 43 Adel El Sayed 44 Wink Cushing 45 Dominic J. Martinez 46 Patrick Bernal 47 Joe Ritchie 48 Riccardo Biondini 49 David Akkarach 50 Sean McKinley 51 Nishad Chande 52 Stephane Vouliot 53 Au Wai Yip Albert 54 Patrick Conway 55 Matt Kearney 56 Eugen Ardeleanu 57 Rodrigo Capaz 58 Colin Morris 59 Ville Niskasaari 60 Gustaaf van Moorsel 61 Mads Jensen 62 Marko Poutiainen 63 Sergiu Dascalu 64 Mohammad Azzam 65 Viorica Sofronie 66 Stefan Wagner 67 Anders Subotic 68 Michel Britte 69 Mark Varley 70 Yevgeniy Shtutin 71 Scott Benson 72 John Boller 73 Stuart Prior 74 Michael Medved 75 Joysheel Mitter 76 Luke Morris 77 Jacques Robin 78 Mel Melis 79 Matthew Brown 80 Andrew Hickie 81 Trygve Svendsen 82 Bas Meijer 83 Markus Laine 84 Howard Hamilton 85 Vishant Bhatia 86 Ken Gilbert 87 Reza Ghaemi 88 Ezequiel Hart 89 Oliver Kraemer 90 Stephen Halchuk 91 Doug Green 92 Bernd Timmermann 93 Phil Anderson 94 Alan Douglas 95 Marcelo Torres 96 Jean-Pierre Caillault 97 Christos Bouzoulas 98 Paul Horja 99
COUNTRY OF BIRTH Afghanistan 1 Bangladesh 1 Belgium 1 Brazil 2 Bulgaria 2 Canada 4 Denmark 1 England 13 Finland 5 France 3 Germany 3 Greece 1 Guyana 1 Hong Kong 4 India 2 Iran 2 Italy 3 Korea 1 Lebanon 1 Malawi 1 Mauritius 1 The Netherlands 3 New Zealand 1 Norway 4 Palestine 1 Peru 1 Portugal 1 Romania 5 Scotland 4 Sweden 3 Switzerland 1 Thailand 1 USA 18 USSR 3 (of which Belarus 1) COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE Austria 3 Australia 2 Canada 13 Denmark 2 England 10 Finland 4 France 2 Germany 2 Hong Kong 1 Israel 3 New Zealand 2 Norway 4 Scotland 3 Sweden 3 Switzerland 1 USA 43 Wales 1
FINAL WORD
Thanks to all who have participated and my apologies to the two
persons which votes arrived the date after the deadline, it may
be due to our mail system or yours or whatever.
As usual, it have been fun and time consuming to do this :-)
Well met next year!
And CONGRATULATIONS TO ROMARIO!
Kent Hedlundh - Vote-taker
Karel Stokkermans - Checking and comments.
Also thanks to Lars Aarhus and Bernd Timmermann.
Prepared and maintained by Kent Hedlundh for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Kent Hedlundh (kenth@cs.umu.se)
Last updated: 31 Jan 2002
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