Nominate Fifa's World Player Of The Year

About 30 players were nominated by FIFA for the world footballer of the year, the award comes up on December 18 2006 in zurich, Switzerland.
last year the Chelsea Frank Lampard came second behind Dinho whom came first as the World Best.

Out of the 30 shortlisted players by FIFA who worth the Crown
The players are:-

Ronaldinho, (Barcelona, Brazil),
Adriano, (Inter Milan, Brazil),
Michael Ballack,  (Chelsea, Germany),
Gianluigi Buffon,  (Juventus, Italy),
Fabio Cannavaro,  (Real Madrid, Italy),
Cristiano Ronaldo,  (Manchester United, Portugal),
Petr Cech , (Chelsea, Czech Republic),
Deco,  (Barcelona, Portugal),
Didier Drogba,  (Chelsea, Ivory Coast),
Michael Essien,  (Chelsea, Ghana),
Samuel Eto'o,  (Barcelona, Cameroon),
Luis Figo,  (Inter Milan, Portugal),
Gennaro Gattuso,  (AC Milan, Italy),
Steven Gerrard,  (Liverpool, England),
Thierry Henry,  (Arsenal, France),
Kaka,  (AC Milan, Brazil),
Miroslav Klose,  (Werder Bremen, Germany),
Philippe Lahm,  (Bayern Munich, Germany),
Frank Lampard,  (Chelsea, England),
Jens Lehmann,  (Arsenal, Germany),
Alessandro Nesta,  (AC Milan, Italy),
Andrea Pirlo,  (AC Milan, Italy),]
Franck Ribery,  (Marseille, France),
Juan Roman Riquelme,  (Villarreal, Argentina),
Wayne Rooney,  (Manchester United, England),
Tomas Rosicky,  (Arsenal, Czech Republic),
Andriy Shevchenko,  (Chelsea, Ukraine),
Lilian Thuram,  (Barcelona, France),
Patrick Vieira,  (Inter Milan, France),
Zinedine Zidane,  (retired, France).

Even if Zizou should headbutt Blatter today he will still be given the award, case study is how they still went ahead to rightly make him MVP of the Mundial in spite of all the brouhaha as at then

But this world best is expected to come down to the likes of striker Thierry Henry(Arsenal, France) and Fabio Cannavaro Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid, Italy) to my own veiw Thierry deserve to be this years world best if you should take a look @ the past records

2005: Ronaldinho
2004: Ronaldinho
2003: Zidane (Real Madrid)
2002: Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
2001: Figo (Real Madrid)
2000: Zidane (Juventus)
1999: Rivaldo (Barcelona)
1998: Zidane (Juventus)
1997: Ronaldo (Inter Milan)
1996: Ronaldo (Barcelona)
1995: Weah (AC Milan)
1994: Romario (Barcelona)
1993: Baggio (Juventus)
1992: Van Basten (AC Milan)
1991: Matthaeus (Inter Milan),

for the past 13 years we have not had the world best in England and this time around we have perform we deserve the World Best and that is Igwe Henry.

 

  People this article is so funny i am still in stiches, made my whole friday, this did

 Where have all the great footballers gone?

Most of the names on Fifa's 30-man world player of the year shortlist aren't actually that good.

Scott MurrayOctober 13, 2006 11:35 AM

World-class players aren't really that world-class any more, are they? Actually, that's unfair: today's top stars have no peers when it comes to promoting Pringles, themselves, Adidas, themselves, themselves, EA Sports and themselves. But when they finally get round to pulling on their sponsored boots, there aren't too many of them who consistently deliver when it really matters. Here's that Fifa 2006 world player of the year shortlist in full:

Adriano (Internazionale, Brazil): This club-footed oaf spent the summer single-handedly dismantling the last vestiges of Brazil's tedious Mexico-70 samba-dancing joga-bonito Nike-advertising-agency nonsense once and for all. For that at least, the poor man's Emile Heskey has our thanks.

Michael Ballack (Chelsea, Germany): His only meaningful action in the World Cup saw him hoofing a free-kick three miles over the bar at the business end of Germany's semi-final against Italy. By the end of his Lampardesque year, the "best" all-action midfielder in the world was reduced to panicked two-footed lunges on the best all-action midfielder in the world, Momo Sissoko. Shame shame shame.

Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, Italy): Has spent an entire career behind defences which leave him with precious few crucial saves to make, so who really knows what he's capable of? Apart from Luis García? And Cesc Fábregas? Anyway, seeing that he makes Borat Sagdiyev look more hand-wringingly liberal than George Monbiot, even if he had six eight-fingered hands on extended springs he could eff off.

Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid, Italy): Wildly over-rated in the World Cup on account of having a) nothing really to do in any of the matches he was involved in other than saunter about, and b) nice hair. Currently in La Liga doing a passable impression of a slightly more confused Rio Ferdinand.

Petr Cech (Chelsea, Czech Republic): Dodgy on crosses, as the Greeks revealed in Euro 2004. Also, he's just let in a goal by Kevin Kilbane. Next!

Deco (Barcelona, Portugal): Sent off against Holland for the most idiotic ball-handling offence since the days of Claudio Caniggia. And that's about it.

Didier Drogba (Chelsea, Ivory Coast): Finally he pays back a whack of that £24m fee with 16 goals in the calendar year to date. Not bad, but for the record, that's five less than Peter Crouch has managed in the same period.

Michael Essien (Chelsea, Ghana): Currently having the rumbustiousness sucked out of him by Jose Mourinho's careful-careful coaching plan. Makes list ahead of Arjen Robben and Damien Duff, you'll note.

Luis Figo (Internazionale, Portugal): The holder of the world's most over-rated player trophy for five consecutive years from 1999, Figo finally got a chance to make a bid for immortality in this year's World Cup semi-final. And was marginally less successful than he was with his "performance" in the Euro 2004 final.

Gennaro Gattuso (AC Milan, Italy): Robbie Savage with a beard.

Steven Gerrard (Liverpool, England): A couple of timely goals in Cardiff, there, Stevie. Though seeing you're always banging on about how your best position is in centre midfield, aren't you slightly embarrassed that every single time your club manager relents and lets you play there, there's enough room down the middle to spin a few doughnuts into an articulated lorry?

Thierry Henry (Arsenal, France): Didn't show in World Cup 98. Outshone by Wiltord (!) and Trezeguet (!!!) in Euro 2000. Failed to step up to the plate in Korea/Japan or Euro 2004. Sulked like a baby after going missing in this year's Champions League final. Took a dive, though he is not a woman, against both Spain and Portugal in Germany. And in the final he went miss ,  ah what the hell. One of the favourites, it says here!

Kaka (AC Milan, Brazil): Totally off form for the entire year.

Philippe Lahm (Bayern Munich, Germany): A purler to open the World Cup for the Germans; nowhere to be seen when Fabio Grosso closed it for them.

Frank Lampard (Chelsea, England): Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Jens Lehmann (Arsenal, Germany): Outstanding penalty save to help Arsenal reach the Champions League final; outstandingly poor decision-making in Paris to make them wish they hadn't bothered.

Juan Román Riquelme (Villarreal, Argentina): Have you ever seen anyone more nailed-on to miss a penalty than Riquelme in the last minute of that Champions League semi-final? Just look at those flickering eyes. If you're not blinded by the glistening beads of sweat forming on his forehead, that is. Nearly redeemed himself in the summer with a couple of fantastic displays for his country, but again went missing when it came to the crunch. José Pekerman wasn't the only Argentinian whose brain went into meltdown during the quarter-finals.

Ronaldinho (Barcelona, Brazil): Those showreel flicks look real nice on Soccer AM's Skills Pedalo. But they don't seem to do the business very often in Champions League semi-finals, finals or crucial World Cup matches, do they?

Wayne Rooney (Manchester United, England): Has failed to score a goal in the Champions League or in international football for two years. For the record, that's 13 fewer than Peter Crouch has managed in the same period.

Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal, Czech Republic): Currently engaged in a heavyweight tussle with Dimitar Berbatov to be crowned the most lightweight player plying his trade in north London. This nomination also suggests he's had a better 12 months than Fábregas, doesn't it?

Andriy Shevchenko (Chelsea, Ukraine): Currently having the rumbustiousness sucked out of him by Jose Mourinho's careful-careful coaching plan to such an extent that he's been reduced to diving against Scotland! Oh dear. How the mighty have fallen (with triple salchow and pike).

Lilian Thuram (Barcelona, France): Fantastic six years ago. Can we vote for Ronaldo, Laurent Blanc and Fernando Redondo as well?

Patrick Vieira (Internazionale, France): Arsène knows.

Zinédine Zidane (retired, France): For all his many faults, most of which were blatantly apparent before the World Cup final, Zizou has been the one "world-class" player in the last decade who's ever bothered himself enough to step it up a gear at the business end of tournaments. And now he's gone. Help! Someone's broken football!

You'll note I left out from Fifa's list Samuel Eto'o, Franck Ribéry, Miroslav Klose, Andrea Pirlo, Alessandro Nesta and the fantastic, adversity-shunning twinkletoes of Cristiano Ronaldo. All of whom were, well, not bad. And in any case, you can't be finding fault in everyone just to make a facile point, can you?

From

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/10/13/where_have_all_the_great_footb.html

But seriously Zidane should win it, but i think either Henry (compensation) or an italian (compensation 2) will win it. Dinho does not deserve it, and i will be disgusted if they give it to any brazilian or argie for that matter (Could our african son ETO come through at the last minute and do us proud, fingers crossed everyone )

  GOONER 89

Juan Riquelme should win the awards.
He was the most influencial player at the World Cup.

@Loyika

Peter cech may be shaky at times but he is in the top 3 goalkeeper in the world.

Lampard: Englishness and current 2nd best player in the world( according to those idiots that voted).

@All

One English guy told me most of their guys make it for commercial purposes.

@ All fans

Some friends told me to do select my players from the nominated list as they perform in the  following Areas :-

Best Goal Keeper

Best Defender

Best midfielder  &

The Best Striker

So before we go ahead, lets make our selection using the above format

@Grizzly

Honestly since Zidane messed up, my mind is with the italians but can they vote for them?

For me I vote This man "Ballack"

@ All

It's so nice to hear you vote who is goin to be the world best! I think he is rigth so say that we should nominate from that
may be I choose

peter cech from the post

canevaro from the defence

Zidane from midfield and

Henry from the top

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Scott MurrayOctober 13, 2006 11:35 AM



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Kaka (AC Milan, Brazil): Totally off form for the entire year.





y bring quotes from stupid english analysts that know nothin bout italian football???

in case he didn't know,, ricky kaka scored the best goal of the champs league last season.

the only oppurtunity these people get to see these players comes in the UCL or the world cup.

it amazed me during the world cup when an english commentator didn't speak for himselfwhen he said fabio grosso was an unknown player prior to the world cup.

when everyone  that follows the serie a saw his qualities a cpl seasons ago when palermo were promoted,

and his forays and accurate crosses helped luca toni make a name for himself.

Kaka for the award sha.

i understood what he was trying to say from the moment i started readin through it.


but u don't u think it goes way beyond sarcasm when u say a player was TOTALLY OFF FORM FOR THE WHOLE OF LAST YR???

i quite agree with him on adriano sha.lol

Igwe Henry

andrea Pirlo-for me he was the best player in germany even in the final match
thierry henry-his continued domination of the premiership scoring charts and taking arsenal to the final
buffonsimply the best goal keeper in the world even in serie b.see te game italy lost 3-1 to france he was fantastic