Player of the the year '04, FIFA list

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Adriano (Brazil)
Roberto Ayala (Argentina)
Michael Ballack (Germany)
Milan Baros (Czech Rep)
David Beckham (England)
Gianluigi Buffon (Italy)
Cafu (Brazil)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
Deco (Portugal)
Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast)
Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon)
Luis Figo (Portugal)
Steven Gerrard (England)
Ryan Giggs (Wales)
Thierry Henry (France)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden)
Oliver Kahn (Germany)
Kaka (Brazil)
Frank Lampard (England)
Henrik Larsson (Sweden)
Roy Makaay (Holland)
Paolo Maldini (Italy)
Pavel Nedved (Czech Rep)
Alessandro Nesta (Italy)
Michael Owen (England)
Robert Pires (France)
Raul (Spain)
Roberto Carlos (Brazil)
Ronaldinho (Brazil)
Ronaldo (Brazil)
Wayne Rooney (England)
Andrej Shevchenko (Ukraine)
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Holland)
Theodoros Zagorakis (Greece)
Zinedine Zidane (France)

Whom you are for?

Joe:)
I am for Rooney, C. Ronaldo and VanMan.;)

[JoJ]

1. Andrej Shevchenko
2. Ruud van Nistelrooy
3. Wayne Rooney

[skeid]

1) Henry
2) Shevshenko
3) Nedved

................and that conculdes the votes from the norwegian jury.............

[Crazy Diamond]

1. Ruud van Nistelrooy (Holland) - Ну он просто очаровашка, как бы не играл. :love:

2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) - The most exciting player in football at the moment, I think. It is great to watch him, and I think he will grow even greater. :bounce:

3. Thierry Henry (France) - I do not like Arsenal, but I have to give hands-up for this guy - he is a brilliant player. :up: :up:

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Ruud van Nistelrooij
The complete striker, Ruud van Nistelrooij combines determination with tremendous strength, ball-playing ability and lethal finishing. One of the most feared attackers in world football.

National team
He made his debut for the Netherlands against Germany, aged 22, and scored his first international goal against Morocco in 1999. Injury ruled him out of the 2000 UEFA European Championship.

UEFA EURO 2004™ qualifying
A hat-trick against Scotland helped the Dutch reach Portugal via the play-offs and ensured Van Nistelrooij would finish as his country's leading scorer in the campaign ahead of Patrick Kluivert with five goals, having already scored against the Czech Republic and Moldova.

Club
Van Nistelrooij started on the road to stardom at FC Den Bosch, playing just behind the strikers. He moved further upfield following a switch to SC Heerenveen.

1998: PSV Eindhoven broke the Dutch transfer record to sign him on his 22nd birthday for €6.3m, and he rewarded them with 31 goals in his first term at the club - the second highest tally in Europe - and was named Dutch Footballer of the Year. Another prolific season followed and he was set to join Manchester United FC in April 2000 but the deal collapsed over injury fears, which were soon realised.

2001: A year later many people wondered if Sir Alex Ferguson had made the right decision in paying a then British-record fee of €30m for the centre-forward. Van Nistelrooij proved a bargain, two goals on his Premiership debut against Fulham FC setting the tone, and he emerged as the top scorer in the 2001/02 UEFA Champions League with ten goals as his side reached the semi-finals. Named the Professional Footballers Association Player of the Year. After registering 36 goals in his debut campaign, Van Nistelrooij followed up with 44 in 2002/03, his 25 league strikes helping United reclaim their league title from Arsenal.

2003/04: Scored 20 goals in 32 Premiership appearances as United finished third. Van Nistelrooij picked up his first FA Cup winner’s medal, scoring twice in the 3-0 final victory against Millwall FC.

Did you know?
He was encouraged by his coaches at Heerenveen to watch and learn from Dennis Bergkamp.

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Wayne Rooney
A wonderful, natural talent who burst on to the Premiership scene aged just 16, the Liverpool-born teenager combines remarkable skill with a boxer's strength and vision beyond his years.

National team
Wayne Rooney made history with his first international appearance, becoming England's youngest ever player when, at 17 years and 111 days, he played in the 3-1 friendly defeat by Australia in February 2003. He made his mark with a fearless display against Turkey in his first competitive appearance, inspiring England to a crucial 2-0 victory over their main Group 7 rivals. Then, at 17 years and 317 days, he became the youngest player to score a senior goal for his country when he struck the equaliser in the 2-1 away success against F.Y.R. Macedonia. He was at it again four days later with England's second goal in a 2-0 win against Liechtenstein, and in the finals in Portugal scored twice in the win against Switzerland and two more versus Croatia before breaking his foot in the last-eight defeat by the hosts.

Club
Rooney's debut season was a year to remember. Having led Everton to the FA Youth Cup final only three months earlier, he made his senior debut for his boyhood team against Tottenham Hotspur FC in August 2002. His first league goal followed two months later against Arsenal FC, a spectacular dipping strike in the last minute to end the Londoners' 30-match unbeaten record. He was still just 16 at the time. He ended his first season with six league goals.

2003/04: Rooney's second campaign was a story of ups and downs, mirroring the fortunes of an Everton side who failed to find any consistency. He was now a regular starter but went three months without a goal until Christmas when his purple patch of form helped Everton enjoy their best run of the season. Finished the year with nine goals from 34 league appearances, but on summer transfer deadline day completed a €29.6m move - potentially rising to €40m - to Manchester United FC on a six-year contract.

Did you know?
Rooney was the Everton mascot at a Merseyside derby in 1996/97.

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Cristiano Ronaldo
Greatly admired by Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United FC manager had no hesitation in handing this tricky and unpredictable winger the No7 shirt vacated by David Beckham in summer 2003.

National team
An Under-18 and Under-21 international with Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo made his full debut in August 2003 when coming on in the second half of a 1-0 victory against Kazakhstan and went on to establish himself as a regular as UEFA EURO 2004™ approached. His displays in the finals earned the winger a place in the All-Star Squad and Portugal a spot in the final, where Ronaldo could not add to his two goals as Greece prevailed. Subsequently competed at the Athens Olympics.

Club
Born in Madeira in August 1985, Ronaldo joined Sporting Clube de Portugal from CD Nacional in 1997. Made his debut for the Lisbon club against Internazionale FC in the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, and went on make 25 appearances - starting eleven of them - in his only season at Sporting. Joined United on 13 August 2003 - the same day as Kleberson - for €17.5m, a world-record fee for a teenager.

2003/04: Took a while to adapt to English football but overall enjoyed a promising debut season in the Premiership, making 29 appearances. Ronaldo capped his season by dazzling in the FA Cup final, opening the scoring in the victory against Millwall FC.

Did you know?
Ronaldo was named after the former United States president Ronald Reagan.

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Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Shevchenko is one of the most exciting forwards in the game, combining speed and skill with a sharp eye for goal, as he proved in the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League final.

National team
Now his country's talisman, Shevchenko first appeared for Ukraine in March 1995 against Croatia, scoring his first goal in May 1996 against Turkey. Despite playing in qualifying, he is yet to play in a major final tournament.

Club
Shevchenko spent five seasons at FC Dynamo Kyiv, before joining Milan in 1999 for €26m. He had just scored eight goals to help the Ukrainian champions into the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League and his exceptional performances saw him come third in the poll for that year's FIFA World Player of the Year. During the previous season he struck a first-half hat-trick at the Camp Nou in a sensational 4-0 win for Dynamo against FC Barcelona. He left the club having won five championships and two Ukrainian Cups.

1999: It was no great surprise when 'Sheva' became the first foreigner to top the Serie A scoring charts in a debut season. He tormented Serie A defenders with another 24-goal haul in the 2000/01 season, and managed 14 goals in 29 Serie A appearances in 2001/02, including two in Milan’s 4-2 win against local rivals FC Internazionale. Shevchenko scored the winning penalty in the 2003 Champions League final victory against Juventus FC having had a goal disallowed in normal time, and also received the Ukrainian Order of Merit from president Leonid Kuchma.

2003/04: Started the campaign with the only goal as Milan won the UEFA Super Cup by beating FC Porto 1-0 in Monaco. The top scorer in Serie A with 24 goals, Shevchenko sealed another outstanding year by signing a new contract with the champions until 2009.

Did you know?
Former Liverpool FC striker Ian Rush gave Shevchenko, then just 14, a pair of his boots as a prize for his goalscoring prowess in a 1990 youth tournament.

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Thierry Henry

Thierry Henry is a goalscorer par excellence who has not looked back since Arsenal FC paid Juventus FC €17m for his services in the summer of 1999. The extra responsibility which came with being converted from a wide player into a central striker has seen him mature into one of the game's most-feared hitmen.

National team
Scored the only goal of the 1996 UEFA European Under-18 Championship final against Spain and two years later, aged 20, he finished as his country's leading scorer as they won the FIFA World Cup on home soil. Further success followed at UEFA EURO 2000™, where he was again his country's top scorer with three strikes, before France, and Henry, who was sent off against Uruguay, came crashing down to earth at the 2002 World Cup. Scored six goals in seven UEFA EURO 2004™ qualifiers to finish as his country's joint-leading marksman along with David Trezeguet and Sylvain Wiltord. He then scored twice in the win against Switzerland that took France to the quarter-finals.

Club
A fleet-footed natural athlete, Henry first made his mark with AS Monaco FC, for whom he made his debut in 1995, helping them to win the French title in 1996/97 and reach a UEFA Champions League semi-final in 1998.

1999: He joined Juventus in January for a significant fee but failed to settle and seven months later was heading for Highbury to replace Nicolas Anelka.

2001: The season preceding Korea/Japan was hugely successul for Henry as he won the Premiership Golden Boot as the Londoners wrested the title from Manchester United FC and defeated Chelsea FC in the FA Cup final. His performances were enough to see him voted into the uefa.com users' Team of the year for 2002. Scored a majestic UEFA Champions League at AS Roma the following term, ending it with 24 league goals, an FA Cup winner's medal and both English Footballer of the Year awards.

2003/04: English Footballer of the Year again and winner of the ESM Golden Shoe, Henry's electric performances inspired Arsenal to the league title and an unbeaten campaign. He scored 30 league goals and five more in the Champions League.

Did you know?
Henry's uncle was French 400 metres hurdles champion.

[Mussav]

no Kasimov ?? :(

[Guardian]

no Kasimov ?? :(
Soon:) :)