The results of this voting were published on France Football # 2958 (17 December 2002).
There were 52 voters, from Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales and Yugoslavia.
The columns are: Position Name of Player Name of Club Nationality Total Number of Points 1P = First Places 2P = Second Places 3P = Third Places 4P = Fourth Places 5P = Fifth Places Votes = Number of Voters who nominated this player
Pos Player Country Club Total 1P 2P 3P 4P 5P Votes
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1. Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima Brazil Real Madrid 169 16 13 7 7 2 45 [see note]
2. Roberto Carlos da Silva Brazil Real Madrid 145 23 3 4 2 2 34
3. Oliver Kahn Germany Bayern Munich 110 2 13 9 9 3 36 [see note]
4. Zinedine Zidane France Real Madrid 78 2 3 10 8 10 33
5. Michael Ballack Germany Bayern Munich 71 4 6 5 4 4 23 [see note]
6. Thierry Henry France Arsenal 54 2 6 2 3 8 21
7. Raúl González Spain Real Madrid 38 2 2 3 4 3 14
8. Vitor Barbosa Ferreira "Rivaldo" Brazil Milan AC 31 1 2 2 5 2 12 [see note]
9. Yildiray Bastürk Turkey Bayer Leverkusen 13 - - 3 1 2 6
10. Alessandro Del Piero Italy Juventus 12 - 1 1 1 3 6
11. Hasan Sas Turkey Galatasaray 10 - - 1 3 1 5
12. Ronaldo de Assis "Ronaldinho" Brazil Paris Saint-Germain 8 - 1 1 - 1 3
13. Michael Owen England Liverpool 5 - - 1 1 - 2
Ruud van Nistelrooy Netherlands Manchester United 5 - - 1 - 2 3
15. Bernd Schneider Germany Bayer Leverkusen 4 - 1 - - - 1
Juan Carlos Valerón Spain Deportivo La Coruña 4 - 1 - - - 1
Marcos Evangelista "Cafu" Brazil AS Roma 4 - - 1 - 1 2
Patrick Vieira France Arsenal 4 - - - 2 - 2
19. Lucimar da Silva "Lucio" Brazil Bayer Leverkusen 3 - - 1 - - 1
Luis Figo Portugal Real Madrid 3 - - - 1 1 2
21. Pape Bouba Diop Senegal Racing Lens 2 - - - 1 - 1
El-Hadji Diouf Senegal Liverpool 2 - - - - 2 2
Rio Ferdinand England Manchester United 2 - - - - 2 2
24. Rubén Baraja Spain Valencia CF 1 - - - - 1 1
Filippo Inzaghi Italy Milan AC 1 - - - - 1 1
Roy Makaay Netherlands Deportivo La Coruña 1 - - - - 1 1
Note: France-Football reports Ronaldo with 171 points, Kahn with 114, Ballack with 67, and Rivaldo with 29.
After reviewing each voter’s vote, it seems that the vote from Scotland was
counted backwards (1st choice was counted as 5th, 2nd as 4th, and so forth).
Eligible players who did not receive any votes:
Pablo Aimar (Arg), Sonny Anderson (Bra), David Beckham (Eng), Iker Casillas (Spa),
Djibril Cissé (Fra), Edmilson (Bra), Ryan Giggs (Wal), Junichi Inamoto (Jap),
Miroslav Klose (Ger), Patrick Kluivert (Ned), Luis Enrique (Spa), Claude Makélélé (Fra),
Paolo Maldini (Ita), Pedro Pauleta (Por), Tomas Rosicky (Cze), Javier Saviola (Arg),
Seol Ki-Hyeon (Kor), Jon-Dahl Tomasson (Den), Francesco Totti (Ita), David Trezeguet (Fra),
Pierre van Hooijdonk (Ned), Christian Vieri (Ita), Marc Wilmots (Bel) and Sylvain Wiltord (Fra)
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Author: José Luis Pierrend
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Last updated: 26 Mar 2005
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