UEFA Awards (original) (raw)

Year Awards
Season Awards
Jubilee Awards

Year Awards

Note that these teams are selected over the internet by visitors of UEFA's website.

Team of the Year 2001

Santiago Ca�izares (Esp) Valencia CF

Cosmin Contra (Rom) Deportivo Alav�s Sami Hyypi� (Fin) Liverpool FC Patrik Andersson (Swe) FC Barcelona Bixente Lizarazu (Fra) FC Bayern M�nchen

David Beckham (Eng) Manchester United FC Patrick Vieira (Fra) Arsenal FC Zinedine Zidane (Fra) Real Madrid CF Kily Gonz�lez (Esp) Valencia CF

Thierry Henry (Fra) Arsenal FC David Trezeguet (Fra) Juventus FC

Coach: G�rard Houllier (Fra) Liverpool

Team of the Year 2002

R�stu Re�ber (Tur) Fenerbah�e SK

Carles Puyol (Esp) FC Barcelona Alessandro Nesta (Ita) AC Milan Cristian Chivu (Rom) AFC Ajax Roberto Carlos (Bra) Real Madrid CF

Clarence Seedorf (Ned) AC Milan Michael Ballack (Ger) FC Bayern M�nchen Zinedine Zidane (Fra) Real Madrid CF Damien Duff (Ire) Blackburn Rovers FC

Thierry Henry (Fra) Arsenal FC Ronaldo (Bra) Real Madrid CF

Coach: Senol G�nes (Tur) Turkey

Team of the Year 2003

Gianluigi Buffon (Ita) Juventus FC

Paulo Ferreira (Por) FC Porto Alessandro Nesta (Ita) AC Milan Paolo Maldini (Ita) AC Milan Roberto Carlos (Bra) Real Madrid CF

Lu�s Figo (Por) Real Madrid CF David Beckham (Eng) Real Madrid CF Zinedine Zidane (Fra) Real Madrid CF Pavel Nedved (Cze) Juventus FC

Thierry Henry (Fra) Arsenal FC Ruud van Nistelrooij (Ned) Manchester United FC

Coach: Jos� Mourinho (Por) FC Porto

Team of the Year 2004

Gianluigi Buffon (Ita) Juventus FC

Cafu (Bra) AC Milan Alessandro Nesta (Ita) AC Milan Ricardo Carvalho (Por) FC Porto / Chelsea Ashley Cole (Eng) Arsenal FC

Cristiano Ronaldo (Por) Manchester United FC Maniche (Por) FC Porto Ronaldinho (Bra) FC Barcelona Pavel Nedved (Cze) Juventus FC

Thierry Henry (Fra) Arsenal FC Andriy Shevchenko (Ukr) AC Milan

Coach: Jos� Mourinho (Por) FC Porto / Chelsea

Team of the Year 2005

Petr Cech (Cze) Chelsea

Cafu (Bra) AC Milan John Terry (Eng) Chelsea Puyol (Esp) Barcelona Paolo Maldini (Ita) AC Milan

Lu�s Garcia (Esp) Liverpool Steven Gerrard (Eng) Liverpool Ronaldinho (Bra) Barcelona Pavel Nedved (Cze) Juventus

Samuel Eto'o (Cam) Barcelona Andriy Shevchenko (Ukr) AC Milan

Coach: Jos� Mourinho (Por) Chelsea

Season Awards

Chosen by UEFA.

Most Valuable Player

1997/98 Ronaldo BRA Internazionale (Milano) 1998/99 David Beckham ENG Manchester United 1999/00 Fernando Redondo ARG Real Madrid 2000/01 Stefan Effenberg GER Bayern M�nchen 2001/02 Zin�dine Zidane FRA Real Madrid 2002/03 Gianluigi Buffon ITA Juventus (Torino) 2003/04 Deco POR FC Porto 2004/05 Steven Gerrard ENG Liverpool 2005/06 Ronaldinho BRA Barcelona

Best Goalkeeper

1997/98 Peter Schmeichel DEN Manchester United 1998/99 Oliver Kahn GER Bayern M�nchen 1999/00 Oliver Kahn GER Bayern M�nchen 2000/01 Oliver Kahn GER Bayern M�nchen 2001/02 Oliver Kahn GER Bayern M�nchen 2002/03 Gianluigi Buffon ITA Juventus (Torino) 2003/04 Vitor Ba�a POR FC Porto 2004/05 Petr Cech CZE Chelsea 2005/06 Jens Lehmann GER Arsenal

Best Defender

1997/98 Fernando Hierro SPA Real Madrid 1998/99 Jaap Stam NED Manchester United 1999/00 Jaap Stam NED Manchester United 2000/01 Fabi�n Ayala ARG Valencia 2001/02 Roberto Carlos BRA Real Madrid 2002/03 Roberto Carlos BRA Real Madrid 2003/04 Ricardo Carvalho POR FC Porto 2004/05 John Terry ENG Chelsea 2005/06 Carles Puyol SPA Barcelona

Best Midfielder

1997/98 Zin�dine Zidane FRA Juventus (Torino) 1998/99 David Beckham ENG Manchester United 1999/00 Gaizka Mendieta SPA Valencia 2000/01 Gaizka Mendieta SPA Lazio Roma 2001/02 Micha�l Ballack GER Bayern M�nchen 2002/03 Pavel Nedved CZE Juventus (Torino) 2003/04 Deco POR FC Porto 2004/05 Kak� BRA Milan 2005/06 Deco POR Barcelona

Best Forward

1997/98 Ronaldo BRA Internazionale (Milano) 1998/99 Andriy Shevchenko UKR Milan 1999/00 Ra�l Gonz�lez SPA Real Madrid 2000/01 Ra�l Gonz�lez SPA Real Madrid 2001/02 Ruud van Nistelrooij NED Manchester United 2002/03 Ra�l Gonz�lez SPA Real Madrid 2003/04 Fernando Morientes ESP AS Monaco (loaned from Real Madrid) 2004/05 Ronaldinho BRA Barcelona 2005/06 Samuel Eto'o CMR Barcelona

Coach of the Year

1997/98 Marcello Lippi ITA Juventus (Torino) 1998/99 Alex Ferguson SCO Manchester United 1999/00 H�ctor Ra�l Cuper SPA Valencia 2000/01 Ottmar Hitzfeld GER Bayern M�nchen 2001/02 Vicente Del Bosque SPA Real Madrid 2002/03 Carlo Ancelotti ITA Milan and Jos� Mourinho POR FC Porto 2003/04 Jos� Mourinho POR FC Porto and Javier Benitez ESP Valencia 2004/05 Rafael Ben�tez ESP Liverpool and Valery Gazzaev RUS CSKA Moscow 2005/06 Frank Rjkaard NED Barcelona Juande Ramos ESP Sevilla

Jubilee Awards

The UEFA Jubilee 52 Golden Players

At the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2004, UEFA asked each of its 52 member associations to nominate one player as the single most outstanding player of the period 1954-2003. The following players were selected by each country.

Country Player

Albania Panajot Pano Andorra Koldo Armenia Khoren Hovhannisyan Austria Herbert Prohaska Azerbaijan Anatoli Banishevski Belarus Sergei Aleinikov Belgium Paul Van Himst Bosnia-Herzegovina Safet Susic Bulgaria Hristo Stoitchkov Croatia Davor �uker Cyprus Sotiris Kaiafas Czech Republic Josef Masopust Denmark Michael Laudrup England Bobby Moore Estonia Mart Poom Faroe Islands Abraham Lokin (Abraham Hansen) Finland Jari Litmanen France Just Fontaine Georgia Murtaz Khurtsilava Germany Fritz Walter Greece Vassilis Hatzipanagis Hungary Ferenc Pusk�s Iceland Asgeir Sigurvinsson Ireland Johnny Giles
Israel Mordechai Shpigler Italy Dino Zoff Kazakhstan Sergey Kvochkin Latvia Aleksandrs Starkovs Liechtenstein Rainer Hasler Lithuania Arminas Narbekovas Luxembourg Louis Pilot Macedonia Darko Pancev Malta Carmel Busuttil Moldova Pavel Cebanu Netherlands Johan Cruijff Northern Ireland Pat Jennings Norway Rune Bratseth Poland Wlodzimierz Lubanski Portugal Eus�bio
Romania Gheorghe Hagi Russia Lev Yashin San Marino Massimo Bonini
Scotland Denis Law Serbia and Montenegro Dragan Dzajic Slovakia J�n Popluh�r Slovenia Brane Oblak Spain Alfredo Di St�fano Sweden Henrik Larsson Switzerland St�phane Chapuisat Turkey Hakan S�k�r Ukraine Oleh Blokhin Wales John Charles

The UEFA Jubilee Poll

UEFA named 250 players (50 for each decade of its existence) to be chosen in a Jubilee Poll by the visitors of the UEFA website. In total 134,796 people casted a vote (each notminating 10 players per decade, making the overall number of votes cast 6,739,800).

Nr player (country) votes

1 Zin�dine Zidane (France) 123,582 2 Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany) 122,569 3 Johan Cruijff (Netherlands) 119,332 4 Marco van Basten (Netherlands) 117,987 5 Dino Zoff (Italy) 114,529

6 Alfredo Di St�fano (Spain) 107,435 7 Eus�bio (Portugal) 103,937 8 Lev Yashin (Soviet Union) 101,862 9 Michel Platini (France) 99,380 10 Paolo Maldini (Italy) 95,497

11 Ferenc Pusk�s (Hungary/Spain) 94,361 12 Paolo Rossi (Italy) 91,194 13 Ruud Gullit (Netherlands) 91,001 14 Bobby Charlton (England) 89,921 15 Lothar Matth�us (West Germany) 86,798

16 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West Germany) 86,649 17 Franco Baresi (Italy) 83,800 18 Gerd M�ller (West Germany) 82,668 19 George Best (N. Ireland) 79,036 20 Kevin Keegan (England) 78,840

21 Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands) 71,333 22 David Beckham (England) 71,299 23 Bobby Moore (England) 70,884 24 Roberto Baggio (Italy) 68,239 25 Michael Laudrup (Denmark) 67,484 26 Ronald Koeman (Netherlands) 66,661 27 Peter Schmeichel (Denmark) 66,463 28 Gheorghe Hagi (Romania) 62,383 29 Sepp Maier (West Germany) 62,375 30 Oliver Kahn (Germany) 58,151

31 Lu�s Figo (Portugal) 58,078 32 Ra�l Gonz�lez (Spain) 56,880 33 Berti Vogts (West Germany) 55,398 34 Johan Neeskens (Netherlands) 54,796 35 Gianni Rivera (Italy) 53,874 36 Jos� Antonio Camacho (Spain) 53,873 37 Marco Tardelli (Italy) 53,732 38 Just Fontaine (France) 53,612 39 Peter Shilton (England) 50,841 40 Bernd Schuster (West Germany) 50,247

41 Raymond Kopa (France) 49,504 42 Eric Cantona (France) 48,436 43 Stanley Matthews (England) 47,915 44 Ruud van Nistelrooij (Netherlands) 47,398 45 Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union) 46,022 46 Gary Lineker (England) 44,787 47 Alessandro Nesta (Italy) 44,667 48 Jos� Emilio Santamar�a (Uruguay/Spain) 43,690 49 Alessandro Del Piero (Italy) 43,227 50 Alessandro Costacurta (Italy) 42,511

51 Kenny Dalglish (Scotland) 36,630 52 Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine) 36,207 53 Germano (Portugal) 35,024 54 Billy Wright (England) not listed 55 Gordon Banks (England) 34,651 56 Zbigniew Boniek (Poland) 34,046 57 Francisco Gento (Spain) 33,871 58 Ruud Krol (Netherlands) 32,799 59 Costa Pereira (Portugal) 32,781 60 Thierry Henry (France) 32,700

61 Duncan Edwards (England) 32,678 62 Claudio Gentile (Italy) 32,533 63 Luis Su�rez (Spain) 32,325 64 J�rgen Klinsmann ((West) Germany) 31,277 65 Andoni Zubizarreta (Spain) 31,035 66 Bruno Conti (Italy) 30,902 67 Laszl�/Ladislao Kubala (Hungary/Spain) 30,516 68 Fritz Walter (West Germany) 29,973 69 Nils Liedholm (Sweden) 29,925 70 Rudi V�ller ((West) Germany) 29,902

71 Igor Netto (Soviet Union) 29,750 72 Paul Gascoigne (England) 29,749 73 Edgar Davids (Netherlands) 29,086 74 Paul Breitner (West Germany) 29,050 75 Fernando Hierro (Spain) 28,612 76 Jean-Pierre Papin (France) 28,044 77 Hristo Stoitchkov (Bulgaria) 28,006 78 Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands) 27,745 79 Emilio Butrague�o (Spain) 27,411 80 Oleh Blokhin (Soviet Union) 27,395

81 Erik Gerets (Belgium) not listed 82 Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Uruguay) not listed 83 Rui Costa (Portugal) 26,838 84 Sandro Mazzola (Italy) 26,679 85 Michel Preud'homme (Belgium) 26,621 86 Giancarlo Antognoni (Italy) 26,268 87 Hansi M�ller (West Germany) 26,224 88 Christian Vieri (Italy) 25,388 89 Omar Sivori (Argentina/Italy) 25,277 90 S�ndor Kocsis (Hungary) 25,125

91 Juanito (Spain) not listed 92 Zvonimir Boban (Croatia) 25,078 93 Branko Zebec (Yugoslavia) 24,747 94 Jos� Juan Altafini (Brazil) 24,673 95 Alain Giresse (France) 24,408 96 Roberto Bettega (Italy) 24,400 97 Rinat Dasaev (Soviet Union) 24,197 98 J�zsef Bozsik (Hungary) 24,086 99 Pirri (Spain) 23,968 100 Luigi Riva (Italy) 23,649

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