FIFA World Player Of The Year Shortlist
FIFA revealed 30-man shortlist for FIFA World Player of the Year 2006 award. The best player will be awarded on 18 December in Zurich. Ronaldinho, winner of this award on the last two occasions, will have the opportunity to defend his title.
FIFA World Player Of The Year Shortlist:
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), Ronaldinho (Barcelona, Brazil), 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).
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Roland Filmore Yarn said,
November 1, 2006 @ 3:29 pm
I Feel that Ronaldhino should maintain his title as FIFA world player of the year.
Digafe Denbu said,
November 11, 2006 @ 6:51 am
We had seen two consecutive unfair selection which awarded to Zidane(2003) and Ronaldinho(2004) both should have been belong to Hennery,i hope you will not do the same mistake this year award by any means should be given to TT because every body Knows his last year performance and do not forget that is finalist two wrld big occasions( Fifa Wold Cup & European champions Leauge)!!!!!
mohsin said,
November 30, 2006 @ 10:40 am
in my view zinedine zidane is fifa 2006 player of the year
Samba Skills » Blog Archive » 2006 said,
March 15, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
[…] Although Brazil went into the 2006 World Cup as strong favourites, they were rather lack-lustre throughout the tournament. Ronaldinho, especially, failed to recreate the form which had won him the FIFAWorld Player of the Year award. They were knocked out in the quarter-finals by France. […]
jama dahir said,
December 5, 2007 @ 2:44 am
i could say Cristiano Ronaldo is the BEST FIFA world player of the year since he has been playing well for his club (man utd) and also for his country during the world cup. that is my opinion