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Zidane, FIFA World Player of Year 2003
15/12/2003
Zinedine Zidane has beaten Henry (second) and Ronaldo (third) in the vote for the 13th FIFA World Player selected by the national coaches of all countries in the FIFA body. This is Zizou's third accolade as World Player, following the 1998 and 2000's awards. Ronaldo, who stood third, is now level with his team-mate as he has already won it on three occasions (1996, 1997 and 2002). Florentino Pérez attended the award-giving ceremony at which two of his men were crowned. But there were more good news for the white club, as the gala held in Basle was also the chance to acknowledge six white players among the world top eleven footballers. Roberto Carlos, Beckham, Raúl and Figo were some of the selected players.
After counting all the 142 votes cast by the national coaches of the FIFA countries, Zidane has been crowned as FIFA World Player of the Year 2003. The French footballer achieves has hit this award for a third time, following his accolades in 1998 and 2000. Thierry Henry did not beat his country man and had to stand as second-best with 58 votes behind the winner. Ronaldo is the third one in the triumvirate of winners. Real striker did not repeat his last year's success at the Gala held in Madrid. He got 176 votes.

The brilliance of the French midfielder has been acknowledged on three occasions: Barcelona 1998, Rome 2000 and Basle 2003. Nobody can deny the quality and character in every one of his actions. Ronaldo is no longer a lonely three-time winner, now he will be enjoying this honour with his Real Madrid mate. 31-year-old Zidane has achieved all awards a player can possibly win, some of them repeatedly. Soon there will be more awards announced like the Golden Ball and Onze d'Or, both of which enjoy lots of prestige too. Zidane is, no doubt, candidate for them once again.

Real Madrid has made a clean sweep of candidates at the Basle Gala. Florentino Pérez was there as head of the white club to see six of his players among the top eleven achievers. Roberto Carlos stood fifth, Beckham seventh, Raúl was eighth and Luis Figo was standing at the eleventh position. They all attended the Gala held in Basle, as they are playing the "Match Against Poverty" tonight at Saint Jakob-Park.

RESULTS:
1. Zinedine Zidane: 264 votes.
2. Thierry Henry: 186 votes.
3. Ronaldo: 176 votes.
4. Pavel Nedved: 158 votes.
5. Roberto Carlos: 105 votes.
6. Ruud Van Nistelrooy: 86 votes.
7. David Beckham: 70 votes.
8. Raúl González: 39 votes.
9. Paolo Maldini: 37 votes.
10. Andrei Shevchenko: 26 votes.
11. Luis Figo: 17 votes.

ZINEDINE ZIDANE'S TRACK RECORD:

1 World Cupl (1998)
1 Euro Cup (2000)
1 European Cup (2002)
2 Europe Super Cups (1996 y 2002)
2 Intercontinental Cups (1996 y 2002)
1 Spanish Liga (2003)
2 Italian League (1997 y 98)
2 Spanish Super Cups (2001 y 03)
1 Italian Super Cups (1997)
1 Golden Ball (1998)
3 FIFA World Player (1998, 2000 y 03).
3 Onze d’Or (1998, 2000 y 01)

Realmadrid.com users showed the way to the national coaches. In the poll conducted by the web site, the fans selected Zinedine Zidane by 54,9 % of the vote (24,927) and Ronaldo got 45,1% (20,415). As many as 45.342 web page users participated in the election of FIFA World Player of the Year 2003. Thanks a lot!

There were more awards given at the FIFA 2003 Gala. Brazil got the Top Team title; German player Birgit Prinz was selected Female Player of the Year, ahead of Mia Hamm and Hanna Ljunberg; the Fair Play award went to Glasgow Celtic supporters; Bahrein was the Best Mover and the Presidential Award went to the Iraqi Football Community.

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