Wikipedia:
2006 FIFA World Player of the Year
The 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year prize was awarded to the Italian Fabio Cannavaro for the first time. He finished ahead of the retired Midfielder Zinedine Zidane, who won the Golden Ball at the World Cup and the winner of the last FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho in the final round of voting.
Results
| Rank | Player | Points | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Fabio
Cannavaro |
499 |  Real
Madrid Juventus |
| 2 |  Zinedine Zidane |
454 | Real
Madrid |
| 3 |  Ronaldinho |
380 | Barcelona |
| 4 | Thierry Henry |
317 |  Arsenal |
| 5 |  Samuel Eto'o |
300 | Barcelona |
| 6 |  Didier Drogba |
150 | Chelsea |
| 7 | Kaká |
139 | AC
Milan |
| 8 | Gianluigi Buffon |
118 | Juventus |
| 9 |  Zlatan Ibrahimović |
86 | Internazionale Juventus |
| 10 |  Cristiano Ronaldo |
69 | Manchester United |
| 11 |  Michael Ballack |
53 | Chelsea Bayern Munich |
| 12 | Steven Gerrard |
48 | Liverpool |
| 13 | Miroslav Klose |
46 | Werder Bremen |
| 14 | Frank Lampard |
31 | Chelsea |
| 15 | Deco |
25 | Barcelona |
| 16 | Luís
Figo |
20 | Internazionale Real
Madrid |
| 17 |  Juan Román Riquelme |
16 | Villarreal |
| 17 | Franck Ribéry |
16 | Marseille |
| 17 | Wayne Rooney |
16 | Manchester United |
| 20 | Gennaro Gattuso |
15 | AC
Milan |
| 21 |  Andriy Shevchenko |
14 | Chelsea AC
Milan |
| 22 | Patrick Vieira |
13 | Internazionale Juventus |
| 22 |  Michael Essien |
13 | Chelsea |
| 24 | 
Petr Čech |
11 | Chelsea |
| 25 | Alessandro Nesta |
9 | AC
Milan |
| 26 | Lilian Thuram |
8 | Barcelona Juventus |
| 27 | Jens
Lehmann |
6 | Arsenal |
| 28 | Philipp Lahm |
3 | Bayern Munich |
| 29 | Adriano |
2 | Internazionale |
See also
|
|||||||||||||
|
International football
|
|||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
