FIFA World Player of the Year 2006

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World Footballer of the Year 2006
Fabio Cannavaro

The FIFA World Player of the Year 2006 (then still FIFA World Player ) was chosen on December 18, 2006 in the Zurich Opera House . It was the 16th award of the “ World Footballer of the Year ” award introduced by the FIFA World Cup in 1991 . The winner of the award was the Italian Fabio Cannavaro .

Voting mode

The winner was determined by a vote among 165 national coaches and 165 national team captains. They each named the three best footballers in their opinion, although none of the three were allowed to come from their own country. An entry in first place brought five points, a second place three points, the third place one point. Then the points were added.

Result

  • Placement : the placement achieved by a player.
  • Name : Name of the awarded player.
  • Nationality : Nationality of the awarded player.
  • Club : Club for which the player was active in the calendar year. If a player has changed clubs, the club who is leaving is named in first position.
  • Votes : the total votes received from all countries.
placement Surname nationality society be right
1. Fabio Cannavaro ItalyItaly Italy ItalyItaly Juventus Turin / Real MadridSpainSpain  498
2. Zinedine Zidane FranceFrance France SpainSpain real Madrid 454
3. Ronaldinho BrazilBrazil Brazil SpainSpain FC Barcelona 380
4th Thierry Henry FranceFrance France EnglandEngland Arsenal FC 317
5. Samuel Eto'o CameroonCameroon Cameroon SpainSpain FC Barcelona 300
6th Didier Drogba Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast EnglandEngland Chelsea FC 150
7th Kaká BrazilBrazil Brazil ItalyItaly AC Milan 139
8th. Gianluigi Buffon ItalyItaly Italy ItalyItaly Juventus Turin 118
9. Zlatan Ibrahimović SwedenSweden Sweden ItalyItaly Juventus Turin / Inter MilanItalyItaly  86
10. Cristiano Ronaldo PortugalPortugal Portugal EnglandEngland Manchester United 69
11. Michael Ballack GermanyGermany Germany GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich / FC ChelseaEnglandEngland  53
12. Steven Gerrard EnglandEngland England EnglandEngland Liverpool FC 48
13. Miroslav Klose GermanyGermany Germany GermanyGermany Werder Bremen 46
14th Frank Lampard EnglandEngland England EnglandEngland Chelsea FC 31
15th Deco PortugalPortugal Portugal SpainSpain FC Barcelona 25th
16. Luís Figo PortugalPortugal Portugal ItalyItaly Inter Milan 20th
17th Juan Román Riquelme ArgentinaArgentina Argentina SpainSpain Villarreal CF 16
Franck Ribery FranceFrance France FranceFrance Olympique Marseille 16
Wayne Rooney EnglandEngland England EnglandEngland Manchester United 16
20th Gennaro Gattuso ItalyItaly Italy ItalyItaly AC Milan 15th
21st Andrij Shevchenko UkraineUkraine Ukraine ItalyItaly AC Milan / Chelsea FCEnglandEngland  14th
22nd Michael Essien GhanaGhana Ghana EnglandEngland Chelsea FC 13
Patrick Vieira FranceFrance France ItalyItaly Juventus Turin / Inter MilanItalyItaly  13
24. Petr Čech Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic EnglandEngland Chelsea FC 11
25th Alessandro Nesta ItalyItaly Italy ItalyItaly AC Milan 9
26th Lilian Thuram FranceFrance France ItalyItaly Juventus Turin / FC BarcelonaSpainSpain  8th
27. Jens Lehmann GermanyGermany Germany EnglandEngland Arsenal FC 6th
28. Philipp Lahm GermanyGermany Germany GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich 3
29 Rafael Marquez MexicoMexico Mexico SpainSpain FC Barcelona 2
Adriano BrazilBrazil Brazil ItalyItaly Inter Milan 2

Individual evidence

  1. Cannavaro and Marta triumph. In: fifa.com. FIFA , accessed November 8, 2014 .