World Soccer

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World Soccer
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description English sports magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Soccer
language English
publishing company IPC Media
First edition 1960
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 40,000 copies
( [1] )
Range 0.38 million readers
( [2] )
Editor-in-chief Gavin Hamilton
Web link www.worldsoccer.com

World Soccer is an English-language football magazine from IPC Media from Great Britain . It appears monthly and specializes in the international football scene. Editor-in-chief is Gavin Hamilton and writer Brian Glanville makes regular contributions . World Soccer is a founding member of ESM ( European Sports Media ), an association of soccer publications.

World Soccer has been honoring the player, coach and team of the year since 1982. In 2005, the magazine's best young player and referee of the year received a title for the first time. The December 1999 issue published a reader survey on the 100 greatest footballers of the 20th century. Pelé won this election.

Award winners

Player of the year

List of all players of the year:

Most voted players

rank Surname Number of elections
1 PortuguesePortuguese Cristiano Ronaldo 5
ArgentiniansArgentinians Lionel Messi
3 BrazilianBrazilian Ronaldo 3
4th DutchDutch Ruud Gullit 2
FrenchmanFrenchman Michel Platini
BrazilianBrazilian Ronaldinho
DutchDutch Marco van Basten
8th ItalianItalian Roberto Baggio 1
ItalianItalian Fabio Cannavaro
PortuguesePortuguese Luís Figo
BrazilianBrazilian Kaká
ItalianItalian Paolo Maldini
ArgentiniansArgentinians Diego Maradona
GermanGerman Lothar Matthäus
CroatianCroatian Luka Modrić
CzechCzech Pavel Nedvěd
English peopleEnglish people Michael Owen
FrenchmanFrenchman Jean-Pierre Papin
BrazilianBrazilian Rivaldo
ItalianItalian Paolo Rossi
ItalianItalian Gianluca Vialli
SpaniardsSpaniards Xavi
BrazilianBrazilian Zico
FrenchmanFrenchman Zinedine Zidane

... by country

rank country Number of elections
1 Flag of BrazilFlag of Brazil Brazil 8th
2 Flag of ArgentinaFlag of Argentina Argentina 6th
Flag of PortugalFlag of Portugal Portugal
3 Flag of italyFlag of italy Italy 5
5 Flag of franceFlag of france France 4th
Flag of the NetherlandsFlag of the Netherlands Netherlands
7th Flag of GermanyFlag of Germany BR Germany 1
Flag of englandFlag of england England
Flag of CroatiaFlag of Croatia Croatia
Flag of SpainFlag of Spain Spain
Flag of the Czech RepublicFlag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic

Coach of the year

List of all coaches of the year:

Young player of the year

List of all young players of the year:

Referee of the year

List of all referees of the year:

Team of the year

List of all teams of the year:

  • 1982 - Brazilian National Team (30%)Brazil 1968Brazil 
  • 1983 - Hamburger SV (29%)Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany 
  • 1984 - French national team (45%)FranceFrance 
  • 1985 Everton FC (42%)EnglandEngland 
  • 1986 - Argentina national team (15%)ArgentinaArgentina
  • 1987 - FC Porto (38%)PortugalPortugal 
  • 1988 - Dutch national team (43%)NetherlandsNetherlands
  • 1989 - AC Milan (51%)ItalyItaly
  • 1990 - German national team (28%)GermanyGermany
  • 1991 - French national team (20%)FranceFrance
  • 1992 - Danish national team (37%)DenmarkDenmark
  • 1993 - Parma FC (24%)ItalyItaly 
  • 1994 - AC Milan (33%)ItalyItaly
  • 1995 - Ajax Amsterdam (50%)NetherlandsNetherlands
  • 1996 - Nigerian national team (31%)NigeriaNigeria 
  • 1997 - Borussia Dortmund (20%)GermanyGermany
  • 1998 - French national team (35%)FranceFrance
  • 1999 - Manchester United (61%)EnglandEngland
  • 2000 - French national team (33%)FranceFrance
  • 2001 - Liverpool FC (26%)EnglandEngland
  • 2002 - Brazilian National Team (24%)BrazilBrazil
  • 2003 - AC Milan (23%)ItalyItaly
  • 2004 - Greek National Team (25%)GreeceGreece 
  • 2005 - Liverpool FC (26.7%)EnglandEngland
  • 2006 - FC Barcelona (42.3%)SpainSpain
  • 2007 - Brazilian National Team (72%)BrazilBrazil
  • 2008 - Spanish national teamSpainSpain 
  • 2009 - FC Barcelona (75.9%)SpainSpain
  • 2010 - Spanish national team (63.3%)SpainSpain
  • 2011 - FC Barcelona (44.2%)SpainSpain
  • 2012 - Spanish national team (47.4%)SpainSpain
  • 2013 - FC Bayern Munich (96.7%)GermanyGermany 
  • 2014 - German national teamGermanyGermany
  • 2015 - FC BarcelonaSpainSpain
  • 2016 - Leicester CityEnglandEngland
  • 2017 - Real MadridSpainSpain
  • 2018 - French national teamFranceFrance
  • 2019 - Liverpool FCEnglandEngland

The 100 greatest players of the 20th century

(elected in December 1999)

  1. BrazilianBrazilian Pelé
  2. ArgentiniansArgentinians Diego Maradona
  3. DutchDutch Johan Cruyff
  4. GermanGerman Franz Beckenbauer
  5. FrenchmanFrenchman Michel Platini
  6. SpaniardsSpaniards Alfredo Di Stéfano
  7. HungarianHungarian Ferenc Puskás
  8. Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland George Best
  9. DutchDutch Marco van Basten
  10. PortuguesePortuguese Eusebio
  11. SovietSoviet Lev Ivanovich Yashin
  12. English peopleEnglish people Bobby Charlton
  13. BrazilianBrazilian Ronaldo
  14. English peopleEnglish people Bobby Moore
  15. GermanGerman Gerd Müller
  16. ItalianItalian Roberto Baggio
  17. English peopleEnglish people Stanley Matthews
  18. BrazilianBrazilian Zico
  19. ItalianItalian Franco Baresi
  20. BrazilianBrazilian Garrincha
  21. ItalianItalian Paolo Maldini
  22. BulkheadsBulkheads Kenny Dalglish
  23. ArgentiniansArgentinians Gabriel Batistuta
  24. FrenchmanFrenchman Eric Cantona
  25. RomanianRomanian Gheorghe Hagi
  26. BrazilianBrazilian Romario
  27. BrazilianBrazilian Jairzinho
  28. FrenchmanFrenchman Zinedine Zidane
  29. DutchDutch Ruud Gullit
  30. WelshFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg John Charles
  31. GermanGerman Lothar Matthäus
  32. English peopleEnglish people Gordon Banks
  33. GermanGerman Jürgen Klinsmann
  34. DutchDutch Dennis Bergkamp
  35. GermanGerman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
  36. English peopleEnglish people Gary Lineker
  37. ItalianItalian Giuseppe Meazza
  38. BrazilianBrazilian Roberto Rivelino
  39. BrazilianBrazilian Valdir Pereira
  40. WelshFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ian Rush
  41. DaneDane Peter Schmeichel
  42. ItalianItalian Paolo Rossi
  43. LiberiansLiberians George Weah
  44. English peopleEnglish people Michael Owen
  45. FrenchmanFrenchman Just Fontaine
  46. English peopleEnglish people Duncan Edwards
  47. ItalianItalian Dino Zoff
  48. BulgarianBulgarian Christo Stoitschkow
  49. English peopleEnglish people David Beckham
  50. English peopleEnglish people Tom Finney
  51. BrazilianBrazilian Rivaldo
  52. ArgentiniansArgentinians Claudio Caniggia
  53. BrazilianBrazilian Tostao
  54. DutchDutch Frank Rijkaard
  55. ParaguayansParaguayans José Luis Chilavert
  56. English peopleEnglish people Kevin Keegan
  57. English peopleEnglish people Paul Gascoigne
  58. CamerooniansCameroonians Roger Milla
  59. DaneDane Michael Laudrup
  60. UkrainiansUkrainians Andrij Shevchenko
  61. FrenchmanFrenchman David Ginola
  62. English peopleEnglish people Glenn Hoddle
  63. BrazilianBrazilian Sócrates
  64. BrazilBrazil Roberto Carlos
  65. English peopleEnglish people Alan Shearer
  66. ArgentiniansArgentinians Daniel Passarella
  67. CroatianCroatian Before that, Šuker
  68. English peopleEnglish people Dixie Dean
  69. UngerUnger Sándor Kocsis
  70. UruguayanUruguayan ItalianItalian Juan Schiaffino
  71. ItalianItalian Christian Vieri
  72. ArgentiniansArgentinians Mario Kempes
  73. DutchDutch Johan Neeskens
  74. ItalianItalian Luigi Riva
  75. UruguayanUruguayan José Nasazzi
  76. GermanGerman Günter Netzer
  77. ItalianItalian Alessandro Del Piero
  78. ColombiansColombians Carlos Valderrama
  79. SpaniardsSpaniards Ricardo Zamora
  80. UruguayanUruguayan Enzo Francescoli
  81. DutchDutch Edgar Davids
  82. SpaniardsSpaniards Francisco Gento
  83. BulkheadsBulkheads Jim Baxter
  84. BrazilianBrazilian Paulo Roberto Falcão
  85. WelshFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Giggs
  86. GermanGerman Sepp Maier
  87. PolePole Zbigniew Boniek
  88. Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Pat Jennings
  89. UngerUnger György Sárosi
  90. ItalianItalian Giacinto Facchetti
  91. BulkheadsBulkheads Alan Hansen
  92. FrenchmanFrenchman Raymond Kopa
  93. English peopleEnglish people Bryan Robson
  94. GermanGerman Matthias Sammer
  95. UngerUnger SlovakSlovak SpaniardsSpaniards László Kubala
  96. WelshFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Neville Southall
  97. BrazilianBrazilian Gérson de Oliveira Nunes - "Gerson"
  98. PortuguesePortuguese Paulo Futre
  99. DaneDane Preben Elkjær Larsen
  100. BrazilianBrazilian Bebeto

( Attention: This election should not be confused with the election of the Player of the Century, also carried out in 1999, but by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics , in which only the best 10 players were determined )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Overview of all former award winners (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Lionel Messi voted World Soccer's Player of the Year (English)
  3. ↑ a b c Lionel Messi wins World Soccer Player of the Year award (English)
  4. ↑ a b c Cristiano Ronaldo is World Soccer's Player of the Year 2013 (English)
  5. ↑ a b c Cristiano Ronaldo voted World Soccer Player of the Year (English)
  6. ↑ a b c Ronaldo leads Real Madrid's clean sweep of World Soccer awards (English)
  7. ↑ a b c Luka Modric Named World Player Of The Year In World Soccer Awards (English)
  8. ↑ a b c World Soccer January 2020 - World Soccer Awards Issue. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (American English).
  9. ↑ http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamHons/HonsWldSocPlyrsCent.html Choice of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century on englandfootballonline.com.