Apart from Steven Gerrard winning the award for 2008-09. The last Liverpool player to win it was John Barnes back in 1989/90.
In the year 1992 the dutch footballer Marco Van Basten won the footballer of the year.
Denis Law
The footballer who won the F.I.F.a award was the Liberian footballer George Weah, or King George as he was called at A.C.Milan . He won it in 1995.
Martha of Brazil won the lady footballer of the year 2008.
Luis Figo from Portugal won the footballer of the year in 2001.
The Brazilian Ronaldhino won won the 2005 footballer of the year.
The World Footballer of the Year award only began in 1991, so there was no Word Footballer of the Year in 1970.
The Brazilian Ronaldo Lima won the fifa footballer of the year in 2002
Ronaldo Lima of Brazil won the F.I.F.A footballer of the year in 2002. Ronaldo is the youngest player to win this award at 20 years, and he is the only footballer beside Zinedine Zidane to win the footballer of the year on three different times.
The German captain Lothar Mathaeus won the first footballer of the year in 1991.
Cristiano Ronaldo was playing for Manchester United in 2008 when he was named FIFA World Player of the Year. He was the first Premiership footballer to be given this award.
Lothar Matthäus.