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The world footballer of year

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 9/27/2023

In 1988, Marco Van Basten won the first of his 3 Ballon D'or (European Footballer of the Year) awards. In second place and third place were Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard, respectively. All three players played for AC Milan at the time.

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∙ 13y ago

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Peele was known to be the "legend" he was a VERY good soccer player!!

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∙ 13y ago

Zinedine Zidane, followed by Luis Figo and Rivaldo. The full list of winners is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Player_of_the_Year#List_of_male_winners

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∙ 15y ago

The 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year is Lionel Messi, Argentina and Barcelona.

Second placed was Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal and Real Madrid). Third was Xavi (Spain and Barcelona)

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∙ 15y ago

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