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    World Player of the Year award

    Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard are on Fifa's 30-man shortlist for World Player of the Year award.
    That trio of players are among 12 Premiership players in contention for the prize, with Arsenal's Thierry Henry seen as a front-runner for the award.

    Last year's winner was Brazilian Ronaldinho, who also won in 2004.

    This year's competition is expected to come down to a contest between striker Henry and Fabio Cannavaro, captain of World Cup winners Italy.

    Chelsea are the most represented club with six players on the shortlist: Lampard, Petr Cech of the Czech Republic, Ghana's Michael Essien, Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast, Germany's Michael Ballack and Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko.

    Former France midfielder Zinedine Zidane, sent off in the World Cup final in Berlin, is also included on the shortlist.

    Zidane retired from soccer after France lost to Italy in the final on 9 July 9, his career ending with a head-butt on defender Marco Materazzi 10 minutes before the end of extra time.

    Zidane, Ronaldinho and Inter Milan's Portuguese midfielder Luis Figo are the only men on the shortlist to have previously won the Fifa gong.

    Zidane has already claimed the honour three times, as a Juventus player in 1998 and 2000 and with Real Madrid in 2003. Figo won the award in 2001 during his time with Real Madrid.

    The head coaches and captains of all national teams will now vote for their best players from the shortlist.

    The prize will be awarded in Zurich on 18 December.
    The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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    #2
    Lampard?

    FLMAO.

    I just don't get it.
    I hate Polanski

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      #3
      i know obviously they have not been watching him lately
      The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

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        #4
        Zidane?

        3 good games at the world cup does not a "world player of the year" make.

        Don't even get me started on Lampard being included.

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          #5
          Too right.

          Tough call this year...I'm not sure any one individual has really stood out consistently.
          Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’

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            #6
            That list is effectively just big name players in the top 5 leagues.

            Some of them have done little or nothing to be on that shortlist.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Rosco
              That list is effectively just big name players in the top 5 leagues.

              Some of them have done little or nothing to be on that shortlist.
              Couldn't agree more.

              Based on reputation and pay cheque more than actual form this year.

              EDIT: Fixed something for pedants .
              Last edited by TheStig; 12-10-06, 10:57 PM.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Rosco
                That list is effectively just big name players in the top 5 leagues.

                Some of them have done little or nothing to be on that shortlist.
                Yup, it was exactly the same last year. Some players who'd had serious losses of form, and some players who'd been out for months and months and done nothing on their comebacks (van Nistelrooy springs to mind, but there were far worse candidates).
                Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’

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                  #9
                  It's a load of crap anyway because it's a team sport. The only things that matter are trophies.
                  .
                  Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



                  May the Lord bless this post.

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                    #10
                    Neither Lampard or Rooney have played well in a very long time. I don't know how they got on the list.

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                      #11
                      essian baffles me i must say

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                        #12
                        Essien and Drogba were both mediocre last season
                        "The definition of insanity is not running into the same wall again and again; it's expecting a different result every time you do it."

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                          #13
                          Lampard! His inclusion completely undermines the honour, useless fat cockney ******.
                          No matter how far back you seem, when you're blessed with class, anything is possible. Chris Bascombe Sep 21 2006

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                            #14
                            Give it to cannavaro. He was the player of the world cup and got robbed by zidane for player of the tournament. Juve's dodgyness might lose it for him though
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                              #15
                              Originally posted by CharlieMansonsSquint
                              Lampard?

                              FLMAO.

                              I just don't get it.

                              Me neither
                              I live with Steptoe.

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