Golden Ball nominees announced
November 19, 2002
Soccerage
France
Football magazine have announced their 50 player shortlist for the European
Footballer of the Year award.
Ronaldo
is among seven Real Madrid players and seven Brazilian's named in the list
of the best footballers playing in Europe.
Michael
Owen collected the award last year and is listed again along with fellow
English internationals David Beckham and Rio Ferdinand.
Here
is the full list-in parenthesis country and club.
Pablo
Aimar (ARG-Valencia)
Sonny
Anderson (BRA-Lyon)
Michael
Ballack (GER-Bayern Munich)
Rubén
Baraja (SPA-Valencia)
Yildiray
Bastürk (TUR-Bayer Leverkusen)
David
Beckham (ENG-Manchester United)
Cafu
(BRA-AS Roma)
Djibril
Cissé (FRA-Auxerre)
Alessandro
Del Piero (ITA-Juventus)
Papa
Bouba Diop (SEN-Lens)
El
Hadji Diouf (SEN-Liverpool)
Edmilson
(BRA-Lyon)
Rio
Ferdinand (ENG-Manchester United)
Luis
Figo (POR-Real Madrid)
Ryan
Giggs (WAL-Manchester United)
Hasan
Sas (TUR-Galatasaray)
Thierry
Henry (FRA-Arsenal)
Iker
Casillas (SPA-Real Madrid)
Junichi
Inamoto (JAP-Fulham)
Filippo
Inzaghi (ITA-AC Milan)
Oliver
Kahn (GER-Bayern Munich)
Miroslav
Klose (GER-Kaiserslautern)
Patrick
Kluivert (HOL-Barcelona)
Lucio
(BRA-Bayer Leverkusen)
Luis
Enrique (SPA-Barcelona)
Roy
Makaay (HOL-Deportivo)
Claude
Makelele (FRA-Real Madrid)
Paolo
Maldini (ITA-AC Milan)
Michael
Owen (ENG-Liverpool)
Pauleta
(POR-Bordeaux)
Raúl
González (SPA-Real Madrid)
Rivaldo
(BRA-AC Milan)
Roberto
Carlos (BRA-Real Madrid)
Ronaldinho
(BRA-Paris Saint Germain)
Ronaldo
(BRA-Real Madrid)
Tomáš
Rosický (CZE-Borussia Dortmund)
Saviola
(ARG-Barcelona)
Bernd
Schneider (GER-Bayer Leverkusen)
Seol
Ki-Hyeon (KOR-Feyenoord)
Jon
Dahl Tomasson (DAN-AC Milan)
Francesco
Totti (ITA-AS Roma)
David
Trezeguet (FRA-Juventus)
Juan
Carlos Valerón (SPA-Deportivo)
Pierre
Van Hooijdonk (HOL-PSV)
Ruud
van Nistelrooij (HOL-Manchester United)
Patrick
Vieira (FRA-Arsenal)
Christian
Vieri (ITA-Inter)
Marc
Wilmots (BEL-Schalke)
Sylvain
Wiltord (FRA-Arsenal)
Zinedine
Zidane (FRA-Real Madrid)
.
