Kachlex, ma a questa votazione hai partecipato anche tu? Sei stato un pallone d'oro a nostra insaputa?
France Football's Football Player of the Century
The French weekly magazine France-Football consulted their former "Ballon D'Or" winners to elect the Football Player of the Century. Among the 34 former "Ballon D'Or" winners (from 1956 to 1999) only 30 of the voted:
Matthews, Sivori and Best refused to vote, and Yashin is dead.
Each of the 30 voters choose 5 players: 5 points for the 1st place, 4 points for 2nd, 3 points for 3rd, 2 points for 4th and 1 point for 5th. But Di Stefano only choose a 1st place, Platini a 1st and 2nd place, and Weah 2 players for 5th place (giving ½ point to each one). After each player points, between brackets is the number of votes for every place.
1. Edson Arantes do Nascimento "PELÉ" (Brazil) ------ 122 pts (17 - 5 - 4 - 2 - 1)
2. Diego MARADONA (Argentina) --------------------- 65 ( 3 - 6 - 5 - 5 - 1)
3. Johan CRUYFF (Netherlands) --------------------- 62 ( 1 - 4 - 7 - 9 - 2)
4. Alfredo DI STEFANO (Argentina/Spain) ------------ 44 ( 4 - 3 - 3 - 1 - 1)
5. Michel PLATINI (France) -------------------------- 40 ( 1 - 5 - 1 - 3 - 6)
6. Franz BECKENBAUER (Germany) ------------------- 35 ( 2 - 1 - 3 - 3 - 6)
7. Ferenc PUSKAS (Hungary) ------------------------ 12 ( 0 - 3 - 0 - 0 - 0)
8. Marco VAN BASTEN (Netherlands) ---------------- 11 ( 0 - 0 - 3 - 1 - 0)
9. Artur Antunes Coimbra "ZICO" (Brazil) -------------- 7 ( 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0)
10. Gerd MÜLLER (Germany) -------------------------- 5 ( 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0)
---Lev YASHIN (Soviet Union) ------------------------ 5 ( 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1)
12. Enzo FRANCESCOLI (Uruguay) -------------------- 4 ( 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0)
--- Manoel Francisco dos Santos "GARRINCHA" (Brazil) - 4 ( 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1)
--- George BEST (Northern Ireland) ------------------- 4 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 0)
15. Rafael GORDILLO (Spain)-------------------------- 3 ( 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0)
16. Bobby CHARLTON (England) ---------------------- 2.5 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 3)
17. ROMÁRIO de Souza Faria (Brazil) ------------------ 2 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0)
18. Roberto BAGGIO (Italy) --------------------------- 1 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1)
--- Oleg BLOKHIN (Soviet Union) ----------------------1 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1)
--- Just FONTAINE (France) -------------------------- 1 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1)
--- Raymond KOPA (France) -------------------------- 1 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1)
--- Fritz WALTER (Germany) -------------------------- 1 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1)
--- Dino ZOFF (Italy) --------------------------------- 1 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1)
24. Roger MILLA (Cameroon)--------------------------- 0.5 ( 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1)