World Soccer Magazine Player of the Decade Rankings

censuspro · 28-01-2010 5:05pm #1

I know Ronaldinho won player of the decade but does anyone know if they published the rankings? I tried a google search and cant find them?

CHD · 28-01-2010 5:11pm

How did Richard Dunne do?

CHD · 28-01-2010 5:13pm

Google gave me this http://www.worldsoccer.com/Awards/index.php

World Player of the Decade points
1 Ronaldinho 781
2 Lionel Messi 759
3 Cristiano Ronaldo 708
4 Thierry Henry 619
5 Kaka 567
6 Fabio Cannavaro 401
7 Pavel Nedved 394
8 Michael Owen 330
9 Luis Figo 290
10 Zinedine Zidane 270
11 Raul 261
12 Ronaldo 260
13 Andriy Shevchenko 230
14 Andres Iniesta 215
15 Michael Ballack 180
16 Xavi 163
17 Rivaldo 150
18 Fernando Torres 149
19= Samuel Eto'o 146
19= Frank Lampard 146
21 Steven Gerrard 134
22 Deco 130
23 Francesco Totti 107
24 Ruud Van Nistrelrooy 99
25 Oliver Kahn 90
26 Paolo Maldini 82
27 Didier Drogba 79
28 Juan Roman Riquelme 77
29 Adriano 73
30 Iker Casillas 59
31 Andrei Arshavin 54
32 Zlatan Ibrahimovic 53
33 Gianluigi Buffon 49
34 David Villa 46
35 Roy Makaay 40
36 David Beckham 37
37 Wayne Rooney 36
38 Diego Forlan 21
39= Gabriel Batistuta 20
39= Henrik Larsson 20

_blank_ · 28-01-2010 5:13pm

no Gary Breen?

lol

SlickRic · 28-01-2010 5:16pm

Owen at 8.

there are no words...

Morzadec · 28-01-2010 5:16pm

Michael Owen higher than Zidane?!

censuspro · 28-01-2010 5:20pm

Where is Roy Keane?

RandolphEsq · 28-01-2010 5:20pm

Rooney all the way back there? Rivaldo?!? This decade?!

patmac · 28-01-2010 5:23pm

SlickRic wrote: »

Owen at 8.

there are no words...

They probably did the poll immediately after he got the hat-trick against Wolfsburg

redout · 28-01-2010 5:27pm

Zidane played seven years of the decade and is ranked 10th!

Load of bollox.

Morzadec · 28-01-2010 5:32pm

RandolphEsq wrote: »

Rooney all the way back there? Rivaldo?!? This decade?!

Would't argue with Rivaldo, he was amazing and was arguably the best the player in Brazil's 2002 World Cup winning team (certainly in the top 3). That team pissed all over everyone else in the world in 2002 and Rivaldo was a massive part of that if I recall correctly.

He was a class act, 17 is pretty low down for how good he was imo.

EDIT: Although I suppose he was only playing at the top level for 3 or 4 years of the decade if they're taking this into account.

censuspro · 28-01-2010 5:34pm

I'd hazard a guess that World Soccer Magazine has a large circulation in the USA based on the magazine name so that may contort the votes somewhat.

Be that as it may, the ballots are in and the votes have been counted.