Ballon d'Or 2007

The 52 Ballon d'Or (French for Golden Ball ) of the magazine France Football was first awarded for the world's best footballer of the year 2007. From 1956 to 2006, this trophy was awarded European Footballer of the Year. It is not identical with the allocated by FIFA since 1991 Award World Player of the Year.

The first determined under this new regulation winner, the Brazilian Kaka was publicly announced on 2 December 2007. He won the Ballon d'Or in 2007 well ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. None of these three players had been in the previous year in the top ten; also last year's winner Fabio Cannavaro landed in 2007 with five points far behind on rank 24, Kaká was on 95 of the 96 ballots, including 78 times at No. 1; only the juror from Bosnia- Herzegovina gave him no point.

Voting procedure

The prize is awarded by a currently 96 - member jury, which is composed wiefolgt:

  • Ever a sports writer from the countries of the 53 UEFA member associations
  • Ever a sports writer from the current 43 countries of those non-European organizations that have participated in at least one World Cup finals.

Each judge will award five players from the set by the France- Football - editors list of 50 proposals 5, 4, 3, 2 or one point. The total power of the player is to be assessed in the respective calendar year. If two or more players get the highest score in the aggregate, there would be a runoff.

Result

Although Paolo Maldini was only three ballots ( eight points), but once it even on the first place. From the gambling in Germany ten candidates Franck Ribery, Diego, Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni were given zero points.

Candidates

The editors had suggested the following 50 players, of which only four not currently play at a club in Europe:

  • Éric Abidal (Lyon / FC Barcelona)
  • Daniel Alves ( FC Sevilla)
  • David Beckham (Real Madrid / Los Angeles Galaxy)
  • Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham )
  • Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus Turin)
  • Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid)
  • Iker Casillas (Real Madrid)
  • Petr Čech ( Chelsea)
  • Rogério Ceni ( Sao Paulo FC )
  • Deco ( FC Barcelona)
  • Mahamadou Diarra (Real Madrid)
  • Diego ( Bremen)
  • Didier Drogba ( Chelsea)
  • Michael Essien ( Chelsea)
  • Samuel Eto'o (FC Barcelona)
  • Cesc Fàbregas ( Arsenal)
  • Gennaro Gattuso (AC Milan )
  • Steven Gerrard ( Liverpool)
  • Ryan Giggs ( Manchester United)
  • Thierry Henry ( Arsenal / FC Barcelona)
  • Zlatan Ibrahimović ( Inter Milan )
  • Filippo Inzaghi (AC Milan )
  • Kaká ( AC Milan )
  • Frederic Kanoute ( Sevilla )
  • Miroslav Klose (Bayern Munich)
  • Mahmud Yunis (Al- Gharafa )
  • Paolo Maldini (AC Milan )
  • Florent Malouda (Lyon / Chelsea)
  • Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona)
  • Shunsuke Nakamura (Celtic Glasgow )
  • Guillermo Ochoa (America Mexico)
  • Andrea Pirlo (AC Milan )
  • Ricardo Quaresma ( FC Porto )
  • Raúl (Real Madrid)
  • Franck Ribery (Marseille / Munich)
  • Juan Roman Riquelme ( Boca Juniors / Villarreal)
  • Robinho (Real Madrid)
  • Ronaldinho ( FC Barcelona)
  • Cristiano Ronaldo ( Manchester United)
  • Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)
  • Paul Scholes ( Manchester United)
  • Clarence Seedorf (AC Milan )
  • Luca Toni (Florence / Munich)
  • Fernando Torres ( Atletico Madrid / Liverpool)
  • Francesco Totti ( AS Roma )
  • Kolo Toure (Arsenal )
  • Ruud van Nistelrooy (Real Madrid)
  • Robin van Persie ( Arsenal)
  • David Villa ( Valencia)

Statistics

All information is from France Football on 4 December 2007, pp. 4-52

Votes of the editors from German speaking countries

  • Germany ( Sports Information Service): 1 Kaka, Messi 2, 3 Ribéry, 4th C. Ronaldo, 5th Kanoute
  • Liechtenstein ( Liechtenstein Fatherland): 1 Kaká, 2nd Alves, 3rd Pirlo, Ronaldinho 4, 5 Gerrard
  • Luxembourg (La Voix du Luxembourg ): 1 Kaka, C. Ronaldo 2nd, 3rd Drogba, Messi 4, 5 Gerrard
  • Austria ( ORF Sport ): 1 Kaka, Messi 2nd, 3rd C. Ronaldo, Inzaghi 4, 5 Čech
  • Switzerland (TSR ): 1 Kaka, Drogba 2, 3 C. Ronaldo, Pirlo 4, 5 Messi

Remarkable

  • The first three players overall - Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi - were found on 36 of the 96 ballots also in the top three again at 13 of them in that exact order.
  • Six ballots ( from Brazil, France, Lithuania, Paraguay, Portugal and Switzerland ) even contained all five best overall, but none of these jurors brought these players in the right order.
  • The Bosnian jury voted against the mainstream: behind Ibrahimović Inzaghi, Rooney and Ribery set them as single of the overall Top 5 Drogba in fifth; to twelve additional ballots to only two of the five overall best found again.
  • Three of the four non-playing this year in Europe footballers were different than 15 other candidates, each called on at least one ballot: The one point received Ceni from Argentina, El Salvador and Colombia, Mahmoud from Egypt and Azerbaijan and Ochoa from Mexico. Only Beckham was left empty.

The nations

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