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FIFA World Player of the Year 2001
Luis Figo crowned for the first time
Mia Hamm is FIFA Women’s Player of the Year
And the winner is ... Luis Figo. Photo Kurt Schorrer, FIFA
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Luis Figo is the 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year. The talented Portuguese playmaker heads the list for the first time ever, having finished second in last year’s vote. England captain David Beckham came second in the voting, with Figo’s Real Madrid team-mate, Raúl of Spain, finishing third. In the women’s category, USA star Mia Hamm topped the list ahead of China’s Sun Wen and her fellow American Tiffeny Milbrett.
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Compared with the 2000 poll, this year’s result was much closer. Figo finished with 250 points, ahead of Beckham (238), who again has to settle for second place, having also come close in 1999. Positions three to five were even more keenly contested.
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FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking
France, Costa Rica and Honduras take awards
France, Costa Rica and Honduras received special prizes at today’s FIFA World Player Gala in Zurich for their exploits this year in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking.
This one was a real turn up for the books... Australia's World Cup-ending defeat by Uruguay in their final game undoubtedly played a significant role in the Team of the Year award going to Honduras, who incidentally also had to shunt their World Cup aspirations onto the buffers when they were beaten in their last game in Mexico City. No other team could amass so many points (and distinguish themselves as giant-killers) as the Hondurans did in their best matches.
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The programme for the gala is as follows:
13.30 - 14.45 (ca.): Media conference at the Zurich World Trade Center, Leutschenbachstrasse, opposite Television Production Centre.
15.00: Invited guests to arrive at Television Production Centre
15.45: Attendees to take their seats in "Studio 1" at the Television Production Centre
16.00 - 17.15: 2001 FIFA World Player Gala
The media working area will be located at the Zurich World Trade Center.
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FIFA Fair Play Award to Paolo di Canio
The FIFA Committee for Security Matters and Fair Play agreed to award Paolo di Canio for a special act of good sportsmanship in an English Premiership match last season. Faced with the possibility of scoring an easy goal, di Canio chose instead to catch the ball with his hands and thus stop the play in order to allow the injured opposing goalkeeper to be treated.
A teenage Ghanaian player, Sumaila Abdallah, will receive a FIFA Fair Play diploma for having saved the life of an opponent with the kiss of life when the latter was knocked unconscious in a local match in Ghana. Both awards will be presented on the occasion of the FIFA World Player gala in Zurich on 17 December.
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2001
1. Luis Figo
2. David Beckham
3. Raúl
Coaches voting: 130
2000
1. Zinedine Zidane
2. Luis Figo
3. Rivaldo
Coaches voting: 150
1999
1. Rivaldo
2. David Beckham
3. Gabriel Batistuta
Coaches voting: 140
1998
1. Zinedine Zidane
2. Ronaldo
3. Davor Suker
Coaches voting: 132
1997
1. Ronaldo
2. Roberto Carlos
3. Dennis Bergkamp
Zinedine Zidane
Coaches voting: 121
1996
1. Ronaldo
2. George Weah
3. Alan Shearer
Coaches voting: 120
1995
1. George Weah
2. Paolo Maldini
3. Jürgen Klinsmann
Coaches voting: 95
1994
1. Romario
2. Hristo Stoitchkov
3. Roberto Baggio
Coaches voting: 83
1993
1. Roberto Baggio
2. Romario
3. Dennis Bergkamp
Coaches voting: 71
1992
1. Marco Van Basten
2. Hristo Stoitchkov
3. Thomas Hässler
Coaches voting: 71
1991
1. Lothar Matthäus
2. Jean-Pierre Papin
3. Gary Lineker
Coaches voting: 66
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2001
1. Mia Hamm
2. Sun Wen
3. Tiffeny Milbrett
Coaches voting: 72
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