The Golden Foot Award

[chameleon65]

Official: Shevchenko Wins 2004 Ballon D'Or

Andriy Shevchenko is officially the 2004 winner of the prestigious Ballon D’Or award. The AC Milan striker preceded Barcelona stars Deco and Ronaldinho, who came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

“It’s a very special day for me. I think I deserved this important award and I want to dedicate it to my people in the Ukraine who are going through a particular moment,” said the 28 year old phenomenon.

Arsenal’s Thierry Henry came in fourth, Greece captain Zagorakis fifth, and Inter’s Adriano sixth.

Here are the full standings together with the number of votes each player picked up:

1) Shevchenko 175 votes;

2) Deco 139;

3) Ronaldinho 133;

4) Thierry Henry 80;

5) Zagorakis 44;

6) Adriano 27;

7) Nedved 23;

8) Rooney 22;

9) Ricardo Carvalho, Van Nistelrooy 18;

11) Charisteas 15;

12) Milan Baros, Cristiano Ronaldo 11;

14) Ibrahimovic 8;

15) Eto’o, Kakà 7;

17) Buffon, Dellas, Drogba, Lampard, Morientes 5;

22) Figo 4;

23) Zidane 3;

24) Baraja, Giuly, Maniche, Nikopolidis 2;

28) Maldini, Vicente 1.

Nothing to take away from this guy but I expected Ronaldinho. I guess Shev will smell more $$$.

At least we got a few of our NT boys on the list..Very Cool !! :gr: :tup:

[NYC_Olympiakos]

i am a bit suprised

thiery henry seemed to be the front runner for the award

deco got alot of points and finished second

i thought henry would have gotten the award b/c he is this years golden boot winner if i am right and lead his team to an undeafted season

but henry is also a class choker

did anybody see highlights of the arsenal v chelsea game

henry scored two goals and he had a shot for a hat trick and a winner but missed an easy goal

if he had scored it would have been the easiest of 3 goals

i wonder if that played a role lol