Btw, this is what Juventus.com had to say about it. Whatever the hell it means
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Six for the Football of Gold
10 11 2003
(La Presse)
Along sprint that it will carry to the allocation of the Football of Gold 2003 finally it has left. The French salary "France Football", than every year assigns the prize to the better militant soccer player in Europe, in fact has circulated the directory of the 50 players candidates to the prestigious acknowledgment.
And the splendid vintage year lived from the players of the Juventus - vincitori of a badge and Italian Supercoppa, finalists in Champions League, without to forget the contribution to the national ones engaged in the qualifications to Euro 2004? it is not last unnoticed.
They are very the 6 boys of Marcello Lippi in lists. Draft of Alexander Of the Piero, Pavel Nedved, Gianluigi Buffon, David Trezeguet, Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta.
Six on 50, one medium shocking that only the Real Madrid, eliminated just from the bianconeri in the semiend of Champions League, has known to make introducing 8 candidates better (between which the former Zidane that just with the Juventus has obtained the prize in 1998). The mainly representative nations are Italy and France with 9. Beyond to Of the Piero, Buffon and Zambrotta, the blueta in race are Totti, Vieri, Maldini, Toldo, Inzaghi and Nesta.