Juve dominate Golden Ball list Monday 24 October, 2005
Channel4.com
Juventus are the most represented club in the 50-man shortlist for the 2005 European Footballer of the Year award.
The Italian champions have a total of nine players in the running following their success in Italy over the last year.
Gianluigi Buffon, Mauro Camoranesi, Fabio Cannavaro, Patrick Vieira, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, David Trezeguet, Lilian Thuram, Emerson and 2004 winner Pavel Nedved are all up for the prize.
Milan have five members of their squad in the roster thanks to the performances of Andrea Pirlo, Paolo Maldini, Nelson Dida, Kaka and current Golden Ball holder Andriy Shevchenko.
The Inter pair of Luis Figo and Adriano make up the 16 Italian based players included, the same number as the English Premier League.
However, there are some big names missing from Serie A in the form of Juve captain Alessandro Del Piero and Francesco Totti of Roma.
The winner will be selected via votes from European based journalists by France Football magazine.
The award this year celebrates its 50th birthday.
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Candidates: Adriano (Inter), Michael Ballack (Bayern Munich), David Beckham (Real Madrid), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Mauro Camoranesi (Juventus), Fabio Cannavaro (Juventus), Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Petr Cech (Chelsea), Andriy Shevchenko (Milan), Gregory Coupet (Lyon), Cris (Lyon), Deco (Barcelona), Dida (Milan), Didier Drogba (Chelsea), Emerson (Juventus), Michael Essien (Chelsea), Samuel Eto`o (Barcelona), Luis Figo (Inter), Diego Forlan (Villarreal), Luis Garcia (Liverpool), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Thierry Henry (Arsenal), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Juventus), Juninho (Lyon), Kaka (Milan), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Roy Makaay (Bayern Munich), Claude Makelele (Chelsea), Paolo Maldini (Milan), Pavel Nedved (Juventus), Michael Owen (Newcastle), Park Ji-Sung (Manchester United), Andrea Pirlo (Milan), Raul (Real Madrid), Juan Roman Riquelme (Villarreal), Arjen Robben (Chelsea), Roberto Carlos (Real Madrid), Robinho (Real Madrid), Ronaldinho (Barcelona), Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), John Terry (Chelsea), Lilian Thuram (Juventus), David Trezeguet (Juventus), Marc Van Bommel (Barcelona), Ruud Van Nistelrooy (Manchester United), Patrick Vieira (Juventus), Xavi (Barcelona), Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid).
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This is really great, we have 9 players on this list, wich shows what a great team we have... anyway..
Wich player do u think will win this year...?
my top 5 will be some like
F. Lampard
Ronaldinho
Juninho
P. Vieria
J. Terry