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2002 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France

Field	Value
name	2002 Ballon d'Or
image	Ronaldo 2002 cropped.jpg
caption	2002 Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldo
date	12 December 2002
presenter	France Football
website
award1_type	Won by
award1_winner	BRA Ronaldo (2nd award)
previous	2001
main	Ballon d'Or
next	2003

The 2002 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Ronaldo on 12 December 2002.{{Cite web | access-date = 29 January 2009 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090116140910/http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy02.html| archive-date= 16 January 2009 | url-status= live}} This was Ronaldo's second Ballon d'Or, his first award was in 1997. On 18 November 2002, the shortlist of 50 male players compiled by a group of experts from France Football was announced.

Ronaldo was the first Brazilian national to win the award, when he won his first Ballon in 1997, since then Rivaldo had also won the award in 1999. He was also the fourth Real Madrid player to win the trophy after Alfredo Di Stéfano (1957, 1959), Raymond Kopa (1958), and Luís Figo (2000).{{Cite web | access-date = 29 January 2009 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090116080615/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html| archive-date= 16 January 2009 | url-status= live}}

Rankings

Source:

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Points
1	RonaldoFrance Football reports Ronaldo with 171 points. After reviewing each voter's vote, it seems that the vote from Scotland was counted backwards (1st choice was counted as 5th, 2nd as 4th, and so forth).	Brazil	Internazionale
Real Madrid	169
2	Roberto Carlos	Brazil	Real Madrid	145
3	Oliver KahnFrance Football reports Kahn with 114 points. After reviewing each voter's vote, it seems that the vote from Scotland was counted backwards (1st choice was counted as 5th, 2nd as 4th, and so forth).	Germany	Bayern Munich	110
4	Zinedine Zidane	France	Real Madrid	78
5	Michael BallackFrance Football reports Ballack with 67 points. After reviewing each voter's vote, it seems that the vote from Scotland was counted backwards (1st choice was counted as 5th, 2nd as 4th, and so forth).	Germany	Bayer Leverkusen
Bayern Munich	71
6	Thierry Henry	France	Arsenal	54
7	Raúl	Spain	Real Madrid	38
8	RivaldoFrance Football reports Rivaldo with 29 points. After reviewing each voter's vote, it seems that the vote from Scotland was counted backwards (1st choice was counted as 5th, 2nd as 4th, and so forth).	Brazil	Barcelona
Milan	31
9	Yıldıray Baştürk	Turkey	Bayer Leverkusen	13
10	Alessandro Del Piero	Italy	Juventus	12
11	Hasan Şaş	Turkey	Galatasaray	10
12	Ronaldinho	Brazil	Paris Saint-Germain	8
13	Michael Owen	England	Liverpool	5
Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	Manchester United	5
15	Bernd Schneider	Germany	Bayer Leverkusen	4
Juan Carlos Valerón	Spain	Deportivo La Coruña	4
Cafu	Brazil	Roma	4
Patrick Vieira	France	Arsenal	4
19	Lúcio	Brazil	Bayer Leverkusen	3
Luís Figo	Portugal	Real Madrid	3
21	Papa Bouba Diop	Senegal	Lens	2
El Hadji Diouf	Senegal	Lens
Liverpool	2
Rio Ferdinand	England	Leeds United
Manchester United	2
24	Rubén Baraja	Spain	Valencia	1
Filippo Inzaghi	Italy	Milan	1
Roy Makaay	Netherlands	Deportivo La Coruña	1

Additionally, 24 players were nominated but received no votes: Pablo Aimar (Valencia), Sonny Anderson (Lyon), David Beckham (Manchester United), Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Djibril Cissé (Auxerre), Edmílson (Lyon), Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), Junichi Inamoto (Arsenal, Fulham), Miroslav Klose (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Patrick Kluivert (Barcelona), Luis Enrique (Barcelona), Claude Makélélé (Real Madrid), Paolo Maldini (Milan), Pauleta (Bordeaux), Tomáš Rosický (Borussia Dortmund), Javier Saviola (Barcelona), Seol Ki-hyeon (Anderlecht), Jon Dahl Tomasson (Feyenoord, Milan), Francesco Totti (Roma), David Trezeguet (Juventus), Pierre van Hooijdonk (Feyenoord), Christian Vieri (Internazionale), Marc Wilmots (Bordeaux) and Sylvain Wiltord (Arsenal).

Notes

References

(2002-11-18). "Rosický je v nominaci na Zlatý míč".
UEFA.com. "The official website for European football".
"France Football".

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