World Champion Birgit Prinz won the FIFA Women's Player of the Year award on Monday for the first time in her career. DFB president Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder awarded her in Basel. Prinz, playing for 1. FFC Frankfurt in the German Women's Bundesliga, earned 264 points from the votes cast by 100 national team
coaches to beat off the challenges of US-American Mia Hamm, last year's winner and Hanna Ljungberg from Sweden.
German Maren Meinert was placed fifth with 69 points followed by team mate Bettina Wiegmann (49). Renate Lingor, ranked eighth, and Silke Rottenberg (10th) also made it into the top ten.
"This is a great honour for me, because there are so many good players. A title like that is always very special. I did not expect to win here," the German commented on her award.
Frenchman Zidane won the men's award
Frenchman Zinedine Zidane of Real Madrid won the World Player of the Year award. He earned 264 points from the votes cast by 142 national teamcoaches to beat off the challenges of French team mate Thierry Henry of Arsenal and his Real Madrid club mate Ronaldo of Brazil, last year's winner.
Zidane was voted in first place by 35 coaches, Henry was voted
first by 21 coaches and collected 186 points while Ronaldo was
voted first by 26 coaches for a total of 176 points.
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[bild1]World Champion Birgit Prinz won the FIFA Women's Player of the Year award on Monday for the first time in her career. DFB president Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder awarded her in Basel. Prinz, playing for 1. FFC Frankfurt in the German Women's Bundesliga, earned 264 points from the votes cast by 100 national team
coaches to beat off the challenges of US-American Mia Hamm, last year's winner and Hanna Ljungberg from Sweden.
German Maren Meinert was placed fifth with 69 points followed by team mate Bettina Wiegmann (49). Renate Lingor, ranked eighth, and Silke Rottenberg (10th) also made it into the top ten.
"This is a great honour for me, because there are so many good players. A title like that is always very special. I did not expect to win here," the German commented on her award.
Frenchman Zidane won the men's award
Frenchman Zinedine Zidane of Real Madrid won the World Player of the Year award. He earned 264 points from the votes cast by 142 national teamcoaches to beat off the challenges of French team mate Thierry Henry of Arsenal and his Real Madrid club mate Ronaldo of Brazil, last year's winner.
Zidane was voted in first place by 35 coaches, Henry was voted
first by 21 coaches and collected 186 points while Ronaldo was
voted first by 26 coaches for a total of 176 points.
