WORLDFOOTBALLAWARDS2008

This year sees theexpansion of the World Football Awards Nomination and voting was organised throughthe Football Commission of AIPS in thecategories of Legend, Top Current Player andTop Young Player. Initially the project took inthe leading 75 nations in the Coca-Cola FIFARankings at the start of this year.

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AFRICA

ANGOLALegend: Fabrice MairecoAkwa

Player: ManuchoYoung Player: Mateus Galiano daCosta

CAMEROONLegend: Roger MillaPlayer: Geremi Njitap

Young Player: Alexandre Song

EGYPTLegend: Mahmoud ElKhatib

Player: Essam El HadaryYoung Player: Ahmed El Mohamadi

GHANALegend: Abedi Ayew "Pele"

Player: Michael EssienYoung Player: Ransford Osei

GUINEALegend: Ali Ibrahim"Petit Sory" Keita

Player: Pascal FeindounoYoung Player: Karamoko Cisse

IVORY COASTLegend: Laurent PokouPlayer: Didier Drogba

Young Player: Emerse Fae

MALILegend: Salif KeitaPlayer: Frederic Kanoute

Young Player: Mahamane Traore

MOROCCOLegend: Ahmad FarasPlayer: Talal El Karkouri

Young Player: Adil Hermach

NIGERIALegend: Finidi GeorgePlayer: Nwankwo Kanu

Young Player: Ezekiel Bala

SENEGALLegend: Patrick VieiraPlayer: El Hadji Diouf

Young Player: Babacar Gueye

SOUTH AFRICALegend: AceNtsoelengoe

Player: Teko ModiseYoung Player: Excellent Walaza

TOGOLegend: Bachirou SalouPlayer: Emmanuel

AdebayorYoung Player: Lalawele Atakora

TUNISIALegend: Tarek DhiabPlayer: Armine Chermiti

Young Player: Nour Hadhria

ZAMBIALegend: Kalusha BwalyaPlayer: Chris Katongo

Young Player: Clifford Mulenga

ASIA

AUSTRALIALegend: Frank FarinaPlayer: Tim Cahill

Young Player: Mark Milligan

CHINALegend: Zhi Yi FanPlayer: Li Tie

Young Player: Hao Junmin

IRANLegend: Ali DaeiPlayer: Mehdi

MahdavikiaYoung Player: Hossein Kaabi

IRAQLegend: Amonael BabaPlayer: Younis Mahmood

Young Player: Bashar saeed

JAPANLegend: KunishigeKamamoto/

Hidetoshi Nakata (pictured above)Player: Shunsuke NakamuraYoung Player: Michihiro Yasuda

KOREA REPUBLICLegend: Bum Kun ChaPlayer: Park Ji-Sung

Young Player: Shin Young-Rok

SAUDI ARABIALegend: Abdullah MajidPlayer: Mohammed Al

DaeyeaYoung Player: Waleed Ali

UZBEKISTANLegend: MaksimShatskikh

Player: Maksim ShatskikhYoung Player: Vitaliy Denisov

CENTRAL/NORTH AMERICA

CANADALegend: Bruce WilsonPlayer: Paul Stalteri

Young Player: Andre Hainault

COSTA RICALegend: Paulo WanchopePlayer: Walter Centeno

Young Player: Pablo Herrera

HONDURASLegend: GilbertoYearwood

Player: Wilson PalaciosYoung Player: Johnny Leveron

MEXICOLegend: Hugo SanchezPlayer: Nery Castillo

Young Player: Giovani dos Santos

PANAMALegend: July Cesar DelyValdez

Player: Jaime PenedoYoung Player: Nelson Barahona

UNITED STATESLegend: Tab RamosPlayer: Landon Donovan

Young Player: Jozy Altidore

SOUTH AMERICA

ARGENTINALegend: Diego MaradonaPlayer: Juan Roman

RiquelmeYoung Player: Sergio Aguero

BRAZILLegend: PelePlayer: Kaka

Young Player: Alexandre Pato

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CHILELegend: Leonel SanchezPlayer: Jorge Vargas

Young Player: Mauricio Isla

COLOMBIALegend: CarlosValderrama

Player: Ivan CordonaYoung Player: Christian Nazarith

ECUADORLegend: Alberto SpencerPlayer: Antonio Valencia

Young Player: Felipe Caicedo

PARAGUAYLegend: Arsenio EricoPlayer: Salvador Cabanas

Young Player: Jose Montiel

PERULegend: Teofilo CubillasPlayer: Jefferson Farfan

Young Player: Carlos Bazalar

URUGUAYLegend: Juan AlbertoSchiaffino

Player: Diego LuganoYoung Player: Edison Cavani

VENEZUELALegend: GabrielUrdaneta

Player: Jose Manuel ReyYoung Player: Irwin Anton

EUROPE

ALBANIALegend: Foto StrakoshaPlayer: Igli Tare

Young Player: Jahmir Hyka

BELARUSLegend: Alexander HlebPlayer: Alexander Hleb

Young Player: Anton Putilo

BELGIUMLegend: Paul Van HimstPlayer: Timmy Simons

Young Player: Anthony Vanden Borre

BOSNIALegend: Elvir BolicPlayer: Zvezdan

MisimovicYoung Player: Boris Pandza

BULGARIALegend: Hristo StoichkovPlayer: Dimitar Berbatov

Young Player: Valeri Bojinov

CROATIALegend: Zvonimir BobanPlayer: Eduardo

Young Player: Vedran Corluka

CYPRUSLegend: Sotiris KaiafasPlayer: Nikos Nicolaou

Young Player: Elias Vattis

CZECH REPUBLICLegend: Josef MasopustPlayer: Petr Cech

Young Player: Martin Fenin

DENMARKLegend: Michael LaudrupPlayer: Daniel Agger

Young Player: Nicklas Bendtner

ENGLANDLegend: Bobby CharltonPlayer: Steven Gerrard

Young Player: Theo Walcott

FINLANDLegend: Jari LitmanenPlayer: Juusi Jaaskelainen

Young Player: Roman Eremenko

FRANCELegend: Michel PlatiniPlayer: Franck Ribery

Young Player: Damien Le Tallec

GERMANYLegend: FranzBeckenbauer

Player: Mario GomezYoung Player: Toni Kroos

GREECELegend: TheodorosZagorakis

Player: Nikolaos LiberopoulosYoung Player: Grigoris Makos

HOLLANDLegend: Johan CruyffPlayer: Klaas-Jan

HuntelaarYoung Player: Royston Drenthe

HUNGARYLegend: Ferenc PuskasPlayer: Zoltan Gera

Young Player: Balasz Dzsudzsak

ISRAELLegend: Avi CohenPlayer: Michael Zandberg

Young Player: Ben Sahar

ITALYLegend: Dino ZoffPlayer: Marco Borriello

Young Player: Sebastian Giovinco

LATVIALegend: Vitalis AstafyevsPlayer: Aleksandrs Kolinko

Young Player: Jevgenijs Kosmacovs

LITHUANIALegend: EdgarasJankauskas

Player: Andrius VelickaYoung Player: Kristaps Blanks

MACEDONIA FYRLegend: Artim SakiriPlayer: Goran Pandev

Young Player: Ivan Trickovski

MOLDOVALegend: SergheiCovalciuc

Player: Alexandru EpureanuYoung Player: Andrei Cojocari

NORTHERN IRELANDLegend: George BestPlayer: David Healy

Young Player: Jonny Evans

NORWAYLegend: ThorbjornSvensson

Player: Morten Gamst PedersenYoung Player: Per Ciljan Skjelbred

POLANDLegend: Grzegorz LatoPlayer: Ebi Smolarek

Young Player: Dawid Janczyk

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PORTUGALLegend: Eusebio da SilvaFerreira

Player: Cristiano RonaldoYoung Player: Miguel Veloso

REPUBLIC OF IRELANDLegend: Liam BradyPlayer: Brian Shelley

Young Player: Mark Quigley

ROMANIALegend: Gheorghe HagiPlayer: Bogdan Lobont

Young Player: Stefan Radu

RUSSIALegend: Lev YashinPlayer: Andrei Arshavin

Young Player: Igor Akinfeyev

SCOTLANDLegend: Denis LawPlayer: Alan Hutton

Young Player: Steven Naismith

SERBIA (formerlyYugoslavia)Legend: Dragan Dzajic

Player: Nemanja VidicYoung Player: Zdravko Kuzmanovic

SLOVAKIALegend: Szilard NemethPlayer: Tomas Oravec

Young Player: Marek Hamsik

SPAINLegend: Alfredo Di Stefano

Player: Iker CasillasYoung Player: Bojan Krkic

SWEDENLegend: Gunnar NordahlPlayer: Zlatan

IbrahimovicYoung Player: Marcus Berg

SWITZERLANDLegend: StephaneChapuisat

Player: Alexander FreiYoung Player: Eren Derdiyok

TURKEYLegend: Hakan SukurPlayer: Volkan Demirel

Young Player: Serdar Kurtulus

UKRAINELegend: Victor KolotovPlayer: Oleksandr

ShovkovskyyYoung Player: Oleksdandr Gladkiy

WALESLegend: John CharlesPlayer: Ryan Giggs

Young Player: Gareth Bale

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