Lampard on FIFA World Player shortlist

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4486166.stm

Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has been shortlisted for Fifa's World Player of the Year award.
Barcelona duo Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o are the other two players on Fifa's three-man shortlist.

Barcelona and Brazil playmaker Ronaldinho was the 2004 winner of the Fifa World Player of the Year award.

On Monday the 25-year-old Brazilian, who this year also won the inaugural FIFpro award, was named the 2005 European Footballer of the Year.

Lampard, the footballer of the year in England last season, came second to Ronaldinho for the European award.

It is the first time the Chelsea midfielder has been shortlisted for the Fifa award, which will be announced on 19 December

Previous Fifa World Player of the Year winners
2004 - Ronaldinho
2003 - Zinedine Zidane
2002 - Ronaldo
2001 - Luis Figo
2000 - Zinedine Zidane
1999 - Rivaldo
1998 - Zinedine Zidane
1997 - Ronaldo
1996 - Ronaldo
1995 - George Weah
1994 - Romario
1993 - Roberto Baggio
1992 - Marco van Basten
1991 - Lothar Matthaus

[Darvish11]

I wonder who will win???? Im gonna take a WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD guess and say............. maybe............................ronaldinho??

[faraz]

Dinho...for sure...if he doesn't get it, it'll be an outrage

[Sattar-khan]

I say Nosrati

[soniq]

Lampard This Year

[Darvish11]

Lampard This Year

[Darvish11]

I say Nosrati

He is certainly better than lampard, but its a toss up between him and ronaldinho. Unfortunatly, the voters tend to be biased towards s.american and european players, so i don't think this is a the year for nosrati. His year will come soon, though.

[Sattar-khan]

He is certainly better than lampard, but its a toss up between him and ronaldinho. Unfortunatly, the voters tend to be biased towards s.american and european players, so i don't think this is a the year for nosrati. His year will come soon, though.

I see your point!!

[soniq]

L+a+m+p+a+r+D

[Poeja_punani]

Man i starting to hate FIFA more and more...!
WTF does Lampard and Eto'o do in the shortlist of FIFA world player of the year 2005:bs: ??? Man Lampard even cannot keep up Cesc Fabregas !!! There are atleast 2 strikers and atleast 20 midfielders who deserve it more then Eto'o and Lampard! Henry en Shevchenko are far more better then Eto'o.
And for Lampard... I'm sorry but he is not very special. Nedved, Vieira, Gerard, Karimi(he has the potential), Makalele, Demichelis, Seedorf, Kaka, Emerson, Essien, Zidane, Juninho, Ballack, Xabi Alonso and a lot of others are better players then him(and im only talking about midfielders right now).
And Henry deserved this award previous year and also two years ago(when Zidane became world footballer instead of Henry:bs: :bs: :bs: )
And for Eto'o.... Even I could score more then 20 goals with PLayers like Ronaldinho and Deco behind me