Cristiano Ronaldo accepts 2008 World Player of the Year Award

The player with the most votes in the World XI balloting is also named World Player of the Year

Season	Player	Team
2004-2005	Ronaldinho	FC Barcelona
2005-2006	Ronaldinho	FC Barcelona
2006-2007	Kaká	A.C. Milan
2007-2008	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United

List of World XI Player Awards 2004-05 until 2007-08

The World XI are chosen by the FIFPro footballers themselves from a list of candidates for each position. The list is generated by the awards committee itself

Season	Player	Club	Nation
2004-2005	Goalkeeper
	Dida	AC Milan	Brazil
	Defenders
	Paolo Maldini	AC Milan	Italy
	Alessandro Nesta	AC Milan	Italy
	John Terry	Chelsea FC	England
	Cafu	AC Milan	Brazil
	Midfielders
	Claude Makelele	Chelsea FC	France
	Frank Lampard	Chelsea FC	England
	Zinedine Zidane	Real Madrid	France
	Ronaldinho	Barcelona	Brazil
	Forwards
	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	Cameroon
	Andriy Shevchenko	AC Milan	Ukraine
2005-2006	Goalkeeper
	Gianluigi Buffon	Juventus	Italy
	Defenders
	Lilian Thuram	Juventus	France
	John Terry	Chelsea FC	England
	Fabio Cannavaro	Juventus	Italy
	Gianluca Zambrotta	Juventus	Italy
	Midfielders
	Andrea Pirlo	AC Milan	Italy
	Kaká	AC Milan	Brazil
	Zinedine Zidane	Real Madrid	France
	Ronaldinho	Barcelona	Brazil
	Forwards
	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	Cameroon
	Thierry Henry	Arsenal	France
2006-2007	Goalkeeper
	Gianluigi Buffon	Juventus	Italy
	Defenders
	Alessandro Nesta	Juventus	Italy
	John Terry	Chelsea FC	England
	Fabio Cannavaro	Real Madrid	Italy
	Carles Puyol	Barcelona	Spain
	Midfielders
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	Portugal
	Kaká	AC Milan	Brazil
	Steven Gerrard	Liverpool	England
	Ronaldinho	Barcelona	Brazil
	Forwards
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Argentine
	Didier Drogba	Chelsea FC	Cote d'Ivoire
2007-2008	Goalkeeper
	Iker Casillas	Real Madrid	Spain
	Defenders
	Sergio Ramos	Real Madrid	Spain
	John Terry	Chelsea FC	England
	Rio Ferdinand	Manchester United	England
	Carles Puyol	Barcelona	Spain
	Midfielders
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	Portugal
	Kaká	AC Milan	Brazil
	Steven Gerrard	Liverpool	England
	Xavi	Barcelona	Spain
	Forwards
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Argentine
	Fernando Torres	Liverpool	Spain

Top Scorer UEFA Cup 2008-09

Last Updated on October 23, 2008

No	Name	Club	Goals
1	Emiliano Bonazzoli	Sampdoria	4
2	Mladen Petric	Hamburg SV	3
	Milan Baros	Galatasaray	3
	Albert Ze Meyong	Braga	3
	Mario Gomez	VfB Stuttgart	3
	Bafetimbi Gomis	St Etienne	3
	Silva Vagner Love	CSKA Moscow	3
	Luis Bernardo Burgos Aguiar	Braga	3
	Tarik Elyounossi	Heerenveen	3
10	Peter Crouch	Portsmouth	2
	Gerald Sibon	Heerenveen	2
	Harry Kewell	Galatasaray	2
	Frederic Kanouté	Sevilla FC	2
	Gareth Barry	Aston Villa	2
	Wesley Sonck	Club Brugge	2
	Romano Denneboom	Twente Enschede	2
	Antonio Cassano	Sampdoria	2
	Darko Kovacevic	Olympiacos	2
	Tamas Hajnal	Borussia Dortmund	2
	Gurkan Sermeter	Bellinzona	2
	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	Ajax Amsterdam	2
	Franz Schiemer	Austria Vienna	2
	Marek Sapara	Rosenborg	2
	Halil Altintop	Schalke 04	2
	Per Ciljan Skjelbred	Rosenborg	2
	Dimitrie Payet	St Etienne	2
	Libano Batista Edinaldo Grafite	VfL Wolfsburg	2
	Luis Suarez	Ajax Amsterdam	2
	Joao Alves Jo	Man City	2
	Hernan Rengifo	Lech Poznan	2
	Jiri Kladrubsky	Sparta Prague	2
	Jackson Coelho	FC Metalist Kharkiv	2
	Alan Dzagoev	CSKA Moscow	2
	Bruno Fornaroli	Sampdoria	2
	Diego Daniel Colotto	Deportivo La Coruña	2
	Luis Diogo	Olympiacos	2

Top 100 FIFA Rangking update October 2008

Last Updated on October 8th, 2008

Ranking	Team	Pts Oct 08	+/- Ranking Sep 08	+/- Pts Sep 08
1	Spain	1643	0	78
2	Italy	1365	0	26
3	Germany	1336	0	7
4	Brazil	1280	2	28
5	Netherlands	1258	-1	-37
6	Croatia	1223	-1	-43
7	Argentina	1200	0	-30
8	Czech Republic	1111	0	-23
9	Russia	1076	3	63
10	Portugal	1075	-1	-45
11	France	1035	0	16
12	Cameroon	1027	2	28
13	Turkey	1021	-3	-12
14	England	982	1	-9
15	Bulgaria	969	1	-7
16	Israel	961	3	87
17	Greece	945	1	24
18	Romania	927	-5	-80
19	Ukraine	893	7	94
20	Uruguay	887	2	70
21	USA	861	7	73
22	Egypt	860	-1	19
22	Paraguay	860	3	59
24	Mexico	841	0	34
25	Ghana	839	-5	-25
26	Scotland	820	-10	-156
27	Nigeria	818	0	27
28	Sweden	794	3	21
29	Côte d'Ivoire	779	-6	-35
30	Poland	763	0	-16
31	Denmark	760	5	64
32	Japan	747	3	40
33	Colombia	739	-4	-46
34	Australia	737	5	82
35	Northern Ireland	721	-3	-40
36	Chile	714	4	60
37	Lithuania	706	17	161
38	Republic of Ireland	701	0	39
39	Norway	680	-5	-53
40	Serbia	673	-7	-73
41	Guinea	670	0	20
42	Ecuador	661	10	105
43	Morocco	642	-6	-29
43	Finland	642	-1	-7
45	Switzerland	641	-2	-3
46	FYR Macedonia	637	10	118
47	Tunisia	624	-3	-19
48	Iran	619	-2	5
49	Senegal	615	-4	-8
50	Honduras	601	10	99
51	Saudi Arabia	589	-3	16
51	Belgium	589	4	59
53	Mali	587	-6	-17
54	New Zealand	584	57	268
55	Korea Republic	552	-4	-6
56	Algeria	542	20	119
57	Congo	536	43	181
58	Peru	533	15	95
59	Belarus	522	-2	4
60	Slovakia	521	7	47
61	Wales	518	-8	-31
62	Hungary	507	-12	-54
63	Burkina Faso	502	1	24
64	Latvia	501	-1	22
65	Moldova	500	-17	-73
66	Venezuela	484	-5	-12
67	Gabon	481	-5	-4
68	Angola	479	-10	-34
69	Costa Rica	476	4	38
70	Uzbekistan	468	-11	-37
70	Zambia	468	-1	12
72	Bahrain	465	-6	-10
73	Slovenia	457	6	42
74	Bolivia	456	-3	13
75	Bosnia-Herzegovina	446	0	11
76	Libya	444	14	58
77	Iraq	443	-5	4
78	Qatar	436	3	24
79	Kenya	433	7	38
80	Cyprus	430	-15	-46
81	Benin	429	23	80
82	Austria	422	19	68
83	Albania	416	19	64
84	Canada	415	-3	3
85	South Africa	411	-15	-36
85	Congo DR	411	-17	-50
87	Rwanda	410	-2	10
88	Trinidad and Tobago	404	-8	-10
89	Guatemala	394	10	38
90	Gambia	389	0	3
91	Zimbabwe	385	-8	-21
91	Panama	385	5	20
91	Togo	385	-13	-35
94	Oman	380	-2	-3
95	Uganda	376	-8	-16
96	China PR	374	-2	-1
97	Georgia	368	-20	-53
98	Cuba	366	-6	-17
99	Syria	361	-2	-3
100	Mozambique	355	3	4