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Monday, October 26, 2009

All-Star Team

The All-Star Team, currently named after its current sponsor MasterCard All-Star Team, is a team of the best 23 players, chosen by FIFA's technical study group, from the World Cup Finals. The number of players was expanded from 11 to 16 at the 1998 finals, and then to the current 23. Before 1998, journalists and experts chose a "Dream Team" with outstanding players from each playing position. The teams were chosen mostly by European and South American journalists.
Only two players have been named in three separate All-Star teams: Franz Beckenbauer of West Germany, who was included in the 1966, 1970, and 1974 editions of the All-Star Team, and Djalma Santos in 1954, 1958 and 1962. 18 others have been named to two separate All-Star teams: Luis Monti (1930 and 1934; however, in 1930, he was representing Argentina while in 1934 he represented Italy); Garrincha (1958 and 1962); Pele (1958 and 1970); Bobby Charlton (1966 and 1970); Teofilo Cubillas (1970 and 1978); Rob Rensenbrink (1974 and 1978); Berti Vogts (1974 and 1978); Paolo Rossi (1978 and 1982); Michel Platini (1982 and 1986); Diego Maradona (1986 and 1990); Paolo Maldini (1990 and 1994); Dunga(1994 and 1998); Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, and Ronaldo (1998 and 2002); Lilian Thuram and Zinedine Zidane (1998 and 2006); Michael Ballack and Miroslav Klose (2002 and 2006).
Pele is the only player to be named in All-Star teams 12 years apart (1958 and 1970).
Italy in 2006 and Uruguay in 1930 and 1950 and Germany in 2006 are the only teams to have had a player in every position on the All-Star Team.
With 7 players in 1930, Uruguay is the nation with most players on the same All-Star Team.
34 different Brazilian players were named in All-Star teams, Brazil is also the nation with most nominations with 42 nominees.
All-Star Team
World Cup
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
1934 
Italy
 Ricardo Zamora
 Jacinto Quincoces
 Eraldo Monzeglio
 Luis Monti
 Attilio Ferraris
 Leonardo Cilaurren
 Giuseppe Meazza
 Raimundo Orsi
 Enrique Guaita
 Matthias Sindelar
 Oldřich Nejedly
1938  
France
 Frantisek Planicka
 Pietro Rava
 Alfredo Foni
 Domingos da Guia
 Michele Andreolo
 Ugo Locatelli
 Silvio Piola
 Gino Colaussi
 György Sárosi
 Gyula Zsengeller
 Leônidas
1950 
Brazil
 Roque Máspoli
 Erik Nilsson
 José Parra
 Víctor Rodríguez Andrade
 Obdulio Varela
 Bauer
 Alcides Ghiggia
 Zizinho
 Ademir
 Jair
 Juan Alberto Schiaffino
1954 Switzerland
 Gyula Grosics
 Ernst Ocwirk
 Djalma Santos
 José Santamaría
 Fritz Walter
 József Bozsik
 Helmut Rahn
 Nándor Hidegkuti
 Ferenc Puskás
 Sándor Kocsis
 Zoltan Czibor
1958  
Sweden
 Lev Yashin
Djalma Santos
Bellini
Nílton Santos
Danny Blanchflower
Didi
Pele
Garrincha
Just Fontaine
Raymond Kopa
Gunnar Gren
1962 
Chile
Viliam Schrojf
Djalma Santos
Cesare Maldini
Valeriy Voronin
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
Zagallo
Zitor
Josef Masopust
Vava
Garrincha
Leonel Sanchez
1966  
England
Gordon Banks
George Cohen
Bobby Moore
Vicente
Silvio Marzolini
Franz Beckenbauer
Mário Coluna
Bobby Charlton
Florian Albert
Uwe Seeler
Eusébio
1970 
Mexico
Ladislao Mazurkiewicz
Carlos Alberto
Atilio Ancheta
Franz Beckenbauer
Giacinto Facchetti
Gerson
Roberto Rivellino
Bobby Charlton
Pele
Gerd Müller
Jairzinho
1974 West Germany
Sepp Maier
Berti Vogts
Ruud Krol
Franz Beckenbauer
Paul Breitner
Wolfgang Overath
Kazimierz Deyna
Johan Neeskens
Rob Rensenbrink
Johan Cruyff
Grzegorz Lato
1978 
Argentina
Ubaldo Fillol
Berti Vogts
Ruud Krol
Daniel Passarella
Alberto Tarantini
Dirceu
Teofilo Cubillas
Rob Rensenbrink
Roberto Bettega
Paolo Rossi
Mario Kempes
1982  
Spain
Dino Zoff
Luizinho
Junior
Claudio Gentile
Fulvio Collovati
Zbigniew Boniek
Falcao
Michel Platini
Zico
Paolo Rossi
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1986 
Mexico
Harald Schumacher
Josimar
Manuel Amoros
Júlio César
Jan Ceulemans
Jean Tigana
Michel Platini
Diego Maradona
Preben Elkjær Larsen
Emilio Butragueño
Gary Lineker
1990 
Italy
 Sergio Goycoechea
Luis Gabelo Conejo
Andreas Brehme
Paolo Maldini
Franco Baresi
Diego Maradona
Lothar Matthäus
Dragan Stojkovic
Paul Gascoigne
Salvatore Schillaci
Roger Milla
Jürgen Klinsmann
1994
USA
Michel Preud'homme
Jorginho
Márcio Santos
Paolo Maldini
Dunga
Krasimir Balakov
Gheorghe Hagi
Tomas Brolin
Romário
Hristo Stoichkov
Roberto Baggio
1998 
France
Fabien Barthez
Jose Luis Chilavert
Roberto Carlos
Marcel Desailly
Lilian Thuram
Frank de Boer
Carlos Gamarra
Dunga
Rivaldo
Michael Laudrup
Zinedine Zidane
Edgar Davids
Ronaldo
Davor Šuker
Brian Laudrup
Dennis Bergkamp
2002 Korea/Japan
Oliver Kahn
Rüştü Reçber
Roberto Carlos
Sol Campbell
Fernando Hierro
Hong Myung-Bo
Alpay Özalan
Rivaldo
Ronaldinho
Michael Ballack
Claudio Reyna
Yoo Sang-Chul
Ronaldo
Miroslav Klose
El Hadji Diouf
Hasan Sas
2006  
Germany
Gianluigi Buffon
Jens Lehmann
Ricardo
Roberto Ayala
John Terry
Lilian Thuram
Philipp Lahm
Fabio Cannavaro
Gianluca Zambrotta
Ricardo Carvalho
Ze Roberto
Patrick Vieira
Zinedine Zidane
Michael Ballack
Andrea Pirlo
Gennaro Gattuso
Luís Figo
Maniche
Hernan Crespo
Thierry Henry
Miroslav Klose
Luca Toni

Most Entertaining Team

The FIFA Award for the Most Entertaining Team is a fairly new accolade for the FIFA World Cup. It is a subjectively awarded prize for the team which has done the most to entertain the public with a positive approach to the game. The award is always organized through public participation in a poll. Recent awards have been determined by an Internet vote which may not fairly and accurately represent fan demographics.
 
 Most Entertaining Team
World Cup
Most Entertaining Team Award
1994 USA
 Brazil
1998 France
 France
2002 Korea/Japan
 Korea Republic
2006 Germany
 Portugal

FIFA Fair Play Trophy

The FIFA Fair Play Trophy is given to the team with the best record of fair play during the World Cup final tournament. Only teams that qualified for the second round are considered. The winners of this award earn the FIFA Fair Play Trophy, a diploma, a fair play medal for each player and official, and $50,000 worth of football equipment to be used for youth development.
The Appearance of the award was originally a certificate but from 1982-1994 it had been a golden trophy based on Sport Billy, a well known football-playing cartoon character from 1982 who became an icon for FIFA Fair play. More recently it is simply a trophy with an elegant footballer figure.
 
FIFA Fair Play Trophy
World Cup
FIFA Fair Play Trophy Winners
1970 Mexico
 Peru
1978 Argentina
 Argentina
1982 Spain
 Brazil
1986 Mexico
 Brazil
1990 Italy
 England
1994 USA
 Brazil
1998 France
 England
 France
2002 Korea/Japan
 Belgium
2006 Germany
 Brazil
 Spain