What are the criterials that qualifies a player as the world best player or continental?
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Every fan of football around the world, utters you name. And you posses the talent to lead your team to victory, and get a standing ovation from the whole crowd. (for example, Zidane, Roanldinho, Henry, Ronaldo, Pele, Shevchenko, etc.)
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The FIFA World Player of the Year is a football award given annually to the male and female player who are thought to be the best in the world, based on votes by coaches and captains of international teams. In a voting system based on a type of a Borda count, each coach gets three votes, worth five points, three points and one point, and the winners are ordered based on total number of points. The award started in 1991 for men and 2001 for women.Following criticism from some sections of the media over questionable nominations in previous years, in 2004 FIFA drew up a shortlist of 35 men and 21 women from which national team managers and, for the first time, team captains and representatives from FIFPro (the worldwide representative organization for professional players) could vote [1].\n\nAnother criticism brought up against the men's nominations is that no player in activity outside of Europe has ever been nominated for the award. Although players from several nationalities, of three continents, have been nominated and won the award, they were all playing for European clubs at the time of their nomination or victory. It has been suggested that players active even in the more prestigious Leagues in Latin America (such as the Argentine, the Brazilian or the Mexican Leagues), are generally overlooked for the award. Others have noted that because of the money involved almost all of the world's best players play in European leagues by the time they mature as players.\n\nLa Liga players have won the men's award 5 years running
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1.Kasey Keller (Borussia)\n2.Claudio Reyna (Manchester City)\n3.Brian McBride (Everton)\n4.DaMarcus Beasley (PSV Eindhoven)\nThese are the players that play on powerhouse teams in real leagues... not the MLS.
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Rank players 1 through 16. Make sure all first-round matches have the ranks equal to 17 (i.e., 1 vs. 16, 2 vs. 15, etc., etc.)\n\nQuarterfinals -- 1/16 vs. 8/9, 5/12 vs. 4/13, 3/14 vs. 6/11, 7/10 vs. 2/15\n\nSemifinals -- winner of No. 1 seed bracket vs. winner of No. 4 seed bracket, winner of No. 2 seed bracket vs. winner of No. 3 seed bracket\n\nFinals -- Semifinal winners
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There is no set way that teams choose their team members, but it is done by the coach of the national team. The answer is it is "random" in that there is no formula, the coach chooses the best 25 players to assist his team.
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A player is eligible to play for a country if:\n"a) the player was born on the territory of the relevant Association;\nb) his biological mother or biological father was born on the territory of the relevant Association;\nc) his grandmother or grandfather was born on the territory of the relevant Association;\nd) he has lived continuously for at least two years on the territory of the relevant Association."\n\nSo yes, you could play for Croatia, under part b).
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The qualification procedures for each continental association differs, in Europe they use an initial round-robin league format, where the winners qualify automatically, and the runners up get drawn in a two-leg home and away play-off, in South America the ten teams just play one league, with the top teams qualifying... in other areas they have a seeding system whereby the smaller teams play off against each other and the larger nations come in for the later stages...
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The world ranking is also known as the ATP entry ranking.  Current world #1 is Roger Federer.  He will be the #1 seed in any tournament he enters.  The players "seed" refers to the highest ranked player entered into that tournament.  For example, James Blake is the #14 ranked player in the world, but if he enters a tournament where the top 13 players in the world are not entered then James Blake would be the #1 seed for that tournament.  Then say Carlos Moya the #30 ranked player in the world is the next highest ranked player in the tournament so he would recieve the #2 seed for that tournament and so on.  This would continue until all the seeded positions have been filled.  Then the remaining players are distributed randomly throughout the draw.
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Well let's see, they have: \n1. Ronaldo: the best player in the world 2 years ago and the best striker in the previous world cup. \n2. Ronaldinho: the best player in the world for 2005 and the leader of the strongest team in the world Barcelona. \n3. Kaka: One of the best, if not the best, player in A.C.Milan. \n4. Robinho and Pabtist: Have been playing greatly with Real Madrid.\n5. Cicinho: new guy but in Real Madrid, he actually proved himself as the best player in his position. Salgado had no chance cometing with him. \n6. Roberto Carlos: Great history with lots of chamionships with Real and Brazil. \n7. Emerson: the best pivot in my opinion. Plays for Juventus and that's enough! \n\nSo, you answer the question are they the best? \nI do think they are...
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I totally agree that Federer's the best player, but one can't ignore the performance of other players. So, I'll give you what I think are best qualities in players-\n\nRoger Federer- Overall\nAndy Roddick-Serves\nLlewton Hewitt-Comebacks\nAndre Aggassi-Extremely hard to beat\nJuan Carlos Ferrero-Style of play\nDavid Nalbandian-Never-Say-Die spirit\nCarlos Moya-Strength
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Ronaldihino from Brazil....best player...belongs to best team for ever ....thumps up!!!
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All of the people who answered before me are wrong in some respect...either not providing a complete answer or just being wrong.\nAccording to the FIFA World Cup Regulations manual, Article 31 states that:\n"The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as\nfollows:\na) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;\nb) goal difference in all group matches;\nc) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches.\nIf two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria,their rankings will be determined as follows:\nd) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between\nthe teams concerned;\ne) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the\nteams concerned;\nf) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the\nteams concerned;\ng) drawing of lots by the Organising Committee for the FIFA World\nCup™."\nIf needbe check my source for confirmation, see page 40 - 41.
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The Top Goalscorer in the world gets a golden boot award. FIFA takes all the top goalscorers in the various leagues and then multiplies the number of goals scored by a coefficient depending on the average difficulty of the league as a whole. Thus, if a player scores 30 goals in the English Premier League, and another player scores 30 goals in the Scottish League, the first player will have a higher ranking.
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The best football player in the world is ME :D\nNR.2 in the list is Ronaldinho\nNR.3 is Andryev Shevcenko
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Qualifying takes over a year and clubs would not want to release players for internatinal games if they had to a international competition more often. Don't forget you have the european championships every 4 years, and the african nations cup and copa america also!
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THE BEST OF THE BESTEST IS\nPELE\n\n\nBEST Players:\nAndriy Shevchenko "#7 Ukraine"\nZinedine Zidane "#10 France"\nSaeed Owairan "#10 Saudi Arabia"\nRafael Márquez "#4 Mexico"\nDiego Armando Maradona "#10 Argentina\nRonaldo "#9 Brazil"\nRivaldo "#10 Brazil"\nPele "O Rei" "#10 Brazil"\nEusebio "The Black Panther" "#10 Portugal" \nBastian Schweinsteiger "#7 Germany"\nDavid Beckham "#7 England"\n\nNew players 2Cheer:\nAndres Guardado "#19 Mexico"\nMabrouk Zaid "#1 Saudi Arabia\nSota Hirayama "#5 Japan"\nAndrey Rusol "#8 Ukraine\n\nBEST GOALCH "GoalKeeper":\nOleksander Shovkovsky "#1 UKRAINE"\nOliver Kahn "#1 Germany"\nOswaldo Sanchez "#12 Mexico"\nFabien Barthez "#16 France"\nLee Woon-jae "#1 South Korea"
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Qualification goes like this:\n\nThe world is divided into regions:\nAsia\nEurope\nAfrica\nConcacaf (North America, Central Am. and Caribian)\nSouth America\nOceania \n\nThen Fifa divides up the 32 possible spots to the regions based on the strenghtn of the region, number of teams, and various political stuff. Some of these are half slots that require a playoff with another region.\n\n\nThen each of the regional confederation determines how to determine which teams will qualify for the spots they have been alloted. \n\nEach region is different and can vary from one cup to the next.  Here is how it went this time around.\n\nEurope - 8 "Random" pools are created and the winners (and next two best teams) qualify and then the second place teams are randomly paired with a home and home deciding who gets the remaing spot\n\nConcacaf has several stages to create a final group of 6 who play round robin with the first 3 qualifying and the 4th going to a playoff with another region.\n\nS. America just has one large pool where everyone plays everyone home and away with the top 4 qualifying and the fifth going to a playoff.\n\nAfrica has 5 groups with the winners of the groups qualifying.\n\nAsia has 3 stages of groups with the final one having 2 groups.  Top two in each qualifiy with the third playing each other for a chance at a playoff with another region\n\nOceania has only a half spot with the top two teams in the final group stage playing each other for the right to play \na team in another region for the right to go to.