Petr Cech voted second best in world
Tuesday, Jan 18, 2005
The German based International Federation of Football History and Statistics has voted Petr Cech the second best goalkeeper in the world during 2004.
He has risen from tenth in 2003 to take his place behind the winner both times, Juventus’ Gianluigi Buffon.
Since 1987, IFFHS have honoured the best world goalkeeper based upon yearly voting from a list of candidates. All specialised media (press, radio, television) plus a panel of experts make up the selection jury. They take into consideration the performances of goalkeepers with their clubs and national teams.
Each country has one vote, the bigger soccer countries have two votes.
The top 22 keepers are: 1 Buffon (Juventus) 185 votes; 2 Cech (Chelsea) 125; 3 Dida (Milan) 78; 4 Casillas (Real Madrid) 75; 5 Nikopolidis (Olympiakos) 64; 6 Kahn (Bayern Munich) 39; 7 Abbondanzieri (Boca Jrs) 31; 8= Baía (Porto), Henao (Once Caldas Manizales) 29; 10 Canizares (Valencia) 23; 11 Van der Sar (Fulham) 18; 12 Lehmann (Arsenal) 17; 13 Isaksson (Rennes) 16; 14 Valdés (Barcelona) 15; 15 Villar (Newell’s Old Boys) 14; 16 Toldo (Inter) 13; 17 Woon-Jae (Suwon Samsung Blue-Wings) 11; 18 Sorensen (Aston Villa) 10; 19 Ricardo (Sporting Lisbon) 8; 20 Barthez (Marseille) 7; 21= Hildebrand (Stuttgart), Kameni (Espanyol) 6.
The only other Chelsea keepers to have appeared in the list were Dmitri Kharine who was fourth in 1992 when he was still at CSKA Moscow and Carlo Cudicini who was 11th last year.
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it is a great achievment for cech to finish second in a list such as that and to come second to buffon is no shame at all. he beat dida and casillas for the second spot and they are class keepers. i think he will win it in a couple of years if not next year.
Tuesday, Jan 18, 2005
The German based International Federation of Football History and Statistics has voted Petr Cech the second best goalkeeper in the world during 2004.
He has risen from tenth in 2003 to take his place behind the winner both times, Juventus’ Gianluigi Buffon.
Since 1987, IFFHS have honoured the best world goalkeeper based upon yearly voting from a list of candidates. All specialised media (press, radio, television) plus a panel of experts make up the selection jury. They take into consideration the performances of goalkeepers with their clubs and national teams.
Each country has one vote, the bigger soccer countries have two votes.
The top 22 keepers are: 1 Buffon (Juventus) 185 votes; 2 Cech (Chelsea) 125; 3 Dida (Milan) 78; 4 Casillas (Real Madrid) 75; 5 Nikopolidis (Olympiakos) 64; 6 Kahn (Bayern Munich) 39; 7 Abbondanzieri (Boca Jrs) 31; 8= Baía (Porto), Henao (Once Caldas Manizales) 29; 10 Canizares (Valencia) 23; 11 Van der Sar (Fulham) 18; 12 Lehmann (Arsenal) 17; 13 Isaksson (Rennes) 16; 14 Valdés (Barcelona) 15; 15 Villar (Newell’s Old Boys) 14; 16 Toldo (Inter) 13; 17 Woon-Jae (Suwon Samsung Blue-Wings) 11; 18 Sorensen (Aston Villa) 10; 19 Ricardo (Sporting Lisbon) 8; 20 Barthez (Marseille) 7; 21= Hildebrand (Stuttgart), Kameni (Espanyol) 6.
The only other Chelsea keepers to have appeared in the list were Dmitri Kharine who was fourth in 1992 when he was still at CSKA Moscow and Carlo Cudicini who was 11th last year.
www.chelseafc.com
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it is a great achievment for cech to finish second in a list such as that and to come second to buffon is no shame at all. he beat dida and casillas for the second spot and they are class keepers. i think he will win it in a couple of years if not next year.
