1969 Ballon d'Or

1969 Ballon d'Or
1969 Ballon d'Or winner, Gianni Rivera
Date23 December 1969
LocationParis, France
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won byItaly Gianni Rivera (1st award)
Websiteballondor.com

The 1969 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to the Italian midfielder Gianni Rivera (Milan) on 23 December 1969.[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.[2] Rivera became the second Italian to win the award, after Omar Sívori in 1961. He was also the first Milan player to win the trophy.[3]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1Gianni RiveraItaly Milan Italy83
2Gigi RivaItaly Cagliari Italy79
3Gerd MüllerGermany Bayern Munich West Germany38
4Johan CruyffNetherlands Ajax Netherlands30
Ove KindvallNetherlands Feyenoord Sweden
6George BestEngland Manchester United Northern Ireland21
7Franz BeckenbauerGermany Bayern Munich West Germany18
8Pierino PratiItaly Milan Italy17
9Petar ZhekovBulgaria CSKA Sofia Bulgaria14
10Jack CharltonEngland Leeds United England10
11Albert ShesternyovSoviet Union CSKA Moscow Soviet Union8
12Dragan DžajićSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia6
13Francis LeeEngland Manchester City England4
Martin PetersEngland West Ham United England
15Jozef AdamecCzechoslovakia Spartak Trnava Czechoslovakia3
Bobby CharltonEngland Manchester United England
Angelo SormaniItaly Milan Italy
18Ferenc BeneHungary Újpest Hungary2
Andrej KvašňákBelgium KRC Mechelen Czechoslovakia
Louis PilotBelgium Standard Liège Luxembourg
Giorgos SiderisGreece Olympiacos Greece
Manuel VelázquezSpain Real Madrid Spain
23Billy BremnerEngland Leeds United Scotland1
Kazimierz DeynaPoland Legia Warsaw Poland
Mimis DomazosGreece Panathinaikos Greece
Gilbert GressGermany VfB Stuttgart France
Jimmy JohnstoneScotland Celtic Scotland
Włodzimierz LubańskiPoland Górnik Zabrze Poland
Vladimir MuntyanSoviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union
Wilfried Van MoerBelgium Standard Liège Belgium
Ivo ViktorCzechoslovakia Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia

References

  1. ↑ "1969 – Gianni Rivera". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1969". RSSSF. 22 June 2005. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 21 January 2011. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
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