Top 30 French Premier League players

1. Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 

2. Éric Cantona (Leeds, Man United) 

3. Patrick Vieira (Arsenal, Man City) 

4. Claude Makélélé (Chelsea) 

5. David Ginola (Newcastle, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Everton) 

6. Robert Pirès (Arsenal, Aston Villa) 

7. N'Golo Kanté (Leicester, Chelsea) 

8. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal, Chelsea) 

9. Emmanuel Petit (Arsenal, Chelsea) 

10. Marcel Desailly (Chelsea) 

11. Patrice Evra (Man United) 

12. Nicolas Anelka (Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City, Bolton, Chelsea, WBA) 

13. Paul Pogba (Man United) 

14. Samir Nasri (Arsenal, Man City, West Ham) 

15. William Gallas (Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham) 

16. Bacary Sagna (Arsenal, Man City) 

17. Hugo Lloris (Tottenham) 

18. Florent Malouda (Chelsea) 

19. Laurent Blanc (Man United) 

20. Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle, Crystal Palace) 

21. Sylvain Wiltord (Arsenal) 

22. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) 

23. Gaël Clichy (Arsenal, Man City) 

24. Youri Djorkaeff (Bolton, Blackburn) 

25. Louis Saha (Newcastle, Fulham, Man United, Everton, Sunderland) 

26. Fabien Barthez (Man United) 

27. Anthony Martial (Man United) 

28. Dimitri Payet (West Ham) 

29. Didier Six (Aston Villa) 

30. Olivier Dacourt (Everton, Leeds, Fulham) 

Best /worst of the 1997/98 season polls

MATCH OF THE SEASON

Man Utd 3 Juventus 2 31% 

Arsenal 3 Man Utd 2 30% 

Man Utd 0 Arsenal 1 26%

GOAL OF THE SEASON

Dennis Bergkamp (Arsenal) v Leicester 53% 

Steve McManaman (Liverpool) v Celtic 26% 

Kevin Davies (Southampton) v Everton 11%

BEST PLAYER

Dennis Bergkamp (Arsenal) 59% 

Michael Owen (Liverpool) 24% 

David Ginola (Tottenham) 9%

BEST BUY

Emmanuel Petit (Monaco-Arsenal) 39% 

Alex Manninger (Grazer AK-Arsenal) 38% 

Kevin Davies (Chesterfield-Southampton) 16%

WORST BUY

Stan Collymore (Liverpool-Aston Villa) 77% 

Itzak Zohar (Royal Antwerp-Crystal Palace) 9% 

Teddy Sheringham (Tottenham-Man Utd) 7%

BEST NEWCOMER

Michael Owen (Liverpool) 61% 

Alex Manninger (Arsenal) 30% 

Rio Ferdinand (West Ham) 3%

BEST STRIKER

Dennis Bergkamp (Arsenal) 54% 

Michael Owen (Liverpool) 28% 

John Hartson (West Ham) 9%

BEST MANAGER

Arsène Wenger (Arsenal) 79% 

Danny Wilson (Barnsley) 9% 

Alex Ferguson (Man Utd) 8%

WORST MANAGER

Frank Clark (ex-Man City) 43% 

Howard Kendall (Everton) 39% 

Kenny Dalglish (Newcastle) 12%

BIGGEST MOANER

Kenny Dalglish (Newcastle) 38% 

Alex Ferguson (Man Utd) 35% 

Alan Shearer (Newcastle) 19%

UNSUNG HERO

Neil Redfearn (Barnsley) 43% 

Sammy McIlroy (Macclesfield) 37% 

Giuliano Grazioli (Stevenage) 11%

The Sun.

Top rated players in the 1998 World Cup

At least 4 rated appearances. Source: Guerin Sportivo.

7,12 Luis Hernández (4, Mex)

7,10 Zinédine Zidane (5, Fra), Gianluca Pagliuca (5, Ita)

7,08 Lilian Thuram (6, Fra)

7,00 Christian Vieri (5, Ita)

6,88 Roberto Baggio (4, Ita), José Luis Chilavert (4, Par), Vladimir Jugović (4, Yug)

6,80 Luigi Di Biagio (5, Ita), Oliver Bierhoff (5, Ger)

6,75 Emmanuel Petit (6, Fra), Edgar Davids (6, Ned), Michael Owen (4, Eng)

6,67 Didier Deschamps (6, Fra)

6,62 Miguel Ángel Benítez (4, Par), Jesús Arellano, Cuauhtémoc Blanco (4, Mex)

6,60 Paolo Maldini (5, Ita), Martin Jørgensen, Michael Laudrup (5, Den)

6,57 Aimé Jacquet (Fra), Ronaldo (7, Bra), Davor Šuker (7, Cro)

France ratings in the Euro 2000

7,10 Zinédine Zidane

6,66 Thierry Henry

6,53 Fabien Barthez, Laurent Blanc

6,46 Sylvain Wiltord

6,38 Bixente Lizarazu

6,33 Didier Deschamps, David Trezeguet

6,31  Patrick Vieira

6,29 Marcel Desailly

6,27 Christophe Dugarry

6,21 Youri Djorkaeff

6,07 Lilian Thuram

5,79 Emmanuel Petit

5,64 Nicolas Anelka

France ratings in the 1998 World Cup

 

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - Kicker - El Mundo Deportivo - La Stampa - La Repubblica.

7,23 Lilian Thuram
7,00 Zinédine Zidane
6,96 Emmanuel Petit
6,74 Marcel Desailly
6,70 Frank Leboeuf
6,68 Didier Deschamps
6,64 Fabien Barthez
6,45 Bixente Lizarazu, Laurent Blanc
6,37 Alain Boghossian
6,28 Youri Djorkaeff, Thierry Henry
6,25 Christophe Dugarry
6,04 Bernard Diomède
5,97 Christian Karembeu
5,93 David Trezeguet
5,85 Robert Pires
5,38 Stéphane Guivarc'h

Memory Lane: 1998 World Cup (L'Équipe ratings)

 

At least five rated appearances.

7,17 Thuram (France)
7,07 Desailly (France)
6,92 Petit (France)
6,60 B. Laudrup (Denmark)
6,40 Ortega & Verón (Argentina), Bergkamp (Holland)
6,36 Rivaldo (Brazil)
6,33 Davids (Holland)
6,30 Henry (France)

The final, France 3, Brazil 0.
France: Barthez 8 — Desailly 7,5, Lizarazu 7, Thuram 8, Lebœuf 7 — Deschamps 7,5, Djorkaeff 7 (74' Vieira), Zidane 9, Karembeu 6 (56' Boghossian) — Petit 7,5, Guivarc'h 6 (66' Dugarry). = average: 7,32.
Brasilien: Taffarel 5,5 — Cafú 5, Júnior Baiano 4, Aldair 3,5, Roberto Carlos 4,5 — César Sampaio 4,5 (57' Edmundo), Leonardo 4,5 (46' Denílson 6), Dunga 4,5, Rivaldo 5 — Ronaldo 4, Bebeto 4. = average: 4,58.

Les notes des Bleus Champions du Monde 1998

Notes: Guerin Sportivo - Kicker - El Mundo Deportivo - La Stampa - La Repubblica.

7,23 Lilian Thuram
7,00 Zinédine Zidane
6,96 Emmanuel Petit
6,74 Marcel Desailly
6,70 Frank Leboeuf
6,68 Didier Deschamps
6,64 Fabien Barthez
6,45 Bixente Lizarazu, Laurent Blanc
6,37 Alain Boghossian
6,28 Youri Djorkaeff, Thierry Henry
6,25 Christophe Dugarry
6,04 Bernard Diomède
5,97 Christian Karembeu
5,93 David Trezeguet
5,85 Robert Pires
5,38 Stéphane Guivarc'h

Average ratings in Euros & World Cups, 2000-2012, part 6/16.

Ratings: Kicker.

6,53 Mertesacker (rated 19 times)
6,50 Podolski (24), Gallas (17), Simão (15), Costinha (14), Karagounis, Rooney (13), Petit (11), P. Müller, Grosso (10), Rui Costa, Wiltord, Barnetta (9), Fernando Meira (8)
6,46 Kuyt (12)
6,45 Cafu (11)

France: average ratings in Euros & World Cups 2000-12.

At least 5 rated appearances. Ratings: Kicker.

7,50 Blanc (rated 5 times)
7,25 Zidane (16)
7,07 Lloris (7)
7,03 Vieira (19)
6,97 Barthez (19)
6,90 Petit (5)
6,82 Henry (20)
6,72 Ribéry (16)
6,70 Desailly (10), Evra, Deschamps & Djorkaeff (5)
6,61 Makelele (14)
6,55 Thuram (21), Lizarazu (10)
6,50 Gallas (17), Wiltord (9)
6,35 Sagnol & Trezeguet (10)
6,33 Dugarry (6)
6,30 Toulalan (5)
6,20 Pirès (5)
6,15 Abidal (10)
6,10 A. Diarra (5)
6,04 Malouda (13)
6,00 Benzema (6)
5,70 Silvestre (5)
5,42 Anelka (6)

Memory Lane: 1998 World Cup (L'Équipe)

At least five rated appearances.

7,17 Thuram (France)
7,07 Desailly (France)
6,92 Petit (France)
6,60 B. Laudrup (Denmark)
6,40 Ortega & Verón (Argentina), Bergkamp (Holland)
6,36 Rivaldo (Brazil)
6,33 Davids (Holland)
6,30 Henry (France)

The final, France 3, Brazil 0.
France: Barthez 8 — Desailly 7,5, Lizarazu 7, Thuram 8, Lebœuf 7 — Deschamps 7,5, Djorkaeff 7 (74' Vieira), Zidane 9, Karembeu 6 (56' Boghossian) — Petit 7,5, Guivarc'h 6 (66' Dugarry). = average: 7,32.
Brasilien: Taffarel 5,5 — Cafú 5, Júnior Baiano 4, Aldair 3,5, Roberto Carlos 4,5 — César Sampaio 4,5 (57' Edmundo), Leonardo 4,5 (46' Denílson 6), Dunga 4,5, Rivaldo 5 — Ronaldo 4, Bebeto 4. = average: 4,58.

Average ratings World Cup 1998.

Ratings: Gazzetta dello Sport - Corriere della Sera - La Repubblica - L’Unità - La Nazione - Il Giornale.

7,10: Thuram
7,00: Zidane
6,95: Davids
6,90: Mondragón
6,75: Pagliuca, Ince, Owen, Luis Hernández
6,70: Petit, Vieri
6,65: Desailly, Bierhoff
6,60: Di Biagio, Mahdavikia
6,55: B. Laudrup, R. Baggio
6,50: Barthez, Dunga, F. Cannavaro, Overmars, Šuker, Blanco, Wilmots
6,45: M. Laudrup, Deschamps, Rivaldo, Bergomi
6,40: Ronaldo, Hadji, Konsel
6,35: Verón, Lizarazu, Costacurta, F. de Boer, Seedorf, R. de Boer, Scholes
6,30: Simeone, Blanc, Boghossian, Cafú, César Sampaio, Ladić, Boban, Mboma, César Ramírez
6,25: Ortega, Helveg, Luis Enrique, Winter, Tahar, Mihajlović, Hejduk, Azizi, Arellano
6,20: Schmeichel, van der Sar, Bergkamp, Jonk, Bilić, Adams, G. Neville, Komljenović, Njanka, Daei, Bagheri
6,15: Batistuta, Henry, Cocu, Asanović, Campbell, Matthäus, El Ouaer, Nakata
6,10: Heinze, Seaman, Leighton, Collins, Wome
6,05: Almeyda, Jørgensen, Campo, Soldo, Tarnat, Bassir, S. Trabelsi, Jugović, García Aspe
6,00: Djorkaeff, Taffarel, Maldini, Stimac, Prosinečki, Šimić, Anderton, Shearer, Hamann, Dailly, Mohamedkhani, Kawaguchi, Soma, Whitmore, Kralj
5,95: Roa, Colding, Leonardo, Stam, Jarni, Jeremies, Mykland, Deflandre
5,90: J. Zanetti, Schjønberg, Karembeu, Roberto Carlos, D. Baggio, Hierro, Raúl, Reiziger, Stanić, Vlaović, Jurcić, Le Saux, Soulimani, Pashazadeh, Akita, Yamaguchi, Gardner
5,85: C. López, Chamot, Denílson, Sergi, Numan, Grodås, Lambert, Borkelmans, Petrović, Khakpour, Nanami, Pardo
5,80: Ayala, Rieper, A. Nielsen, Aldair, Moriero, Kohler, Davino, T.A. Flo, Saber, Durie, Al Jaber, Zdravkov, Nilis, Stewart, Minavand, Lozano, Germán Villa
5,75: Vivas, Diomède, Alkorta, Etxeberria, Kluivert, Beckham, Rekdal, H. Flo, Wetl, Ndo, Zubromawi, Moshoeu, Mkhalele, Balakov, Dooley, Regis, Ihara, Djorović, Jokanović
5,70: Høgh, Júnior Baiano, Di Livio, P. Møller, Klinsmann, Berg, Chippo, Fish, Suárez
5,65: Bebeto, Thon, Eggen, Pfeifenberger, Kühbauer, Song, Al Deayea, McCarthy, Reyna, Estili, Chihi, Souayah, Narahashi, Nakayama
5,60: Trezeguet, Köpke, Wörns, Riseth, Naybet, Hendry, Burley, Mählich, Vonk, Radebe
5,55: Heinrich, Feiersinger, C. Jones, Sellimi, Stojković
5,50: Guivarc’h, Pfeffer, Amin, Al Shahrani, Fortune, Iliev, Serna, Jo
5,45: Albertini, Amor, Hässler
5,40: Sand, Johnsen, Bjørnebye, Al Jahani, Bermúdez, Palacios, Valderrama, Goodison, Hall
5,35: Lara
5,30: Del Piero, Zubizarreta, T. Ivanov, Cabrera, Aristizábal, Sinclair, Stanković
5,25: Omam Biyik, Issa, Rincón, Mijatović
5,10: Schöttel
5,05: Kiko, Kishishev
5,00: Benzekri, Stoichkov