The Fédération Internationale Des Associations de Footballeurs Professionels, usually known by the abbreviation FIFPro, is a worldwide representative organization for professional football players. At the moment there are 42 national players associations who are member of FIFPro. The World XI team is also included on the video game FIFA series. Soccer redirects here. ...

Brief history

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The Board

Current: FIFPro Board

President: Gordon Taylor (PFA, England) Gordon Taylor (born 28 December 1944 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is a former footballer and current chief executive of the English footballers trade union, the Professional Footballers Association. ... The Professional Footballers Association is the association for professional footballers in the United Kingdom. ...

General-Secretary: Theo van Seggelen (VVCS, Netherlands)

Vice-presidents: Philippe Piat (UNFP, France), Leonardo Grosso (AIC, Italy), Gerardo G. Movilla (AFE, Spain), Jorge Dominguez (FAA, Argentina)

Secretary to the FIFPro board: Frederique Winia (Netherlands)

Awards

In 2005, FIFPro launched its inaugural "World XI Player Awards", "World Player of the Year" and "Young Player of the Year" awards. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

World XI

The World XI are chosen by the footballers themselves from a list of candidates for each position. The list is generated by the awards committee itself.

• John Terry and Ronaldinho are the only two players to have been nominated in every FIFPro World XI team, while Zinedine Zidane had been nominated in both teams before his retirement in 2006.

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World Player of the Year

The player with the most votes in the World XI balloting is also named World Player of the Year.

Season	Player	Team
2004-2005 Jordi Cruyff	2005-2006	Ronaldinho	F.C. Barcelona
2006-2007	Kaká	AC Milan

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Young Player of the Year

Two players are chosen for this award; one by the awards committee, and the other by fans.

Year	Player (by awards committee)	Player (by fans - known as the Special Young Player of the Year)
2004-2005	Wayne Rooney ( Manchester United)	Cristiano Ronaldo ( Manchester United)
2005-2006	Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona)	Cristiano Ronaldo ( Manchester United)
2006-2007	Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona)	Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona)

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Members

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External links

• FIFPro Official Website
• FIFPro World XI Website