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Topic: FWA Footballer of the Year

	Thierry Henry Biography
		June: Voted PFA player of the year and Football Writers' Association player of the year.
		December: Runner-up in European Footballer of the Year poll, same position in FIFA world player of the year poll.
		April: Voted Footballer of the Year for the third time in four years by the Football Writers' Association, becomes the first player in 59 years of the award to receive the accolade three times.
	www.14henry.com /Biography.htm (439 words)

	Frank Lampard biography
		He was also named FWA Footballer of the Year in 2005.
		Lampard was voted English Footballer of the Year and earned the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year in 2005.
		In Winter 2005 he was voted runner-up twice to Ronaldinho, firstly in the European Footballer of the Year award, and secondly in the Fifa World Player of the Year Award.
	franklampard.soccerstar.org /frank-lampard-biography.aspx (1809 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Sheringham named Footballer of the Year
		Manchester United striker Teddy Sheringham has been named as the Football Writers' Association's Footballer of the Year for 2000/01.
		It has been seven years since an Englishman last won the prestigous award - Alan Shearer won it back in 1994 - and Sheringham is thrilled with the announcement.
		Paul McCarthy, chairman of the FWA, explained why the association chose Sheringham as the recipient.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2001/0420/sheringhamt.html (219 words)

	Football world cup web.com - The Unofficial World cup site - What's your World Cup?
		Henry won football's oldest individual award for the first time last year when he pipped Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy to the post by a narrow margin.
		Gerry Cox, chairman of the Football Writers' Association, said: "Last year it was a close contest and a somewhat controversial outcome, but this time Thierry Henry has been the runaway winner.
		Henry will be honoured at the FWA's Footballer of the Year dinner in London on May 20.
	www.worldcupweb.com /WCfootball/item.asp?NewsID=73 (411 words)

	Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year is an annual award presented by the Football Writers' Association to whom its members deem the best football player in England.
		It is now considered to be among the two most prestigious of individual awards in domestic English football alongside the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.
		It has been conferred every year since 1948.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FWA_Footballer_of_the_Year (123 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Henry is Player of the Year
		Thierry Henry has been named Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers' Association.
		He is also the 11th player to win both the PFA and FWA trophies in the same season.
		The FWA award has been running since Stanley Matthews became the first winner in 1948.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2003/0502/henryt.html (123 words)

	THIERRY HENRY Football Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		He was runner-up for the 2003 and 2004 FIFA World Player of the Year award while helping Arsenal to an unbeaten record (26 wins, 12 draws) in the Premiership.
		He has also won the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year three times, the PFA Players' Player of the Year twice, and the French Player Of The Year on four occasions — an all-time record.
		Thierry Henry is the only player ever to have won three FWA Footballer of the Year awards, in 2003, 2004 and 2006.
	sport.y2u.co.uk /Football_England/FAp_Thierry_Henry.htm (2121 words)

	Hard-pressed To Find A Better Striker In The World - A Pakistani Forum : Online Discussion Community
		The award comes from the Football Writers' Association and only those journalists who earn their living from covering the game are allowed to vote.
		It was the biggest winning margin for 34 years and meant the French striker had won the trophy for the second successive year.
		Gerry Cox, chair of the FWA, explained to Arsenal.com the significance of this particular achievement.
	www.muziqpakistan.com /board/index.php?showtopic=28419 (854 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| How Fleet Street chooses its man
		The PFA Player of the Year is often hailed as the award that means most, voted for as it is by the victor's peers.
		But history tells us that the Football Writers' Association (FWA) Footballer of the year - the oldest award of its kind - is the slightly more reliable and credible prize.
		The FWA comprises around 400 journalists (the number varies slightly from year to year), all of whom must spend at least 75% of their job writing about football.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/football/4520643.stm (676 words)

	Thierry Henry - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Thierry Henry trained at the French Football Federation's academy at Clairefontaine and played at a youth level for CO Les Ulis (1983-1989), then Palaiseau (1989-1990), Viry-Châtillon (1990-1992) and FC Versailles (1992-1993).
		He was runner-up for the 2003 and 2004 FIFA World Player of the Year award while helping Arsenal to an unbeaten record (26 wins, 12 draws) in the Premiership when many thought he was the best player in the world during that period.
		He has also won the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year three times, the PFA Players' Player of the Year twice, and the French Player Of The Year on four occasions - an all-time record.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Thierry_Henry (1956 words)

	Football Writers' Association: The FWA Footballer of the Year Award
		It was Charles Buchan, the publisher and writer of Football Monthly as well as one of the founding fathers of the FWA, who suggested that an award should be given "to the professional player who by precept and example is considered by a ballot of members to be the footballer of the year."
		That was back in 1947 and since then the Footballer of the Year Award has become the most prestigious award in the British game.
		Voted for year on year by the FWA members, the first recipient was the legendary Sir Stanley Matthews and ever since players have been honoured for their achievements.
	www.footballwriters.co.uk /awards/footballer-of-the-year (131 words)

	English Footballer of the Year
		This is determined by two awards; one voted on by the players, the PFA award, and one voted on by the media, the FWA award.
		The FWA award originated in 1948 and the PFA in 1974.
		Roy Keane received overwhelming support as Player of the Year with 53% of the vote in the PFA, the largest winning margin in its history.
	endlesssoccer.tripod.com /awards/england2000.htm (115 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 336 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Thierry Henry has become the first player to win the footballer-of-the-year award in successive seasons after he swept almost 90 per cent of the votes cast in the annual poll.
		FWA chairman Gerry Cox said on Monday: "Last year it was a close contest and a somewhat controversial outcome with Henry narrowly beating Ruud Van Nistelrooy, but this time he has been the runaway winner.
		Henry will be presented with the award at an FWA dinner on May 20.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/05/11/d40511042051.htm (263 words)

	Thierry Henry page from Arseweb's ArseSouls
		Thierry was the first (and to date, only) player to win the FWA Player of the Year award in successive years, and the only player to win it three times.
		The Soccer AM Golden shoe award (won by Henry 3 years in a row from 2004-06) is for the player who finishes the season with the highest goals-to-games ratio.
		The Golden Espadrille (also won by Henry the same years) is the same but includes the Italian and Spanish leagues as well.
	arseweb.com /sq/squad00012.html (327 words)

	Robert Pires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Robert Pires (born October 29, 1973 in Reims, France) is a French international football player, of Portuguese and Spanish descent.
		He led the Premiership assist charts and was voted both FWA Footballer of the Year and Arsenal's player of the season, as Arsenal won the league title.
		Pirès was part of France's 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winning squads (Pirès laid on the pass for David Trézéguet's winning goal in the final), but had to miss the 2002 World Cup due to the injury he sustained playing for Arsenal.
	www.123football.com /players/p/robert-pires/index.htm (713 words)

	Ronaldo is Footballer of the Year - CNN.com
		LONDON, England -- Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United was named Footballer of the Year on Friday, completing an unprecedented clean sweep of England's three major individual honors this season.
		FWA chairman Paul Hetherington said: "(It) completes a remarkable turnaround for the player, who was so heavily criticized during last year's World Cup for his part in the sending-off of club mate Wayne Rooney when England played Portugal in the quarter-finals.
		Ronaldo was also voted Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year by the Professional Footballers' Association last month.
	www.cnn.com /2007/SPORT/football/05/04/england.ronaldo/index.html?eref=rss_latest (348 words)

	English Premier League: Players Profiles - Latest News - Football Information
		Senderos has played at all levels of football from the Under 15s upward for Switzerland, first coming to the general football world’s attention when he captained Switzerland to a European U-17 Championship in 2002.
		He then went on to become the club’s youngest goalscorer at 16 years 212 days when he netted in the 5-1 win over Wolves in the next round.
		Completed a hat-trick of FWA Player of the Year accolades by picking up the 2006 award shortly before agreeing a new four-year contract with the club in May 2006.
	www.english-premier-league.info (1122 words)

	Ian Rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was voted PFA Young Player of the Year in 1983 after inspiring Liverpool to glory in the League championship and League Cup.
		He was voted PFA Player of the Year in 1984 as Liverpool retained both the League and the League Cup and won the European Cup to complete a unique treble that season.
		It was no surprise that Rush also added the Football Writers Footballer of the Year to the PFA award he had already claimed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_Rush (2895 words)

	Lampard Can’t Be Stopped - CaughtOffside.com - A Kind And Gentle Football Blog.
		I was in the wilderness for a couple of years after that but I’ve come back.
		He has won the Intertoto Cup with West Ham, been voted the England team’s Player of the Year by the fans, and he has top scored for England at the European Championships in 2004.
		Three central defenders stumbling over themselves, two wing-backs who rarely went forward, two novice and quite incompetent partners in midfield and two forwards who never sought to go beyond the opposition’s defence is barely a football team at all, let alone one from whom lessons of any nature can be learned.
	www.caughtoffside.com /lampard-to-earn-50th-cap-for-some-reason.html (3238 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		Arsenal striker and captain Thierry Henry was voted England's Footballer of the Year for the third time in four years by the Football Writers' Association (FWA) on Thursday.
		The Frenchman, top scorer in the Premier League this season with 23 goals and instrumental in helping Arsenal reach the UEFA Champions League final, was a clear winner ahead of runner-up John Terry of Chelsea and Manchester United's Wayne Rooney.
		Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, the Professional Footballer's Association (PFA) Player of the Year, finished fourth ahead of Joe Cole and last year's winner Frank Lampard.
	www.fifa.com /en/print/article/0,4039,117355,00.html (294 words)

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		A supporter of the fl n' whites, and of Kevin Keegan, as a teenager, Alan was once at St James Park for trials, but ended up in goal for part of the time and his talent was lost to Southampton.
		Netting a hat-trick on his first full league outing for the Saints against Arsenal he became, at 17 years old, the youngest player to do so in the top flight.
		By the time he had developed into an up and coming young striker at Southampton, claiming a record 13 goals for the England Under-21 side, United tried to take him back to Tyneside during 1992 with a £3 million bid.
	meganc001.tripod.com /nufcprofile.htm (565 words)

	Henry create history for FWA Footballer of The Year l Jee’s soccer blog, soccer chat and soccer talk
		Samuel Eto’o hattrick African Footballer of the Year
		Samuel Eto'o was named African Footballer of the Year for the 3rd consecutive year, just 2 votes ahead of Didier Drogba.
		Arauja is Japan Footballer of the Year in a poll of Japanese soccer writers.
	soccer.jeelife.com /2006/05/12/henry-create-history-for-fwa-footballer-of-the-year... (359 words)

	BreakingNews.ie - 2003/05/02: Henry named Writers' Footballer of the Year
		Thierry Henry was today named Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association.
		Henry will be presented with his trophy at the FWA’s annual dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on May 15.
		Gerry Cox, chairman of the FWA, told The Press Association: “Thierry Henry is a worthy winner who has scored some magnificent goals this season and made another massive contribution to Arsenal’s season.
	archives.tcm.ie /breakingnews/2003/05/02/story97514.asp (292 words)

	Ronaldo named Footballer of the Year \| Sports \| Reuters
		LONDON (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United was named Footballer of the Year on Friday, completing an unprecedented clean sweep of England's three major individual honours this season.
		The Portugal winger finished ahead of Didier Drogba of Chelsea and United team mates Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes in the 60th vote organised by the Football Writers' Association (FWA).
		FWA chairman Paul Hetherington said: "(It) completes a remarkable turnaround for the player, who was so heavily criticised during last year's World Cup for his part in the sending-off of club mate Wayne Rooney when England played Portugal in the quarter-finals.
	uk.reuters.com /article/sportsNews/idUKL0303432320070504 (294 words)

	Sports
		Last year both the competitions were sponsored by Western Union and the MFLC hoped the company will continue the sponsorship this year.
		It claims that while the red lenses are ideal for fast-moving sports such as football, grey lenses are the key to golfers being able to discern the lie of the land on a putting green.
		The FWA comprises around 400 journalists (the number varies slightly from year to year), all of whom must spend at least 75 per cent of their job writing about football.
	www.newagebd.com /2005/may/07/spt.html (8136 words)

	Astroyogi.com - Discover your future. Design your destiny. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Regarded as one of the top players in the world, he currently plays as a striker for the French national team and for Arsenal, where he is that club's all-time leading scorer in both league matches and all competitions.
		Henry started his professional career at AS Monaco and was given his début in 1994 by then Monaco manager, Arsène Wenger at the tender age of 17.
		In 2004-05, despite Arsenal being the runners-up in the Premiership, Henry emerged with the European Golden Boot for the second consecutive year (albeit sharing it with Villarreal's Diego Forlan in 2005).
	www.astroyogi.com /articles/henry_1.htm (629 words)

	The Story of a Premiership Season - 2000 Cups & Awards
		The last cup final at Wembley proved to be one of the worst football matches staged there, perhaps spoiled by the playing of both semi-finals at the same venue for the first time.
		Zola’s free-kick was poorly punched by David James and bounced off Gareth Southgate for Di Matteo to crash the ball into the roof of the net.
		It was a sad occasion for football reflected in the lowest FA Cup Final attendance since the last pre-Wembley final at Stamford Bridge in 1922.
	www.football-nut.co.uk /articles/prem2000/premiership-cups-2000.html (246 words)

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