| 1999 Ballon d'Or | ||||
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 1999 Ballon d'Or winner Rivaldo in 2014 | ||||
| Date | 21 December 1999 | |||
| Presented by | France Football | |||
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| Won by |  Rivaldo (1st award) | |||
| Website | francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or | |||
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The1999 Ballon d'Or, given to the bestfootball player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists fromUEFA member countries, was awarded toRivaldo on 21 December 1999.[1]
Additionally, 22 players were nominated but received no votes:Fabien Barthez (Monaco & France),Dennis Bergkamp (Arsenal and Netherlands),Laurent Blanc (Marseille/Inter Milan & France),Gianluigi Buffon (Parma & Italy),Frank de Boer (Ajax/Barcelona & Netherlands),Marcel Desailly (Chelsea & France),Giovane Élber (Bayern Munich & Brazil),Pep Guardiola (Barcelona & Spain),Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus & Italy),Patrick Kluivert (Barcelona & Netherlands),Paolo Maldini (Milan & Italy),Fernando Morientes (Real Madrid & Spain),Hidetoshi Nakata (Perugia & Japan),Emmanuel Petit (Arsenal & France),Gus Poyet (Chelsea & Uruguay),Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (Dynamo Kyiv & Ukraine),Lilian Thuram (Parma & France),Sylvain Wiltord (Bordeaux & France) andGianfranco Zola (Chelsea & Italy).
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