the uefa golden jubilee poll is the popular name for an online poll conducted in 2004 by uefa as part of their golden jubilee celebrations, celebrating the best european footballers from the fifty previous years. the poll, available on uefa's website, asked respondents to pick their ten favorite players from each of the five previous decades, from a shortlist of 250 players. over 150,000 people responded, producing over seven million votes. zinedine zidane topped the poll narrowly from franz beckenbauer. italian players featured most frequently with 10 nominations, edging out german players with 8 nominations. ==full results== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- style="background:#ccccff;" ! !player !nation !votes |- |1||zinedine zidane||||123,582 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |2||franz beckenbauer||||122,569 |- |3||johan cruyff||||119,332 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |4||marco van basten||||117,987 |- |5||dino zoff||||114,529 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |6||alfredo di stÃ©fano|| ||107,435 |- |7||eusÃ©bio||||103,937 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |8||lev yashin||||101,862 |- |9||michel platini||||99,380 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |10||paolo maldini||||95,497 |- |11||ferenc puskÃ¡s|| ||94,361 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |12||paolo rossi||||91,194 |- |13||ruud gullit||||91,001 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |14||bobby charlton||||89,921 |- |15||lothar matthÃ¤us|| ||86,798 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |16||karl-heinz rummenigge||||86,649 |- |17||franco baresi||||83,800 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |18||gerd mÃ¼ller||||82,668 |- |19||george best||||79,036 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |20||kevin keegan||||78,840 |- |21||frank rijkaard||||71,333 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |22||luÃ­s figo||||71,299 |- |23||bobby moore||||70,884 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |24||roberto baggio||||68,239 |- |25||michael laudrup||||67,484 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |26||ronald koeman||||66,661 |- |27||peter schmeichel||||66,463 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |28||gheorghe hagi||||62,383 |- |29||sepp maier||||62,375 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |30||oliver kahn||||58,151 |- |31||davor Å uker||||58,078 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |32||raÃºl||||56,880 |- |33||berti vogts||||55,398 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |34||johan neeskens||||54,796 |- |35||gianni rivera||||53,874 |- bgcolor="#efefef" |36||josÃ© antonio camacho||||53,873 |- |37||marco tardelli||
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