1982 Ballon d'Or

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1982 Ballon d'Or
1982 Ballon d'Or winner Paolo Rossi
Date28 December 1982[citation needed]
Presented byFrance Football
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 1982 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Paolo Rossi on 28 December 1982.[1]

Rossi was the third Italian national to win the award after Omar Sívori in 1961 and Gianni Rivera in 1969. Rossi was also the second Juventus player to win the trophy, after Sívori in 1961.[2]

Rankings[edit]

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Paolo Rossi Italy Juventus  Italy 115
2 Alain Giresse[notes 1] France Bordeaux  France 64
3 Zbigniew Boniek Italy Juventus  Poland 53
4 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge[notes 2] West Germany Bayern Munich  West Germany 51
5 Bruno Conti Italy Roma  Italy 48
6 Rinat Dasayev Soviet Union Spartak Moscow  Soviet Union 17
7 Pierre Littbarski West Germany 1. FC Köln  West Germany 10
8 Dino Zoff Italy Juventus  Italy 9
9 Michel Platini Italy Juventus  France 5
10 Bernd Schuster Spain Barcelona  West Germany 4
11 Giancarlo Antognoni Italy Fiorentina  Italy 3
12 Bruno Pezzey West Germany Eintracht Frankfurt  Austria 2
Gaetano Scirea Italy Juventus  Italy 2
Eric Gerets Belgium Standard Liège  Belgium 2
15 Paul Breitner West Germany Bayern Munich  West Germany 1
Torbjörn Nilsson Sweden IFK Göteborg  Sweden 1
Walter Schachner Italy Cesena  Austria 1
Marco Tardelli Italy Juventus  Italy 1
Marius Trésor France Bordeaux  France 1

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ France Football reports Giresse with 68 points.
  2. ^ France Football reports Rummenigge with 47 points.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pierrend, José Luis (7 Apr 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1982". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 18 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.

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