
Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, Michel Platini ... and Caroline Hanlon. Isn't that the ultimate honour for a football fan, to share the same stage as the great names of football, as I was privileged to do at the World Player Gala ...

This year, FIFA used the occasion of the annual World Player gala to help launch the new International Football Hall of Champions, a project which has FIFA's official support. It produced an unprecedented array of talent past as well as present on ...

Votes have been counted from 128 national team coaches as the title of FIFA World Player of the Year 1997 will go to one of four players at a ceremony to be held at Disneyland Paris on Monday 12 January 1998.

The FIFA World Player Gala on Monday 12 January 1998 will be bigger than any of its six predecessors and, for the first time, will involve star players of the past as well as the present.