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| June 20, 2002 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 8, 1423 |
Maradona most popular
YOKOHAMA (Japan), June 19: Diego Maradona, Argentina’s 1986 World Cup hero, received most votes in FIFA’s internet poll of fans to select a World Cup dream team.
More than one-and-a-half million fans worldwide voted in the poll, conducted by the official FIFA website, FIFAworldcup.com, with Maradona receiving 111,035 votes.
Brazil’s Pele, who played for three World Cup-winning teams, won 107,539 votes and Zinedine Zidane, who scored twice for France in their 1998 triumph, came in third with 80,527.
Dream team (3-4-3):
Lev Yashin (Soviet Union); Paolo Maldini (Italy), Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany), Roberto Carlos (Brazil); Roberto Baggio (Italy), Zinedine Zidane (France), Michel Platini (France), Diego Maradona (Argentina); Romario (Brazil), Johan Cruyff (Netherlands), Pele (Brazil)—Reuters
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