UEFA Jubilee Awards
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Template:Short description To celebrate the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)'s 50th anniversary in 2004, each of its member associations was asked by UEFA to choose one of its own players as the single most outstanding player of the past 50 years (1954–2003).
Award winners
The 52 players were known as the Golden Players. The list of players was released in November 2003, and they were recognized at UEFA's headquarters in Nyon. Players active at the time of announcement are marked by (*).
- Template:Flagicon Albania – Panajot Pano
- Template:Flagicon Andorra – Koldo*
- Template:Flagicon Armenia – Khoren Oganesian
- Template:Flagicon Austria – Herbert Prohaska
- Template:Flagicon Azerbaijan – Anatoliy Banishevskiy
- Template:Flagicon Belarus – Sergei Aleinikov
- Template:Flagicon Belgium – Paul Van Himst
- Template:Flagicon Bosnia and Herzegovina – Safet Sušić
- Template:Flagicon Bulgaria – Hristo Stoichkov
- Template:Flagicon Croatia – Davor Šuker
- Template:Flagicon Cyprus – Sotiris Kaiafas
- Template:Flagicon Czech Republic – Josef Masopust
- Template:Flagicon Denmark – Michael Laudrup
- Template:Flagicon England – Bobby Moore
- Template:Flagicon Estonia – Mart Poom*
- Template:Flagicon Faroe Islands – Abraham Løkin
- Template:Flagicon Finland – Jari Litmanen*
- Template:Flagicon France – Just Fontaine
- Template:Flagicon North Macedonia – Darko Pančev
- Template:Flagicon Georgia – Murtaz Khurtsilava
- Template:Flagicon Germany – Fritz Walter
- Template:Flagicon Greece – Vasilis Hatzipanagis
- Template:Flagicon Hungary – Ferenc Puskás
- Template:Flagicon Iceland – Ásgeir Sigurvinsson
- Template:Flagicon Republic of Ireland – Johnny Giles
- Template:Flagicon Israel – Mordechai Spiegler
- Template:Flagicon Italy – Dino Zoff
- Template:Flagicon Kazakhstan – Sergey Kvochkin<ref name="note">In the press release on 29 November 2003, Sergey Kvochkin and Pat Jennings were listed as the Golden Players of Kazakhstan and Northern Ireland respectively [1]. However, in the player profiles posted by UEFA.com in 2004, Evgeni Jarovenko [2]Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore and George Best [3] were listed instead. The reasons for the discrepancies are not clear.</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Latvia – Aleksandrs Starkovs
- Template:Flagicon Liechtenstein – Rainer Hasler
- Template:Flagicon Lithuania – Arminas Narbekovas*
- Template:Flagicon Luxembourg – Louis Pilot
- Template:Flagicon Malta – Carmel Busuttil
- Template:Flagicon Moldova – Pavel Cebanu
- Template:Flagicon Netherlands – Johan Cruyff
- Template:Flagicon Northern Ireland – George Best<ref name="note" />
- Template:Flagicon Norway – Rune Bratseth
- Template:Flagicon Poland – Włodzimierz Lubański
- Template:Flagicon Portugal – Eusébio
- Template:Flagicon Romania – Gheorghe Hagi
- Template:Flagicon Russia – Lev Yashin
- Template:Flagicon San Marino – Massimo Bonini
- Template:Flagicon Scotland – Denis Law
- Template:Flagicon Serbia and Montenegro – Dragan Džajić
- Template:Flagicon Slovakia – Ján Popluhár
- Template:Flagicon Slovenia – Branko Oblak
- Template:Flagicon Spain – Alfredo di Stéfano
- Template:Flagicon Sweden – Henrik Larsson*
- Template:Flagicon Switzerland – Stéphane Chapuisat*
- Template:Flagicon Turkey – Hakan Şükür*
- Template:Flagicon Ukraine – Oleg Blokhin
- Template:Flagicon Wales – John Charles
References
External links
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