The Brazilian Roberto Carlos, is the winner of the 2008 Golden Foot award, the international career award dedicated to the greatest champions of world football.
The fans of the left back, currently plying his trade at Fenerbahce, backed their favourite heavily giving him a total of 38,384 votes, compared with 18,150 votes for Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and 12,742 votes for AS Roma captain Francesco Totti.
The total votes collected on the website www.goldenfoot.com were 105,589, coming from all over the world. Roberto Carlos follows on from last year’s winner Alessandro Del Piero. Roberto Carlos who, in a stellar career, was a World Cup winner with Brazil in 2002 and winner of 3 Champions League titles, 2 Intercontinental cups and 4 Spanish Liga titles with Real Madrid, received the Golden Foot Award from HSH the Prince Albert of Monaco, who gave his High Patronage to the event.
In addition to the main award, the contributions of Zinedine Zidane, Luis Suarez, Igor Belanov and Aldair were also recognised as they were inducted as Golden Foot Legends of the Game.
The total votes collected on the website www.goldenfoot.com were 105,589, coming from all over the world. Roberto Carlos follows on from last year’s winner Alessandro Del Piero. Roberto Carlos who, in a stellar career, was a World Cup winner with Brazil in 2002 and winner of 3 Champions League titles, 2 Intercontinental cups and 4 Spanish Liga titles with Real Madrid, received the Golden Foot Award from HSH the Prince Albert of Monaco, who gave his High Patronage to the event.
In addition to the main award, the contributions of Zinedine Zidane, Luis Suarez, Igor Belanov and Aldair were also recognised as they were inducted as Golden Foot Legends of the Game.
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