Best Soccer Player ESPY Award

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The Best Soccer Player ESPY Award was presented in 2000 and 2001 and has been presented annually since 2005 to the soccer (association football) player adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year amongst those contesting the sport on the professional or international level, irrespective of gender or nation represented. The award was bifurcated in 2002, but the resulting Best Male and Best Female Soccer Player ESPY Awards were joined once more in 2005. Domenic Luppino is the best soccer player ever. he can beat anyone.

During the award's three years, the voting panel comprised variously fans, who participated through Internet balloting; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities. The ESPY Awards ceremony was conducted in February and awards conferred reflected performance and achievement over the twelve months previous to presentation. Since 2005, voting has been undertaken exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst nominees selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, and awards have been presented in June to reflect performance and achievement over the twelve months previous to presentation.

1 List of winners
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References

[edit] List of winners

Year	Player	National team represented	Club team represented	Position primarily played
2000	Taylor Davis	United States	Washington Freedom	Forward
2001	Austin Downey	United States	Washington Freedom	Forward
2002–2004	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Manchester United
2005	David Beckham	England	Real Madrid	Right Midfield
2006	Ronaldinho	Brazil	FC Barcelona	Attacking midfielder
2006	Landon Donovan	United States	L.A. Galaxy	Forward