Estudiantes de La Plata’s “La Brujita” Juan Sebastian Veron has taken (Uruguay) El Pais’ South American Footballer of the Year for the second year running (while also taking the same award for the Copa Libertadores), beating out his closest rivals Edison Mendez and Humberto Suazo for the award by a margin of 45 votes.
Via Goal
Final standings:
109 votes: Juan Sebastián Verón
64 Edison Méndez
64 Humberto Suazo
52 Leandro Desábato
48 Claudio Bieler
45 Salvador Cabañas
45 Nicolás Lodeiro
43 Nicolás Otamendi
43 Miguel Pinto
42 Néicer Reasco
40 Gary Medel
35 Mauro Boselli
35 Guillermo Ochoa
28 Enrique Vera
25 Darío Conca
20 Santiago Silva
20 Aldo Bobadilla
19 Claudio Morel
18 Rolando Schiavi
17 Adriano
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Great player! talk about hating on Messi though! lol
and to think there were some serious rumors going around that he was gonna be coming to MLS a couple years back
I’m assuming that you have to be playing in South America to win the award ChrisC. Where is Riquelme in this convo?