Sigh…if only this were true and not the result of a Spanish equivalent of an April Fool’s Day joke.
A Spanish newspaper claimed on Thursday that Zinedine Zidane should have been named as World Footballer of the Year and not Italian World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro after a voting blunder.
However, it was all an elaborate joke played by the Marca sports paper on the Day of the Innocents, Spain’s equivalent of April Fool’s Day.
Fifa, the sport’s world governing body, decided to take the story in good faith.
“Every country and region has its own time-honoured customs and traditions, many of them involving practical jokes. With the advent of the Internet, such traditions can also create quite some confusion,” said a Fifa statement.
“The Spanish sports paper Marca published a story on its website regarding the Fifa World Player. Marca alleged that Fifa had recounted the votes after admitting errors and would give the award to Zidane instead of Cannavaro. This story is, of course, completely invented and a joke.
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