The 100 - Ten Years On

Last week, following IBWM's process of reviewing Don Balon's 100 best young players list, I posted up a similar list compiled by World Soccer in 2001. I thought it would also be useful to post the original list that Don Balon compiled that year as well, to see just how accurate their predictions of greatness were. As with World Soccer, some have more than delivered on heir early promise while others have failed to fulfill their huge potential. The list was taken from here and I have simply alphabetised it and provided the relevant nationalities in order to make it easier to cross reference the two.

Hassan Ahamada – France

Tuomas Aho – Finland

Serhat Akin - Turkey

Jeremie Aliadiere - France

Dean Ashton - England

Benjamin Auer – Germany

Milan Baros – Czech Republic

Gareth Barry – England

Dimitar Berbatov - Bulgaria

Derek Boateng - Ghana

Leandro Bonfim – Brazil

Matteo Brighi - Italy

Ramon Calliste – Wales

Daniyel Cimen – Germany

Michael Chopra - England

Djibril Cisse - France

Fabricio Coloccini - Argentina

Julio Colombo – France

Candido Costa – Portugal

Ricardo Costa- Portugal

Lourenco Da Silva - Portugal

Andres D'Allesandro – Argentina

Jermaine Defoe - England

Baldo Di Gregorio – Germany

Diego – Brazil

Bojan Djordjic - Sweden

Massimo Donati – Italy

Landon Donovan - USA

Emilliano Dudar – Argentina

Ednilson – Guinea-Bissau

Michael Essien - Ghana

Ewerthon - Brazil

Darren Fletcher – Scotland

Mark Fotheringham - Scotland

Gael Givet – France

Labinot Harbuzi - Sweden

Johnny Heitinga – Holland

Andreas Hinkel - Germany

Alexander Hleb - Belarus

Thijs Houwing - Holland

Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Sweden

Andres Iniesta – Spain

Marat Izmailov - Russia

Theo Janssen - Holland

Aldo Jara – Paraguay

Dulee Johnson – Liberia

Eddie Johnson - USA

Kaka - Brazil

Kim Kallstrom – Sweden

Azar Karadas - Norway

Keith Kelly - Jamaica

Erdal Kilicaslan - Germany

Chris Kirkland – England

Niko Kranjcar – Croatia

Anthony Le Tallec – France

Francesco Lodi - Italy

Jay Lucas - Australia

Alexander Ludwig - Germany

Maicon – Brazil

Shaun Maloney – Scotland

Carlos Martins - Portugal

Pedro Mantorras - Angola

Mourad Meghni – Algeria

Juan Andreu Melli - Spain

Philippe Mexes – France

Ahmed 'Mido' Hossam – Egypt

Johnnier Montano – Colombia

Fernando Macedo “Nano” - Spain

Marius Niculae - Romania

David Odonkor – Germany

Andreas Oliveira - Australia

Jermaine Pennant – England

Christian Petereit - Germany

Helder Postiga – Portugal

Christoph Preuss – Germany

David Prutton - England

Santino Quaranta - USA

Ricardo Quaresma – Portugal

Gatti Ribeiro – Bolivia

Kieran Richardson – England

Arjen Robben – Holland

Leandro Romagnoli – Argentina

Mauro Rosales - Argentina

Rubinho - Brazil

Cherno Samba - Gambia

Joaquin Sanchez – Spain

Leonardo Santiago - Brazil

Florent Sinama-Pongolle –France

Francesco Tarantino - Spain

Fernando Torres - Spain

Piotr Trochowski – Germany

Filip Trojan – Czech Republic

Johnny Van Beukering - Holland

Rafael Van der Vaart – Holland

Mika Vayrynen - Finland

Hugo Viana - Portugal

Gregory Vignal – France

John Welsh - England

Hassan Yebda – Algeria

Michael Zepek - Germany