The 2003 FIFA World Player of the Year award was won by Zinedine Zidane for a record-equalling third time.
Famous quotes containing the words world, player and/or year:
“The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.”
—Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936)
“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“The first year was like icing.
Then the cake started to show through.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)