FIFA World Cup Awards - All-Star Team

The All-Star Team, until 2006 named after sponsor MasterCard All-Star Team (in 2010,Yingli sponsored the award), is a team of players from the World Cup Finals, chosen up to 2006 by FIFA's technical study group, and in 2010 by an online poll on the FIFA.com website.
The number of players was expanded from 11 to 16 at the 1998 finals, and then to 23 in 2006, but returned to 11 in 2010 (which saw the selection of a coach, Vicente del Bosque). Before 1998, journalists and experts chose a "Dream Team" with outstanding players from each playing position. The teams were chosen mostly by European and South American journalists.

World Cup	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards	Managers
1930 Uruguay	Enrique Ballesteros	José Nasazzi Milutin Ivković	Luis Monti Álvaro Gestido José Andrade	Pedro Cea Héctor Castro Héctor Scarone Guillermo Stábile Bert Patenaude	N/A
1934 Italy	Ricardo Zamora	Jacinto Quincoces Eraldo Monzeglio	Luis Monti Attilio Ferraris Leonardo Cilaurren	Giuseppe Meazza Raimundo Orsi Enrique Guaita Matthias Sindelar Oldřich Nejedlý
1938 France	František Plánička	Pietro Rava Alfredo Foni Domingos da Guia	Michele Andreolo Ugo Locatelli	Silvio Piola Gino Colaussi György Sárosi Gyula Zsengellér Leônidas
1950 Brazil	Roque Máspoli	Erik Nilsson José Parra Víctor Rodríguez Andrade	Obdulio Varela Bauer Alcides Ghiggia Jair	Zizinho Ademir Juan Alberto Schiaffino
1954 Switzerland	Gyula Grosics	Ernst Ocwirk Djalma Santos José Santamaría	Fritz Walter József Bozsik Nándor Hidegkuti Zoltan Czibor	Helmut Rahn Ferenc Puskás Sándor Kocsis
1958 Sweden	Harry Gregg	Djalma Santos Bellini Nílton Santos	Danny Blanchflower Didi Gunnar Gren Raymond Kopa	Pelé Garrincha Just Fontaine
1962 Chile	Viliam Schrojf	Djalma Santos Cesare Maldini Valeriy Voronin Karl-Heinz Schnellinger	Zagallo Zito Josef Masopust	Vavá Garrincha Leonel Sánchez
1966 England	Gordon Banks	George Cohen Bobby Moore Vicente Silvio Marzolini	Franz Beckenbauer Mário Coluna Bobby Charlton	Florian Albert Uwe Seeler Eusébio
1970 Mexico	Ladislao Mazurkiewicz	Carlos Alberto Atilio Ancheta Franz Beckenbauer Giacinto Facchetti	Gérson Roberto Rivellino Bobby Charlton	Pelé Gerd Müller Jairzinho
1974 West Germany	Sepp Maier	Berti Vogts Ruud Krol Franz Beckenbauer Paul Breitner Elías Figueroa	Wolfgang Overath Kazimierz Deyna Johan Neeskens	Rob Rensenbrink Johan Cruyff Grzegorz Lato
1978 Argentina	Ubaldo Fillol	Berti Vogts Ruud Krol Daniel Passarella Alberto Tarantini	Dirceu Teófilo Cubillas Rob Rensenbrink	Roberto Bettega Paolo Rossi Mario Kempes
1982 Spain	Dino Zoff	Luizinho Júnior Claudio Gentile Fulvio Collovati	Zbigniew Boniek Falcão Michel Platini Zico	Paolo Rossi Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1986 Mexico	Jean-Marie Pfaff	Josimar Manuel Amoros Júlio César	Jan Ceulemans Jean Tigana Michel Platini Diego Maradona	Preben Elkjær Larsen Emilio Butragueño Gary Lineker
1990 Italy	Sergio Goycochea Luis Gabelo Conejo	Andreas Brehme Paolo Maldini Franco Baresi	Diego Maradona Lothar Matthäus Dragan Stojkovic Paul Gascoigne	Salvatore Schillaci Roger Milla Jürgen Klinsmann
1994 United States	Michel Preud'homme	Jorginho Márcio Santos Paolo Maldini	Dunga Krasimir Balakov Gheorghe Hagi Tomas Brolin	Romário Hristo Stoichkov Roberto Baggio
1998 France	Fabien Barthez José Luis Chilavert	Roberto Carlos Marcel Desailly Lilian Thuram Frank de Boer Carlos Gamarra	Dunga Rivaldo Michael Laudrup Zinedine Zidane Edgar Davids	Ronaldo Davor Šuker Brian Laudrup Dennis Bergkamp
2002 Korea/Japan	Oliver Kahn Rüştü Reçber	Roberto Carlos Sol Campbell Fernando Hierro Hong Myung-Bo Alpay Özalan	Rivaldo Ronaldinho Michael Ballack Claudio Reyna Yoo Sang-Chul	Ronaldo Miroslav Klose El Hadji Diouf Hasan Şaş
2006 Germany	Gianluigi Buffon Jens Lehmann Ricardo	Roberto Ayala John Terry Lilian Thuram Philipp Lahm Fabio Cannavaro Gianluca Zambrotta Ricardo Carvalho	Zé Roberto Patrick Vieira Zinedine Zidane Michael Ballack Andrea Pirlo Gennaro Gattuso Luís Figo Maniche	Hernán Crespo Thierry Henry Miroslav Klose Luca Toni Francesco Totti
2010 South Africa	Iker Casillas	Philipp Lahm Sergio Ramos Carles Puyol Maicon	Andrés Iniesta Bastian Schweinsteiger Wesley Sneijder Xavi	David Villa Diego Forlán	Vicente del Bosque

Only two players have been named in three separate All-Star teams: Franz Beckenbauer of West Germany, who was included in 1966, 1970, and 1974, Djalma Santos in 1954, 1958 and 1962. 21 others have been named to two separate All-Star teams: Luis Monti (1930 and 1934; however, in 1930, he was representing Argentina while in 1934 he represented Italy); Garrincha (1958 and 1962); Pelé (1958 and 1970); Bobby Charlton (1966 and 1970); Ruud Krol and Rob Rensenbrink (1974 and 1978); Berti Vogts (1974 and 1978); Paolo Rossi (1978 and 1982); Michel Platini (1982 and 1986); Diego Maradona (1986 and 1990); Paolo Maldini (1990 and 1994); Dunga (1994 and 1998); Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, and Ronaldo (1998 and 2002); Lilian Thuram and Zinedine Zidane (1998 and 2006); Michael Ballack and Miroslav Klose (2002 and 2006); and Philipp Lahm (2006 and 2010).

Pelé is the only player to be named in All-Star teams 12 years apart (1958 and 1970).

Uruguay in 1930 and 1950, Italy and Germany in 2006 and Spain in 2010 are the only teams to have had a player in every position on the All-Star Team.

Uruguay in 1930 and Italy in 2006 have the most players elected to the All-Star Team with 7 players each. However, the 1930 selection only had 11 players overall, while the 2006 selection had 23.

35 different Brazilian players were named in All-Star teams, Brazil is also the nation with most nominations with 43 nominees.

Only two Asian players have been named in All-Star teams, Hong Myung-Bo and Yoo Sang-Chul of South Korea. Both were selected in 2002.

Only one player on the victorious 1986 Argentina team, Diego Maradona, was selected to that year's All-Star team.

Uniquely, brothers Brian Laudrup and Michael Laudrup were both selected for the All Star Team from Denmark in 1998 FIFA World Cup.

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