Best Soccer Player ESPY Award
The Best Soccer Player ESPY Award, is an annual award honoring the achievements of an individual from the world of
soccers
. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2000. The awards discontinued in (2002-2005, 2007-2022) but was awarded again in 2023.
List of winners
| Year | Player | National team represented |
Club team represented |
Position played primarily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Mia Hamm |  United States
|
None | Forward
|
| 2001 | Mia Hamm | United States
|
Washington Freedom
|
Forward
|
| 2002–2004 | Not awarded | |||
| 2005 | Mia Hamm | United States
|
None | Forward
|
| 2006 | Ronaldinho |  Brazil
|
FC Barcelona | Forward
|
| 2023 | Lionel Messi |  Argentina
|
Paris Saint-Germain
|
Forward
|
See also
- Landon Donovan MVP Award (Major League Soccer MVP Award)
- FIFA World Player of the Year
- FIFA Women's World Cup awards
- FIFA World Cup awards
- African Footballer of the Year
- Asian Footballer of the Year
- European Footballer of the Year
- Oceania Footballer of the Year
- South American Footballer of the Year
References
External links
- Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2002-02-23)