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FIFA Fair Play Award
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FIFA FAIR PLAY AWARD
This is an award given by FIFA to players who did fair play in their games or were involved in a specific incident of fair play or the spectators were given for their good behaviour for a long period of time or fighting against racism.
Paolo Di Canio was awarded this prize as he shunned a goal scoring opportunity and caught the ball while the Everton goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was lying injured on the ground. FIFA described the act as "a special act of good sportsmanship."
Winners
1987 Fans of Dundee United FC
1988 Frank Ordenewitz(GER) and spectators of the Olympic football tournament Seoul 1988
1989 Spectators of Trinidad and Tobago
1990 Gary Lineker(ENG)
1991 Real Federación Española de fútbol (Spanish FA) and Jorginho(BRA)
1992 Union Royale Belge des sociétés de football association
1993 Nándor Hidegkuti(HUN) and The football association of Zambia
1994 -
1995 Jacques Glassman(FRA)
1996 George Weah(LBR)
1997 Irish spectators during the World Cup preliminary match versus Belgium ,Joseph Zovinec(Slovak amateur player) and Julie Foudy(USA)
1998 The national associatons of USA, Iran and Northern Ireland
1999 New Zealand's football community
2000 Lucas Radebe(RSA)
2001 Paolo Di Canio
2002 Football communities of Japan and Korea Republic
2003 Fans of Celtic FC
2004 Confederação Brasileira de Futebol
2005 Community of Iquitos, Peru
2006 Fans of the 2006 World Cup
Reference for award winners: http://www.fifa.com/infoplus/IP-590_01E_allawards.pdf