Dear futsal friends,

as announced we're ready to celebrate the first category winner of the UMBRO Futsal Awards 2007 by Futsalplanet.com. This award has a special meaning, as it's dedicated to the memory of a great friend of us: Dimitri Nicolaou. We're talking about the Best National Team Coach of the World category, which since this edition and for the future ones will be known as Dimitri Nicolaou Award. Before the end of the summer we will announce candidates list and winners of the other UMBRO Futsal Awards 2007 categories, stay tuned!

So, who's the winner? Who's the Best National Team Coach of the World? It was maybe not hard to guess, but the Euro 2007 triumph in his first official challenge was probably the key for the Josè Venancio Lopez Hierro clear victory of the Dimitri Nicolaou Award 2007! The former Lobelle De Santiago's coach claimed the annual prize overcoming the strong competition of his former colleague on the Iberian bench Javier Lozano Cid. The 100% winning trainer of the Canarinhos, Paulo Cesar De Oliveira "PC" got the bronze medal at the end of a great year. Below have a look at the complete standing!

UMBRO Futsal Awards 2007 by Futsalplanet.com

Dimitri Nicolaou Award 2007!

Final Standing

score - Coach Name - (National team/Coach country)
157 pts - Josè Venancio Lopez Hierro (Spain/ESP)
103 pts - Javier Lozano (Spain/ESP)
077 pts - Paulo Cesar De Oliveira "PC" (Brazil/BRA)
066 pts - Orlando Duarte (Portugal/POR)
048 pts - Alessandro Nuccorini (Italy/ITA)
022 pts - Oleg Ivanov (Russia/RUS)
016 pts - Aca Kovacevic (Serbia/SRB)
015 pts - Fernando Larranaga (Argentina/ARG)
015 pts - Hossein Shams (Iran/IRN)
011 pts - Hennadiy Lysenchuk (Ukraine/UKR)
009 pts - Mato Stankovic (Libya/CRO)
008 pts - Guilherme Carvalho "Farinha" (China/BRA)
006 pts - Rubio Guerra (Qatar/BRA)
006 pts - Francisco Carosini (Paraguay/PAR)
006 pts - Sergio Sapo (Japan/BRA)
005 pts - Mihaly Kozma (Hungary/HUN)
005 pts - Zoltan Jakab (Romania/ROU)
005 pts - Andrej Dobovicnik (Slovenia/SVN)
003 pts - Keith Tozer (USA/USA)
003 pts - Nurtazin Djetybaev (Kyrgyzstan/KYR)
003 pts - Benny Meurs (Belgium/BEL)
002 pts - Pattaya Piemkum (Thailand/THA)
001 pts - Marcos Aurelio Sorato “Pipoca” (Brazil Women/BRA)
001 pts - Daniel Darino (Uruguay/URU)
001 pts - Tomas Neumann (Czech Republic/CZE)





Who vote for who?

1st choice: 5 points
2nd choice: 3 points
3rd chouce: 1 point

Votes not accepted:
- incomplete indications
- names not included in the candidates list
- votes got from national team coaches included in the candidates list

Vicente DE LUISE (Venancio - Pc - Duarte)
Christian PREVOST (PC - Lozano - Guerra)
Egidijus CIVILKA (Lozano - Pc - Nuccorini)
Ricardo MENEZES (Duarte - Shams - Ivanov)
Steve TORRES (Venancio - Lozano - Pc)
Bobo MOUHAMADOU (Shams - Lozano - Stankovic)
Vlastimil BARTOSEK (Duarte - Larranaga - Venancio)
Sergey CHAJKA (Lozano - Duarte - Kovacevic)
Mico MARTIC (Venancio - Pc - Duarte)
Schorpion DIRK (Venancio - Tozer - Pc)
Steve HARRIS (Venancio - Lysenchuk - Piemkum)
Petros CONSTANTINOU (Lozano - Nuccorini - Venancio)
Michela NAIM (Venancio - Nuccorini - Ivanov)
Sergey KOZLOV (Venancio - Nuccorini - Kovacevic)
Dusan RAZBORSEK (Lozano - Duarte - Nuccorini)
Laurent MOREL (Kovacevic - Venancio - Duarte)
Borut PLANINSIC (Lozano - Nuccorini - Pc)
Elvin QULIYEV (Ivanov - Lozano - Nuccorini)
Alex DZABIRADZE (Lozano - Duarte - Pc)
Carlos Ruben ALEGRE NOGUEIRA (Larranaga - Venancio - Pc)
Fabrizio BOMBELLI (Venancio - Nuccorini - Pipoca)
Kenji TAMAKI (Venancio - Lozano - Duarte)
Laszlo OCZELLA (Kozma - Jakab - Pc)
Denis KOSOR (Stankovic - Venancio - Nuccorini)
Abbas TORABIAN (Venancio - Pc - Shams)
Pedro DIAS (Duarte - Venancio - Ivanov)
Jesus CANDELAS (Lozano - Venancio - Pc)
Steve CHATILA (Venancio - Nuccorini - Duarte)
Stane KOKALJ (Pc - Nuccorini - Venancio)
Konstantin SERIKOV (Lysenchuk - Dyetibaev - Shams)
Cristian FEDELI (Larranaga - Lozano - Nuccorini)
George COTELEA (Lozano - Ivanov - Nuccorini)
David Santos (Duarte, Venancio, Ivanov)
Cesar ROBIDO (Lozano - Duarte - Darino)
Mario PIZZORNO (Lozano - Nuccorini - Larranaga)
Oscar GARCIA (Venancio - Pc - Jakab)
Ignacio VICENTE (Venancio - Pc - Larranaga)
Matti WILLGREN (Venancio - Pc - Nuccorini)
Roberto OSIMANI (Venancio - Nuccorini - Pc)
Mahdiar GHAFFARI (Venancio - Duarte - Pc)
Claudia MARQUES (Duarte - Lozano - Pc)
Filipa REIS (Guerra - Pc - Duarte)
Josep LINARES (Lozano - Venancio - Nuccorini)
Pauli OJALEHTO (Pc - Venancio - Ivanov)
Cristi VORNICU (Kovacevic - Duarte - Neumann)
Valeriu IONITA (Venancio - Nuccorini - Jakab)
Renato LOPES (Pc - Shams - Nuccorini)
Hugues TRAPPENIERS (Lozano - Stankovic - Shams)
Pedro CATITA (Duarte - Venancio - Ivanov)
Giannis ZIAVAS (Venancio - Ivanov - Duarte)
Massimo CUMBO (Duarte - Nuccorini - Venancio)
Antonio RAMOS (Venancio - Duarte - Pc)
Anton BILORO (Lozano - Nuccorini - Pc)
Piero GIALLI (Carosini - Ivanov - Lozano)
Gjergj VYSHKA (Dobovicnik - Venancio - Lozano)
Nikolai KBILADZE (Lozano - Lysenchuk - Ivanov)
Charles RONLEZ (Pc - Meurs - Piemkum)
Yannis MOSTRIOS (Venancio - Nuccorini - Duarte)
Asselam KHAN (Lozano - Pc - Carosini)
Manochehr NAZARI (PC - Farinha - Shams)
Patricio KNAUDT (Venancio - Pc - Duarte)
Alistair MILLER (Farinha - Sapo - Pc)
Robert VARELA (Venancio - Sapo - Ivanov)
Sebastian LAROCCA (Lozano - Venancio - Pc)
Luca RANOCCHIARI (Venancio - Pc - Kovacevic)
Danilo LEMMA (Venancio - Kovacevic - Duarte)