Bidone d'oro

Bidone d'Oro, Italian for the "Golden Bin" or "Golden Trashcan", was a tongue-in-cheek prize given to the most disappointing player in Serie A at the end of each calendar year. A play on Ballon d'Or, the European Footballer of the Year award,^[1] the winner was chosen through votes by listeners of the Catersport show on Rai Radio 2.^[2] The prize was first awarded in 2003 to Rivaldo of Milan,^[3] and was discontinued in 2012 when Catersport went off the air. The final Bidone d'Oro was awarded at the end of 2012 to Alexandre Pato following a vote on the discontinued show's Facebook page.^[4]

Winners

Year	1st	Club	2nd	Club	3rd	Club
2003	Rivaldo	AC Milan	Al-Saadi Gaddafi	Perugia	Carsten Jancker	Udinese
2004	Nicola Legrottaglie	Juventus	Christian Vieri	Internazionale	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus
2005	Christian Vieri	Internazionale AC Milan	Santiago Solari	Internazionale	Antonio Cassano	AS Roma
2006	Adriano	Internazionale	Alberto Gilardino	AC Milan	Ricardo Oliveira	AC Milan
2007	Adriano	Internazionale	Dida	AC Milan	Ronaldo	AC Milan
2008	Ricardo Quaresma	Internazionale	Christian Vieri	Fiorentina	Adriano	Internazionale
2009	Felipe Melo	Fiorentina Juventus	Ricardo Quaresma	Internazionale	Tiago Mendes	Juventus
2010	Adriano	AS Roma	Amauri	Juventus	Ronaldinho	AC Milan
2011	Diego Milito	Internazionale	Amauri	Juventus	Miloš Krasić	Juventus
2012	Alexandre Pato	AC Milan	Nicklas Bendtner	Juventus	Lúcio	Internazionale Juventus

References

1. Raynor, Dominic (12 December 2008). "THE WEEK THAT WAS – Rafa writes off Reds, Ronaldo a 'traitor'". Soccernet.
2. "Quaresma voted Serie A's worst player". Reuters. 8 December 2008.
3. "Vieri voted Serie A's worst player". Rediff.com. 6 December 2005.
4. Viatali, Cristian (30 December 2012). "Il Calciobidone 2013 (e i suoi fratelli flop)" [Calciobidone (and its brother Flop)]. Fantagazzetta.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-03-06.

External links

• Radio 2: Bidone d'Oro at the Wayback Machine (archived December 18, 2014)