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The RSSSF, or Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. It was founded in January 1994 by three Usenet regulars: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans.
The RSSSF website contains football-related statistics in the form of lists without commentary, maintained by volunteer contributors. It is considered one of the most complete publicly available statistical football databases in the world.
The RSSSF has seven spin-off projects dedicated to Albania, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Romania, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Egypt. In November 2002, the Polish service 90minut.pl became the official branch of RSSSF Poland.
Ronaldo won the Rec.Sport.Soccer Player of the Year Award three times, in 1996, 1997, and 2002. Ronaldinho won it twice, in 2004 and 2005.
Brazil's Ronaldinho was the last winner of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Player of the Year Award, taking the honour in 2005 when the award was discontinued.
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Player of the Year Award was first presented in 1992 and was discontinued after the 2005 edition, running for fourteen years in total.