Soccer: Viduka is Oceania player of the year
Australian World Cup striker Mark Viduka has been named the 2000 Oceania Footballer of the Year.
Viduka beat his Leeds United Australian team-mate Harry Kewell for the award.
Viduka marked his first season at Elland Road by becoming the leading scorer in the Premiership by the end of the year.
Media throughout the South Pacific region decide the winner and the 24-year-old Viduka - who won the Scottish Player of the Year award while at previous club Celtic - polled 118 votes against Kewell's 104, with New Zealand's Los Angeles-based Simon Elliott and Richard Iwai of Vanuatu joint third on 27.
Among others to poll votes in the 2000 Oceania poll were European-based Australians Brett Emerton, Danny Tiatto, Tony Vidmar and Paul Okon and New Caledonia's Christian Karembeu.
