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The Guardian 100 Best Male Footballers in the World is a list of the current best male footballers published annually by the British newspaper The Guardian. From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World. It is decided by a panel of experts from several nations.
The Best FIFA Men's Player is an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, since 2016, to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. [1]
77 players were initially nominated on 28 November 2024. [23] Each position was based on players' performances during the period from 21 August 2023 to 10 August 2024. [24] Every registered FIFA.com user was allowed to participate in a public vote until 10 December 2024, the day after the 2024 FIFPRO World 11 was announced.
— U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) November 19, 2024 He later doubled the U.S. lead with a shot from the top of the box — which deflected past Jamaican keeper Andre Blake for an own goal.
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of December 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
Franz Beckenbauer, elected Best European Player for the 1956–1990 period. On 24 April 1990, before the 1990 FIFA World Cup, IFFHS gave out an award for the best European player taking into consideration players who were voted in the shortlist of the France Football's Ballon d'Or from 1956 until 1989. [40]
On 3 December, Mbappé was the inaugural winner of the Kopa Trophy, which is awarded by France Football to the best under-21 player in the world. [81] On 19 January 2019, Mbappé was one of two players (the other being Cavani) to score a hat-trick in a 9–0 win over Guingamp, breaking a record PSG had set the previous season. [82]
Messi is widely regarded as one of the two best players of his generation, alongside Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo. [261] He is also considered one of the greatest footballers in the history of the sport. [262] A prodigious talent as a teenager, Messi established himself among the world's best players before age 20. [263]