HOOFDDORP, Netherlands — No Lionel Messi and no Cristiano Ronaldo.
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The all-time soccer greats didn’t make the boys’s world crew of the 12 months organized by world gamers’ union FIFPRO on Monday.
The 37-year-old Messi, who performs for MLS aspect Inter Miami, and the 39-year-old Ronaldo, who performs for Al-Nassr within the Saudi Professional League, have been the one gamers not with European golf equipment voted onto a 26-man shortlist by FIFPRO final week.
This 12 months’s crew of the 12 months featured six gamers from file 15-time Champions League winner Actual Madrid and 4 from Premier League heavyweight Manchester Metropolis, with Liverpool’s standout heart half Virgil van Dijk the opposite participant chosen.
The World XI was voted for by skilled gamers from 70 international locations.
Metropolis’s Ederson is in purpose, with Madrid duo Dani Carvajal and Antonio Rüdiger partnering Van Dijk in protection.
A stellar midfield noticed Jude Bellingham and Toni Kroos picked alongside playmaker Kevin De Bruyne and Ballon d’Or winner Rodri from Metropolis.
Prolific Metropolis striker Erling Haaland is teamed up with Kylian Mbappé and his Madrid clubmate Vinicius Jr. in a star-studded assault.
It’s the first time since 2006 that Messi has not been chosen. Argentina’s World Cup winner and file eight-time Ballon d’Or winner holds the file after being voted into the crew 17 instances. Ronaldo has been chosen 15 instances however final appeared in 2021.
FIFPRO has invited the world’s skilled footballers to decide on their males’s crew since 2005 and the ladies’s crew since 2015. It’s the solely world soccer award determined solely by the gamers.
A record-breaking 7,000 ladies’s gamers voted.
Chelsea defender Lucy Bronze — previously with Barcelona — was chosen for a record-equalling seventh time to match Lyon and France defender Wendie Renard.
Two-time ladies’s Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatà is in midfield after serving to Barcelona win the Spanish league, the Spanish cup and the Champions League.
Brazilian veteran Marta, 38, returned for the primary time since 2021, whereas 24-year-old Zambia striker Barbra Banda grew to become the primary African lady to make the crew of the 12 months.
England’s Mary Earps was chosen as goalkeeper with Olga Carmona and Alex Greenwood additionally in protection.
Alexia Putellas joined countrywoman Bonmatà in an all-Barcelona midfield alongside England’s Keira Walsh.
The assault options Colombia’s Linda Caicedo and England’s Lauren James .
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