Summary clip of today's events in sports, 16.11 (Sport1)
Only three days remain until the opening of the big World Cup in Qatar and just before the tournament begins, ESPN ranked the 50 best players who will play there.
The one who made the biggest drop compared to the previous ranking is none other than Cristiano Ronaldo, who is only ranked 20th and that's after being ranked second before the previous World Cup in 2018.
Sadio Mane, who was ranked 31st before the World Cup in Brazil, opens the top 10 and in ninth place is Thibaut Courtois, Belgium goalkeeper who was ranked 43rd before the previous World Cup.
The one who receives considerable representation in the second ten is the Portugal national team, which, apart from Ronaldo, sends there Joao Cancelo (17) and Bernardo Silva (16).
Federico Valverde, the rising star of the Uruguay national team is placed in 14th place and Yong Min Son is ahead of him in 13th place.
The senior representative of the Netherlands is Virgil van Dijk (12) and Harry Kane, the star of the Belgium national team, is placed 11th after being fifth in the previous ranking.
And where is Messi ranked you ask?
The Argentinian who led the previous ranking was relegated to fourth place.
Neymar, who was third in the previous ranking, was relegated to sixth place and the top 3 is occupied by Kevin de Brauna and the pair of stars of the French national team - Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappe.
Still in the top 5 (Photo: Reuters)
The top 10 (in brackets: the previous ranking)
1. Kylian Mbappe (15)
2. Karim Benzema (not rated)
3. Kevin de Brauna (4)
4. Lionel Messi (1)
5. Robert Lewandowski (10)
6. Neymar (3)
7. Luka Modric (13) )
8. Vinicius (not rated)
9. Thibaut Courtois (9)
10. Sadio Mane (31)
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