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10 June 2024

The ultimate 40 names on the Golazo 100 are a celebration of one of the best of one of the best in males’s soccer, and the ultimate batch characterize a large cross-section of the sport’s present elite groups and nations as a lot because the gamers.

Whereas all however two gamers play in Europe’s high 5 leagues, the group hails from 16 golf equipment and 18 nations throughout 4 continents. It also needs to come as no shock that the highest 40 gamers on the Golazo 100 make up a really distinguished group — a big chunk of them received the title of their home leagues in the course of the 2023-24 season, whereas a large variety of UEFA Champions League winners and a handful of World Cup champions made the lower.

Earlier than the ultimate 40 names are revealed over the course of the following few days, with 40-21 approaching Monday on Golazo Community’s Morning Footy and CBSSports.com, this is a breakdown of the highest-ranking gamers by membership, nation and accomplishments.

Golazo 100 schedule

You’ll want to tune into Golazo Community, together with Morning Footy to begin your day with a breakdown of every batch of high gamers launched day by day. And, in fact, be certain that to take a look at the complete breakdown and evaluation of who was ranked the place and why

Attackers take cost

It comes as little shock that attack-minded gamers make up an enormous share of the highest 40, with 9 strikers and eight wingers taking over the highest spots. There was fairly a bit of affection for central midfielders and attacking midfielders, 15 of whom additionally rank inside the high 40. The remainder of the highest 40 consists of 4 heart backs, two goalkeepers and two defensive midfielders.

2 goalkeepers
4 heart backs
2 defensive midfielders
15 central midfielders
9 strikers
8 wingers

Premier League reigns supreme

Whereas all however two gamers play exterior of Europe’s high 5 leagues, one home championship ranked above the remainder — the Premier League. Seventeen of the highest 40 hail from six groups in England’s high flight, whereas 10 gamers from three groups hail from La Liga. Serie A and the Bundesliga every had 5 gamers, with three Italian golf equipment represented and two German golf equipment within the combine. Ligue 1, MLS and the Saudi Professional League every had one participant who performed of their leagues final season — and it in all probability is just not arduous to guess who they’re, however we can’t spoil it for you.

17 Premier League gamers
10 La Liga gamers
5 Serie A gamers
5 Bundesliga gamers
1 Ligue 1 participant
1 MLS participant
1 Saudi Professional League participant

Manchester Metropolis, Actual Madrid on high

Manchester Metropolis and Actual Madrid, the final two winners of the Champions League, are basically neck-and-neck on the subject of accumulating the world’s greatest expertise and that is the case with the highest 40 on the Golazo 100. Every staff has seven gamers within the high 40 after profitable their home titles, whereas Inter and Arsenal have 4 every. Three gamers every characterize Liverpool and Bayern Munich, whereas two gamers every play for Bayer Leverkusen and Barcelona. Eight different golf equipment throughout six nations have one participant every within the high 40.

7 Actual Madrid gamers
7 Manchester Metropolis gamers
4 Inter gamers
4 Arsenal gamers
3 Liverpool gamers
3 Bayern Munich gamers
2 Bayer Leverkusen gamers
2 Barcelona gamers
1 Paris Saint-Germain participant
1 Tottenham Hotspur participant
1 Chelsea participant
1 Manchester United participant
1 Atletico Madrid participant
1 Napoli participant
1 Inter Miami participant
1 Al-Nassr participant

England and Germany’s stacked squads

A lot of the high 40 gamers might be on the Euros and the Copa America this summer season, with two nationwide groups accounting for 12 gamers — England and Germany, who every have six. Portugal are proper behind them with 5 gamers within the high 40, whereas Brazil will take 4 to the Copa America. France is represented thrice within the high 40 Argentina, Spain and Norway every have two gamers and 10 nations have one participant every.

6 England gamers
6 Germany gamers
5 Portugal gamers
4 Brazil gamers
3 France gamers
2 Argentina gamers
2 Spain gamers
2 Norway gamers
1 Belgium participant
1 Egypt participant
1 Netherlands participant
1 South Korea participant
1 Poland participant
1 Nigeria participant
1 Uruguay participant
1 Italy participant
1 Turkey participant
1 Croatia participant

Profitable mentality

Half of the highest 40 cracked the highest portion of the listing on the again of profitable their home titles, whereas 22 of them have Champions League winners’ medals. A small portion of them have additionally loved success on the worldwide stage — 4 gamers have received the World Cup and 4 gamers have additionally received their continental championship. Three Ballon d’Or winners additionally cracked the highest 40.