Other absentees included Italy captain Giorgio Chiellini as well as France strikers Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappe.

Mendy, meanwhile, won FIFA’s Goalkeeper of the Year prize but didn’t make the cut either. The most notable absentees were Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah and Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.ĭespite finishing third in the Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year awards, Salah had no spot in the XI. Italy’s Euro 2020 winners Gianluigi Donnarumma, Leonardo Bonucci, and Jorginho also made the cut, as did Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante, Real Madrid’s David Alaba, Manchester City duo Kevin De Bruyne and Ruben Dias.

The duo first made the FIFPro Men’s World XI in 2007 and have never dropped out ever since.īayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski and Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland joined the pair to form a deadly attacking quadrant. Ronaldo and Messi unsurprisingly headline the line-up for a record-extending 15th consecutive time. There are no journalists, coaches or anyone else involved – only professional players can vote.įor the 2021 award, FIFA said almost 19,000 football players voted for the world’s best XI. So what’s so special about this one? It’s the only player award voted for exclusively by footballers. In what was a special night for Ronaldo, the forward also made the cut for FIFPro Men’s World XI for a record 15th consecutive year.Ĭristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have become the first players in history to make FIFA’s FIFPro Men’s World XI for 15 years in a row.

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