Il Guardian ha stilato in questi giorni la top 100 dei calciatori al mondo. In testa (ovviamente) ci sono Messi e Ronaldo, seguiti da Neymar.

ECCO LA LISTA

Tra questi, ci sono ben 17 under 23. Da Mbappé a Pulisic. Da Dele Alli ad Asensio, la nuova guardia sta prendendo sempre più confidenza con i palcoscenici più raffinati del calcio mondiale.

1. Lionel Messi (Barça)

2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

3. Neymar Jr (Barça/PSG)

4. Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City)

5. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)

6. Luka Modric (Real Madrid)

7. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern)

8. Kylian Mbappé (AS Mónaco/PSG) 1998

9. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)

10. Eden Hazard (Chelsea)

11. Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)

12. Isco (Real Madrid)

13. Edinson Cavani (PSG)

14. Paulo Dybala (Juventus)

15. Luis Suárez (Barça)

16. Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)

17. N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea)

18. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid)

19. Marcelo (Real Madrid)

20. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City)

21. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund)

22. Mohamed Salah (Roma/Liverpool)

23. David de Gea (Manchester United)

24. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool)

25. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur)

26. Dani Alves (Juventus/PSG)

27. Dries Mertens (Napoli)

28. Casemiro (Real Madrid)

29. Andrés Iniesta (Barça)

30. Paul Pogba (Manchester United)

31. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) 1996

32. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal)

33. Mauro Icardi (Inter de Milan)

34. Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus)

35. Jan Oblak (Atlético)

36. Sadio Mané (Liverpool)

37. Romelu Lukaku (Everton/Manchester United)

38. David Silva (Manchester City)

39. Gabriel Jesús (Manchester City) 1997

40. Manuel Neuer (FC Bayern)

41. Radamel Falcao (AS Mónaco)

42. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) 1996

43. Edin Dzeko (Roma)

44. Lorenzo Insigne (Nàpoles)

45. Leonardo Bonucci (Milan)

46. Sergio Busquets (Barça)

47. Álvaro Morata (Chelsea)

48. Marco Verratti (PSG)

49. Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern)

50. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid)

51 Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)

52. César Azpilicueta (Chelsea)

53. Naby Keïta (RB Leipzig) 1995

54. Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) 1996

55. Marc-André ter Stegen (Barça)

56. Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus)

57. Ivan Rakitic (Barça)

58. Gerard Piqué (Barça)

59. Ousmane Dembélé (Borussia Dortmund/Barça) 1997

60. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United)

61. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) 1996

62. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 1994

63. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid)

64. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern) 1995

65. Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea)

66. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern)

67. Mesut Özil (Arsenal)

68. Diego Costa (Chelsea/Atlético de Madrid)

69. Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig)

70. Mats Hummels (FC Bayern)

71. Ciro Immobile (Lazio)

72. Radja Nainggolan (Roma)

73. Samuel Umtiti (Barça)

74. Nemanja Matic (Manchester United)

75. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) 1997

76. Thiago Silva (PSG)

77. Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund) 1998

78. Keylor Navas (Real Madrid)

79. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern)

80. Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid) 1994

81. Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur)

82. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur)

83. David Luiz (Chelsea)

84. Bernardo Silva (AS Mónaco/Manchester City) 1994

85. Miralem Pjanic (Juventus)

86. Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid)

87. Thomas Lemar (AS Mónaco) 1995

88. Koke (Atlético de Madrid)

89. Jordi Alba (Barça)

90. Alex Sandro (Juventus)

91. Fabinho (AS Mónaco)

92. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United)

93. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea)

94. David Alaba (FC Bayern)

95. Raphaël Varane (Real Madrid)

96. Jamie Vardy (Leicester)

97. Benjamin Mendy (AS Mónaco/Manchester City) 1994

98. Mario Mandzukic (Juventus)

99. Adrien Rabiot (PSG) 1995

100. Angel di Maria (PSG)