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As has become customary for 15 years ago, Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi led the FIFA’s ’14 ideal’ also known as ’11’ 2010-2021 FIFA FIFPRO, which also includes Pole Robert Lewandowski, winner of ‘The Best’ Award, his former teammate David Alaba, now Real Madrid defender .

This election of the 14 best players by position of the season 2020-2010, in which they participated 19.947 soccer players from 69 countries, each choosing three players for each position (goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and forward) , left several unique data and several broken streaks.

Among the data, the mentioned 15 consecutive mentions of Cristiano stand out Ronaldo and Leo Messi, while among the broken streaks we must mention the absence of Sergio Ramos for the first time since 2010. It is also surprising that no Brazilian player was selected for the first time in 14 years.

Meanwhile, it should be mentioned that players like the Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG), the Austrian David Alaba, the Portuguese Ruben Dias (Manchester City), the Norwegian Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund) and the Italian Jorginho (Chelsea) they are in eleven for the first time.

For their part, the Italian Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Kevin De Bruyne, the Frenchman N’golo Kanté (Chelsea) and Lewandowski are there for the second time.

Among other outstanding data we found that Donnarumma was the character who received the most votes, with 11,955. While Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City) and the Argentine Lionel Messi (Barcelona/PSG), were the other two with the most votes, surpassing the 10,000.

Composition of 11 FIFA FIFPRO 2021:

– Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan/Paris Saint-Germain, ITA)

– Defenders: David Alaba (Bayern Munich/Real Madrid, AUT), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus, ITA), Ruben Dias (Manchester City, POR)

– Midfielders: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City, BEL), Jorginho (Chelsea, ITA), N’Golo Kante (Chelsea, FRA)

– Forwards: Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus/Manchester United, POR), Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund, NOR), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich, POL) and Lionel Messi (Barcelona/ Paris Saint-Germain, ARG).

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By Scribe