The 100 best footballers in the world 2016 - The Guardian

Lebohang · 20 Dezembro 2016

The 100 best footballers in the world 2016 – interactive

Our panel of 124 experts from 45 nations compiled a list of the greatest male players on the planet. Today we reveal Nos 100-71.

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The 100 best footballers in the world 2015 – interactive

1. Cristiano Ronaldo | 31 | Real Madrid / Portugal | Forward | 2015 Rank 2 ▲1

It is a measure of Cristiano Ronaldo's astonishingly consistent excellence that a year in which he won the Champions League with Real Madrid before captaining Portugal to victory at Euro 2016 is widely considered to have been a quiet one by his own preposterously high standards. While his apparently insatiable desire to make everything from the most informal dressing-room team photo to the highlight reels of the biggest football spectacles all about him may grate more often than amuse, it is difficult to ignore the reality that football's most preening showman is rarely found wanting ... even on the rare occasions he is found wanting. Having failed to score in the Champions League final, he stepped up to fire home the decisive spot-kick in the shootout. After limping off in the first half of Portugal's win over France in the Euro 2016 decider, he appointed himself de facto coach to roar, gesticulate and will his less talented team-mates to victory against the hosts. The No1 choice of just over half of our 122 judges, this was not one of Ronaldo's better years and he has still managed to end it with his fourth Ballon d'Or award, almost a decade after being presented with his first.

2. Lionel Messi | 29 | Barcelona / Argentina | Forward | 2015 Rank 1 ▼1

“There should be a Ballón d’Or for him and another one for all the other players,” Jorge Sampaoli said recently. Managed to set the bar so high, made the ridiculous so routine, that a year (by mid-December) in which he produced the most goals (58) and assists (34), in which he completed more dribbles than anyone else, became Xavi and Messi rolled together, won a league and cup double and took Argentina to a third final in a row, is judged a disappointment somehow. He would have thought so too when he missed that penalty at the Copa América. So much so that afterwards, he said that he was going to give up on international football, only to change his mind – to everyone’s relief. Without him, Argentina have looked bereft and when World Cup qualification was on the line (it still is), he stepped up to rescue them with a goal and two assists against Colombia. Superb throughout 2016, he has started this new club season in astonishing form, his game at Sevilla absolutely mind-blowing – even by his ludicrous standards. He has started to “Di Stéfano”, one newspaper said, playing everywhere and as everything. His range of passing all over the pitch, always better than anyone else’s but hidden behind the goals, the dribbles and the assists, is getting talked about at last. There may never have been a player who can do much as him; the best No10, 7, 8, 11 and 4 all wrapped in one.

3. Luis Suárez | 29 | Barcelona / Uruguay | Forward | 2015 Rank 4 ▲1

The best of the “other” players after a season in which at club level he could even make a case to have been better than the “other two”. “When Neymar and Messi play, I try to get out the way,” he said, but on the final day of a league season which had begun with him scoring the only goal, his hat-trick clinched the title. That was appropriate: he got more goals and more assists than anyone in Spain in 2015-16. His 40 La Liga goals were more than anyone else has ever scored – apart from Messi and Ronaldo – and it was the first time one of them had not been top scorer in seven years. He scored regularly in the Champions League too and, by mid-December, he was just three short of 100 Barcelona goals.

4. Antoine Griezmann | 25 | Atlético Madrid / France | Forward | 2015 Rank 28 ▲24

5. Neymar | 24 | Barcelona / Brazil | Forward | 2015 Rank 3 ▼2

6. Gareth Bale | 27 | Real Madrid / Wales | Forward | 2015 Rank 16 ▲10

7. Robert Lewandowski | 28 | Bayern Munich / Poland | Forward | 2015 Rank 5 ▼2

8. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | 27 | Borussia Dortmund / Gabon | Forward | 2015 Rank 27 ▲19

9. Alexis Sánchez | 28 | Arsenal / Chile | Forward | 2015 Rank 10 ▲1

10. Riyad Mahrez | 25 | Leicester City / Algeria | Forward | 2015 Rank 97 ▲87

11. Sergio Agüero | 28 | Manchester City / Argentina | Forward | 2015 Rank 9 ▼2

12. Luka Modric | 31 | Real Madrid / Croatia | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 31 ▲19

13. Kevin De Bruyne | 25 | Manchester City / Belgium | Forward | 2015 Rank 14 ▲1

14. Gonzalo Higuaín | 29 | Juventus / Argentina | Forward | 2015 Rank 48 ▲34

15. Andrés Iniesta | 32 | Barcelona / Spain | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 12 ▼3

16. N'Golo Kanté | 25 | Chelsea / France | Midfielder | New

17. Paul Pogba | 23 | Manchester United / France | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 11 ▼6

18. Manuel Neuer | 30 | Bayern Munich / Germany | Goalkeeper | 2015 Rank 8 ▼10

19. Jamie Vardy | 29 | Leicester City / England | Forward | 2015 Rank 68 ▲49

20. Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 35 | Manchester United / Sweden | Forward | 2015 Rank 7 ▼13

21. Toni Kroos | 26 | Real Madrid / Germany | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 35 ▲14

22. Gianluigi Buffon | 38 | Juventus / Italy | Goalkeeper | 2015 Rank 34 ▲12

23. Mesut Özil | 28 | Arsenal / Germany | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 26 ▲3

24. Diego Godín | 30 | Atlético Madrid / Uruguay | Defender | 2015 Rank 40 ▲16

25. Sergio Ramos | 30 | Real Madrid / Spain | Defender | 2015 Rank 37 ▲12

26. Leonardo Bonucci | 29 | Juventus / Italy | Defender | 2015 Rank 92 ▲66

27. Dimitri Payet | 29 | West Ham United / France | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 90 ▲63

28. Philippe Coutinho | 24 | Liverpool / Brazil | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 46 ▲18

29. David de Gea | 26 | Manchester United / Spain | Goalkeeper | 2015 Rank 18 ▼11

30. Pepe | 33 | Real Madrid / Portugal | Defender | New

31. Thomas Müller | 27 | Bayern Munich / Germany | Forward | 2015 Rank 6 ▼25

32. Arturo Vidal | 29 | Bayern Munich / Chile | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 15 ▼17

33. Harry Kane | 23 | Tottenham Hotspur / England | Forward | 2015 Rank 38 ▲5

34. Ivan Rakitić | 28 | Barcelona / Croatia | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 20 ▼14

35. Eden Hazard | 25 | Chelsea / Belgium | Forward | 2015 Rank 13 ▼22

36. Jérôme Boateng | 28 | Bayern Munich / Germany | Defender | 2015 Rank 45 ▲9

37. Paulo Dybala | 23 | Juventus / Argentina | Forward | New

38. Gerard Piqué | 29 | Barcelona / Spain | Defender | 2015 Rank 44 ▲6

39. Sergio Busquets | 28 | Barcelona / Spain | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 24 ▼15

40. Hugo Lloris | 29 | Tottenham Hotspur / France | Goalkeeper | New

41. Koke | 24 | Atlético Madrid / Spain | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 70 ▲29

42. Jan Oblak | 23 | Atlético Madrid / Slovenia | Goalkeeper | New

43. Ángel di María | 28 | PSG / Argentina | Forward | 2015 Rank 39 ▼4

44. David Silva | 30 | Manchester City / Spain | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 30 ▼14

45. Marco Verratti | 24 | PSG / Italy | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 43 ▼2

46. Diego Costa | 28 | Chelsea / Spain | Forward | 2015 Rank 51 ▲5

47. Edinson Cavani | 29 | PSG / Uruguay | Forward | 2015 Rank 54 ▲7

48. Marcelo | 28 | Real Madrid / Brazil | Defender | 2015 Rank 88 ▲40

49. Mauro Icardi | 23 | Internazionale / Argentina | Forward | 2015 Rank 82 ▲33

50. Karim Benzema | 29 | Real Madrid / France | Forward | 2015 Rank 33 ▼17

51. Mats Hummels | 28 | Bayern Munich / Germany | Defender | 2015 Rank 75 ▲24

52. Thiago Silva | 32 | PSG / Brazil | Defender | 2015 Rank 41 ▼11

53. Casemiro | 24 | Real Madrid / Brazil | Midfielder | New

54. Renato Sanches | 19 | Bayern Munich / Portugal | Midfielder | New

55. Keylor Navas | 30 | Real Madrid / Costa Rica | Goalkeeper | 2015 Rank 67 ▲12

56. Philipp Lahm | 34 | Bayern Munich / Germany | Defender | 2015 Rank 21 ▼35

57. Henrikh Mkhitaryan | 27 | Manchester United / Armenia | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 77 ▲20

58. Toby Alderweireld | 27 | Tottenham Hotspur / Belgium | Defender | New

59. Kévin Gameiro | 29 | Atlético Madrid / France | Forward | New

60. Joshua Kimmich | 21 | Bayern Munich / Germany | Defender | New

61. David Alaba | 24 | Bayern Munich / Austria | Defender | 2015 Rank 23 ▼38

62. Javier Mascherano | 32 | Barcelona / Argentina | Defender | 2015 Rank 25 ▼37

63. Douglas Costa | 26 | Bayern Munich / Brazil | Forward | 2015 Rank 32 ▼31

64. Gabriel Jesus | 19 | Palmeiras / Brazil | Forward | New

65. Mohamed Salah | 24 | Roma / Egypt | Forward | 2015 Rank 69 ▲4

66. Giorgio Chiellini | 32 | Juventus / Italy | Defender | 2015 Rank 71 ▲5

67. Aritz Aduriz | 35 | Athletic Bilbao / Spain | Forward | New

68. Laurent Koscielny | 31 | Arsenal / France | Defender | 2015 Rank 100 ▲32

69. Sadio Mané | 24 | Liverpool / Senegal | Forward | New

70. Miralem Pjanic | 26 | Juventus / Bosnia-Herzegovina | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 55 ▼15

71. Álvaro Morata | 24 | Real Madrid / Spain | Forward | 2015 Rank 47 ▼24

72. Kasper Schmeichel | 30 | Leicester City / Denmark | Goalkeeper | New

73. Aaron Ramsey | 25 | Arsenal / Wales | Midfielder | New

74. Raphaël Guerreiro | 22 | Borussia Dortmund / Portugal | Defender | New

75. Rui Patrício | 28 | Sporting Lisbon / Portugal | Goalkeeper | New

76. Roberto Firmino | 25 | Liverpool / Brazil | Forward | New

77. Yannick Carrasco | 23 | Atlético Madrid / Belgium | Forward | New

78. Dani Alves | 33 | Juventus / Brazil | Defender | 2015 Rank 58 ▼20

79. Nani | 30 | Valencia / Portugal | Forward | New

80. Gianluigi Donnarumma | 17 | Milan / Italy | Goalkeeper | New

81. Claudio Bravo | 33 | Manchester City / Chile | Goalkeeper | 2015 Rank 84 ▲3

82. Marek Hamsik | 29 | Napoli / Slovakia | Midfielder | New

83. Miguel Borja | 23 | Atlético Nacional / Colombia | Forward | New

84. Blaise Matuidi | 29 | PSG / France | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 53 ▼31

85. Ilkay Gündogan | 26 | Manchester City / Germany | Midfielder | New

86. Juan Mata | 28 | Manchester United / Spain | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 87 ▲1

87. James Rodríguez | 25 | Real Madrid / Colombia | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 19 ▼68

88. Raheem Sterling | 22 | Manchester City / England | Forward | 2015 Rank 62 ▼26

89. Arjen Robben | 32 | Bayern Munich / Netherlands | Forward | 2015 Rank 22 ▼67

90. Dele Alli | 20 | Tottenham Hotspur / England | Midfielder | New

91. Adrien Silva | 27 | Sporting Lisbon / Portugal | Midfielder | New

92. Thibaut Courtois | 24 | Chelsea / Belgium | Goalkeeper | 2015 Rank 36 ▼56

93. Fernandinho | 31 | Manchester City / Brazil | Midfielder | New

94. Alexandre Lacazette | 25 | Lyon / France | Forward | 2015 Rank 61 ▼33

95. Éver Banega | 28 | Internazionale / Argentina | Midfielder | New

96. Francesco Totti | 40 | Roma / Italy | Forward | 2015 rank 96 ▶

97. Santi Cazorla | 32 | Arsenal / Spain | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 95 ▼2

98. Thiago Alcântara | 25 | Bayern Munich / Spain | Midfielder | 2015 Rank 81 ▼17

99. Julian Weigl | 21 | Borussia Dortmund / Germany | Midfielder | New

100. Ousmane Dembélé | 19 | Borussia Dortmund / France | Forward | New

Oblivion · 20 Dezembro 2016

dis gun be gud

Inkie · 20 Dezembro 2016

O Weigl devia estar aí 80 lugares acima :mrgreen:

joe · 20 Dezembro 2016

Depois do Ronaldo e Pepe deve vir o William. Inglesices :lol:

RenatoSanches · 20 Dezembro 2016

Thiago e Weigl atrás de Adrien, nem é preciso ver mais

Oblivion · 20 Dezembro 2016

bem, foi mais rápido do que esperava

Jamarcus · 20 Dezembro 2016

Thiago e Weigl atrás de Adrien, nem é preciso ver mais

Tu tens sempre de reclamar com tudo o que é do Sporting? :lol: que impressão

jean-luc godard · 20 Dezembro 2016

Tu tens sempre de reclamar com tudo o que é do Sporting? :lol: que impressão

Não é só do Sporting, também é do Porto.

Jone Sampaoli · 20 Dezembro 2016

Raphael Guerreiro em 74. :)

RenatoSanches · 20 Dezembro 2016

Tu tens sempre de reclamar com tudo o que é do Sporting? :lol: que impressão

Vi agora que o Ramsey e Gundogan (mal jogou esta epoca) ficaram a frente do Thiago e Weigl,

Shark · 21 Dezembro 2016

se o JM não estiver no top30 isso é falso

migxstoper · 21 Dezembro 2016

É bom lembrar que houve um Europeu no verão a alguns users.

Lebohang · 21 Dezembro 2016