Pedri (Spain)
“More than 1,200 players will travel to the World Cup finals next June. The joy of a tournament like this is that these players will range from the biggest and richest superstars in the world game to those who are barely professionals. Yet for a few weeks, they will be thrown together to compete for the biggest prize in the sport. Among those 1,200-plus will be a relatively small number of the elite. So with that in mind, we have picked who we think will be the 100 best players at the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. These sorts of articles are, inevitably, subjective. But we have tried to include some more measurable criteria to come up with the order for our 100, and so we created five categories, with each player awarded a mark between one and five. These scores were then totted up, and placed in order. …”
NY Times/The Athletic
Harry Kane (England)