EA Sports – a trademark of Electronic Arts confirmed the List of players nominated for the Team of the Yearfrom goalkeepers to strikers, for a total of 100 players. Only 11 of those will become full members of the Team of the Year: below who votes!
Vote for the best goalkeeper
There are only 10 goalkeepers in the race, among them the “Italians” Mignan, Chesney and former Roma Alisson. Here is the list of names: Courtois (Real Madrid); Gregor Coppel (Borussia Dortmund); Mike Mignan (AC Milan); Alisson (Liverpool); Ederson (Manchester City); Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus); Kevin Trapp (Frankfurt); Yacine Bounou (Sevilla); Hugo Lloris (Tottenham); Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa).
Choose the best defender
Down to 25 names to pick the best defenders of the year, and here’s the full list: Marcos Acuna (Sevilla); Marquinhos (Paris Saint-Germain); Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina); Joao Cancelo (Manchester City); Jonathan Klaus (Marseille); Thiago Silva (Chelsea); Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich); Jeremy Frimpong (Bayer Leverkusen); Eder Militao (Real Madrid); Ruben Dias (Manchester City); Grimaldo (Benfica); Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain); Theo Hernandez (AC Milan); Rhys James (Chelsea); Kalidou Koulibaly (Chelsea); Nicolas Otamendi (Benfica); Gleeson Bremer (Juventus); Niklas Sule (Borussia Dortmund); Fikayo Tomori (AC Milan); Kieran Trippier (Newcastle United); Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool); Jusko Guardiol (Leipzig); Jules Conde (Barcelona); Christian Romero (Tottenham); Dayot Upamecano (Bayern Munich).
The options in midfield are key
A lot of midfielders have been reported for the final award: Nicolo Barella (Inter Milan); Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund); Stephen Burgess (Ajax); Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan); Bernardo Silva (Manchester City); Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City); Moussa Diaby (Bayer Leverkusen); Nabil Fekir (Real Betis); Seko Fofana (Lens); Pedro (Barcelona); Vincenzo Grifo (Freiburg); Rodri (Manchester City); Daichi Kamada (Frankfurt), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Philip Kostic (Juventus), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Merino (Real Sociedad), Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Martin Odegaard ( Real Madrid (Arsenal); Parejo (Villarreal), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma)Declan Rice (West Ham United), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Aurelien Choameni (Real Madrid), Sandro Tonali (Milan).
Crazy strikers
They are the most impressive role and they are all potentially ‘bombers’, but in fact there are several forwards vying for the prize: Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo); Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco); Karim Benzema (Real Madrid); Rafael Leao (Milan); Neymar Jr (Paris Saint-Germain); Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid); Ousmane Dembele (Barcelona); Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid/Chelsea); Gabriel Jesus (Arsenal); Phil Foden (Manchester City); Cody Gacbo (Liverpool); Erling Haaland (Manchester City); Borja Iglesias (Real Betis). Ciro Immobile (Lazio); Harry Kane (Tottenham); Randall Kolo Mwani (Frankfurt); Dejan Kulusevski (Tottenham Hotspur); Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona); Sadio Mane (Bayern Munich); Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan); Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain); Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain); Christopher Nkunku (Leipzig); Darwin Nunez (Liverpool); Victor Osimhen (Napoli); Mohamed Salah (Liverpool). Heung-min Son (Tottenham Hotspur); Martin Terrier (Raine); Dusan Vlachovic (Juventus); Olivier Giroud (Milan); Antoine Griezmann. (Atletico Madrid)
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