Seven Manchester Metropolis gamers are amongst 11 Premier League stars nominated for the boys’s 2024 Fifpro workforce of the yr.
Solely Actual Madrid have extra gamers nominated with eight, together with France ahead Kylian Mbappe, who joined the Spanish membership from Paris Saint-Germain in the summertime.
Metropolis’s seven are goalkeeper Ederson, defenders Ruben Dias and Kyle Walker, midfielders Rodri, Kevin de Bruyne, Phil Foden and striker Erling Haaland.
There are 9 England Lionesses within the 26 gamers on the ladies’s World 11 shortlist.
Girls’s Tremendous League champions Chelsea have 4 gamers nominated – ahead Lauren James and defenders Millie Brilliant, Lucy Bronze and Jess Carter, who now represents American aspect NJ/NY Gotham FC.
Goalkeeper Mary Earps, defender Alex Greenwood, midfielders Ella Toone and Keira Walsh and ahead Alessia Russo are the opposite England ladies’s internationals on the listing.
Spain and Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati, who gained the ladies’s Ballon d’Or for the second yr in a row in October, and Zambia and Orlando Satisfaction striker Barbra Banda, BBC Girls’s Footballer of the Yr 2024, are additionally nominated.
England ahead Cole Palmer is shortlisted for the primary time as a Manchester Metropolis and Chelsea participant following his transfer from Etihad Stadium to Stamford Bridge in August 2023.
Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane and Actual Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham are the opposite England internationals within the males’s 26-player shortlist.
Aston Villa and Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez can also be included however there isn’t any place for Liverpool and Egypt winger Mohamed Salah.
Argentina and Inter Miami ahead Lionel Messi and Al Nassr’s Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo are the one two gamers from the listing of 26 who play exterior of Europe.
Messi’s 18th nomination extends his document because the most-nominated participant in historical past, with Ronaldo shut behind on 16.
The Fifpro World 11 award is voted for solely by fellow skilled footballers.
World gamers’ union Fifpro say over 21,000 males’s gamers from 70 international locations have voted, whereas over 7,000 ladies’s footballers have forged their votes.
The 2 World 11 sides shall be named on the Fifa Finest awards on 9 December.
