The Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has failed to make into the Fifa FifPro World11 shortlist, for the first time in the award’s history.
This comes as a major setback for Rooney, who has been included on every year's shortlist since the World XI was introduced in 2005. Furthermore, the painful part would be that Rooney is no longer part of a very exclusive club.
This also means that Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon are now the only two players to have been nominated by FifPro’s members in every year of the award, reported The Independent.
The 55 player shortlist includes:
Goalkeepers: Â Claudio Bravo (Chile/Barcelona/Manchester City), Gianluigi Buffon (Italy/Juventus), Keylor Navas (Costa Rica/Real Madrid), David de Gea (Spain/Manchester United) Â and Manuel Neuer (Germany/Bayern Munich), reported The Mirror.
Defenders: David Alaba (Austria/Bayern Munich), Jordi Alba (Spain/Barcelona), Serge Aurier (Ivory Coast/Paris St Germain), Jerome Boateng (Germany/Bayern Munich), Hector Bellerin (Spain/Arsenal), Leonardo Bonucci (Italy/Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Italy/Juventus), Dani Alves (Brazil/Barcelona/Juventus), David Luiz (Brazil/Paris St Germain/Chelsea), Dani Carvajal (Spain/Real Madrid), Diego Godin (Uruguay/Atletico Madrid), Mats Hummels (Germany/Borussia Dortmund/Bayern Munich), Marcelo (Brazil/Real Madrid), Philipp Lahm (Germany/Bayern Munich), Javier Mascherano (Argentina/Barcelona), Pepe (Portugal/Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Spain/Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Spain/Real Madrid), Thiago Silva (Brazil/Paris St Germain) and Raphael Varane (France/Real Madrid).
Midfielders: Andres Iniesta (Spain/Barcelona), Sergio Busquets (Spain/Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (Spain/Bayern Munich), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium/Manchester City), Eden Hazard (Belgium/Chelsea), N'Golo Kante (France/Leicester/Chelsea) Toni Kroos (Germany/Real Madrid), Luka Modric (Croatia/Real Madrid), Dimitri Payet (France/West Ham), Mesut Ozil (Germany/Arsenal), Paul Pogba (France/Juventus/Manchester United), Ivan Rakitic (Croatia/Barcelona), David Silva (Spain/Manchester City), Marco Verratti (Italy/Paris St Germain) and Arturo Vidal (Chile/Bayern Munich).
Strikers: Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Real Madrid), Gareth Bale (Wales/Real Madrid), Sergio Aguero (Argentina/Manchester City), Karim Benzema (France/Real Madrid), Paulo Dybala (Argentina/Juventus), Antoine Griezmann (France/Atletico Madrid), Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina/Napoli/Juventus), Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Bayern Munich), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden/Paris St Germain/Manchester United), Thomas Muller (Germany/Bayern Munich), Neymar (Brazil/Barcelona), Alexis Sanchez (Chile/Arsenal), Luis Suarez (Uruguay/Barcelona) and Jamie Vardy (England/Leicester).
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