Controversial rankings: Ronaldo cannot enter the top 100 best players of 2023

Last season, Fourfourtwo ranked Cristiano Ronaldo at number 44. This year, Ronaldo’s name no longer appears in the top 100 of the year’s best player rankings. This is the most controversial detail when the British football magazine announced its annual rankings.

Ronaldo is the second highest scorer in the world in 2023 with 50 goals. This is the same achievement as Erling Haaland and only 2 goals less than Harry Kane. With 3 remaining matches in 2023, CR7 can completely take the number one position from the Bayern Munich star.

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Ronaldo’s name was controversially removed.

At the age of 38, Ronaldo is still in impeccable form with 50 goals and 14 assists in 56 matches, at all levels.

Meanwhile, Lionel Messi performed much worse (28 goals, 12 assists after 44 matches) but was ranked 6th in the top 10 best players, only down one place compared to the 2022 rankings. Messi’s mark in 2023 is the Ligue 1 championship with PSG and the League Cup title with Inter Miami.

While Ronaldo did not enter the top 100, Erling Haaland also scored 50 goals but was ranked first for the second year in a row. The Norwegian striker ended the 2022/23 season with a legendary treble with Man City.

The former Dortmund star still regularly scores goals and creates impressive statistics and records. He was the top scorer in his first season playing in the Premier League with 38 goals, along with the fastest record to reach 50 goals in the history of the tournament.

“Haaland is the Usain Bolt of soccer. This striker will almost certainly score every time he plays. Haaland’s playing style is cold but simple like his personality,” 442 praised the striker. wearing the Man City shirt.

The 2nd and 3rd positions on the list belong to Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane respectively. Young star born in 2003 Bellingham scored 17 goals in just 20 appearances for Real Madrid this season. Meanwhile, Kane is still showing “destructive” form with 21 goals in just 15 matches in the 2023/24 Bundesliga. The former Tottenham captain played well but Bayern is still 4 points behind coach Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen.

Kylian Mbappe, Haaland’s biggest counterweight in the following seasons, ranked fourth in a row for the second year in a row, behind “Ninja Turtle” Rodri (Man City), Bernardo Silva (Man City), respectively. City), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid) and Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid).