Once the Cup FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022which consecrated the national team as champion Argentinathe prestigious sports newspaper L’Equipe published his traditional selection of the ideal team of the year. What is striking is that, despite the consecration Albiceleste in the Arab country, there significant absences of the players who lifted the world champion trophy.
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After the vote that the newspaper usually does as a balance towards the end of the year, only Lionel Messi has been among the eleven holders that make up a system 4-4-2 that they took as a reference to line up the footballers. Even Messiawarded the Golden Ball for the best player in the tournament, is located as an attacking midfielder, a position which he does not usually occupy on the field.
The Argentine star of 35 yearswho militates in the paris saint germainshares the selection of the French newspaper with his teammate and rival in the final in Qatar: kylian mbappe. The other striker chosen was Karim BenzemaBallon d’Or winner, who missed the World Cup due to suffering an injury during training prior to the start of the tournament.
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The ‘ideal eleven’ of 2022 was made up of Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid); Kyle Walker (Manchester City), Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool), Joško Gvardiol (RB Leipzig) and Theo Hernandez (AC Milan); Leo Messi (PSG), Luka modric (Real Madrid), casemiro (Manchester United) and Kevin DeBruyne (Manchester City); Benzema (Real Madrid) and mbappe (PSG).
There were many fans who complained because there were other figures who were left out of the list, but they also had the opportunity to cast their vote for the starting 11 from the public. In that election, in charge of the readers, Messi he repeats as the undisputed starter and the one who got in the lead is the norwegian Erling Haalanddisplacing to Benzema.
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Other changes regarding the vote of journalists is the entry into the English midfield Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund), the French center back Dayot Upamecano (Bayern Munich) and the Moroccan right-back Achraf Hakimi (PSG) in defense. As for the goalkeeper, Courtois obtained 33% of the votes over the Moroccan Bond and the French Hugo Lloris. emiliano I drew Martinez he recently appeared in fourth place along with the Croatian Dominik Livakovic.
On the other hand, when L’Equipe did an ideal team world Cup it did include more footballers from the staggered: logically Messi was one of them, accompanied by frames Egg coin Y Enzo Fernandez.
The best performers in the ecumenical tournament, according to the French newspaper, were: Dominik Livakovic (Croatia); Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Romain Sais (Morocco), Joško Gvardiol (Croatia) and Egg coin (Argentina); Enzo Fernandez (Argentina), Nordin Amrabat (Morocco) and Luka modric (Croatia); Bukayo Saka (England), Messi (Argentina) and kylian mbappe (France).
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Controversy over the ideal team of 2022 made by a French medium: he only chose Lionel Messi from Argentina