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Messi excluded as Bellingham and Real dominate FIFPRO honours

BY REUTERS Six players from Champions League winners Real Madrid and four from Manchester City feature in this year’s FIFPRO World 11 announced on Monday by the global players’ association, with Lionel Messi absent for the first time in almost 20 years. The 2024 FIFPRO World 11 is the first edition since 2006 to exclude Messi. The Argentinian, who holds the all-time record with 17 selections, was replaced in the front row by Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Jr. Jude Bellingham topped the men’s overall voting, with the Real Madrid and England midfielder receiving 11,176 selections from his peers. Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk was the sole player outside of Real and City included in the men’s team of […] The post Messi excluded as Bellingham and Real dominate FIFPRO honours first appeared on 93.3 KFM.

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