The Guardian newspaper recently announced the voting list for the best players in 2024. Real Madrid ‘overwhelmed the crowd’ by occupying 4 spots in the Top 10.
1.Rodri (Man City)
Rodri deserves to be ranked No. 1 in the list for voting for the best player in 2024. The midfielder of Man City and the Spanish national team has had a hugely successful year. He and the Manchester team won the Premier League and then the EURO 2024 championship. With a great influence on the above championship titles of his home team, he became the owner of the 2024 Golden Ball title. Unfortunately, Rodri is temporarily away from the field due to a torn cruciate ligament.
2 .Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid)
Vinicius Jr. seemed to have secured the 2024 Golden Ball title, but unexpectedly lost it to Rodri at the last minute. However, he was somewhat consoled when he just received a double award in the Globe Soccer Awards voting, including best striker and best male player in 2024. Brazilian stars have great influence. to Real Madrid’s playing style to help the capital club Madrid win La Liga and the Champions League in the 2023/24 season.
3. Erling Haaland (Man City)
Haaland has recently been playing poorly and is considered a typical example of Man City’s decline. But in the 2023/24 season, he is still the top scorer in the Premier League with 27 goals. The Norwegian striker contributed greatly to helping Man City successfully defend the championship of the top football tournament in the land of fog. Thus, according to The Guardian, Haaland has a higher ranking than the 2024 Golden Ball vote – an award for which he only ranked 5th on the shortlist.
4. Lamine Yamal (Barca)
The year 2024 marks Yamal’s outstanding success. From a 16-year-old boy labeled a “prodigy”, the Barca star shined at the EURO 2024 finals to become a top international star. He contributed greatly to helping the Spanish team win the tournament in Germany and was voted the Best Young Player at EURO 2024. Following that success, Yamal received the title of Golden Boy for football. The best young player of 2024 is playing in Europe.
5. Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid)
Bellingham spent the 2023/24 season with great success in the colors of Real Madrid. Moved from Dortmund for a transfer price of more than 100 million euros in the 2023 summer market, from the role of a central midfielder, he was pushed by coach Carlo Ancelotti to play right behind the two strikers. In this role, Bellingham shined and became a remarkable goalscorer for Real Madrid. The English player’s excellent form is the key to helping the Madrid team win La Liga and the 2023/24 Champions League.
Wherever Kane goes, bad luck follows him. From Tottenham to Bayern Munich, he is still without a title. However, the British striker’s excellence cannot be denied. In his first season playing for Bayern Munich, Kane won the top scorer award with 36 goals. This season, the former Tottenham star continues to excel. After 15 rounds, he is leading the list of scorers with 14 goals, thereby making a great contribution to helping the Gray Tigers rank No. 1 in the rankings.
7. Lautaro Martinez (Inter)
In the race for the 2024 Golden Ball title, Lautaro Martinez ranked 7th. His ranking did not change according to The Guardian’s poll. This is recognition of Lautaro’s contributions to the Argentina national team and especially in the Inter club shirt. In the 2023/24 season, this 27-year-old striker monopolized the top scorer title with 24 goals. Thanks to his great contributions, the team with black and blue stripes convincingly won the Serie A championship last season.
8.Florian Wirtz (Leverkusen)
In the 2024 Golden Ball voting, Wirtz was not in the Top 10. But The Guardian ranked him 8th, which is not wrong. In the role of “number 10”, Wirtz played very well both in the colors of the German national team and Leverkusen club. He played an important role in helping coach Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen end Bayern Munich’s more than decade-long dominance by winning the Bundesliga championship in the 2023/24 season – the season in which Wirtz was elected Best Player of the tournament. .
Real Madrid must have a reason to dare criticize the organizers of voting for the 2024 Golden Ball for being biased. They believe that Dani Carvajal deserves to be honored more than Man City midfielder Rodri. That’s because in 2024, Real Madrid’s right back won the La Liga and Champions League double, then continued to win EURO 2024. In all of those titles, he played a role. very important. Carvajal is currently temporarily away from the field due to a torn cruciate ligament.
10. Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid)
2024 is not very successful for Kylian Mbappé. At EURO 2024, he only scored 1 goal even though the French team advanced to the semi-finals. The achievement that the top scorer of the 2022 World Cup finals has in the 2023/24 season is only the Ligue 1 championship with PSG, in which he is the top scorer of the tournament with 27 goals. Since moving to Real Madrid, Mbappé has always been on the list of top scorers at the Bernabeu. However, the French star’s scoring performance seems to have declined.
