Deciding which soccer league reigns supreme—the world’s most popular sport, no less—is no easy task. You could go the stats ...

Who is the best player in world football? For the best part of two decades, the answer has been a coin toss. No longer. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were the two greatest footballers of a ...

Lionel Messi remains among the world's best players, but Cristiano Ronaldo drops out of the top 25 following a dismal Euro 2024. Football is an ever-changing meritocracy and, therefore ...

French football journalist Julien Laurens tells The Football News Show that PSG winger Ousmane Dembele has been the "best player in the world" in 2025.

In Mbappé, they have “a striker with everything” who has “underlined” why he is “surely the best player” at this World Cup. Is Mbappé the best player on the planet? It’s “hard to ...

Ryan O'Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He's also the author of "Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game's Analytics Revolution." Nine years ago, Ousmane Dembélé was doing what he's doing now ...

Roberto Baggio and Andrea Pirlo are among Italy's greatest-ever players. / Alessandro Sabattini/Getty England may have officially gifted the world with soccer ... the world's best player in ...

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