The eighth edition of The Best award will take place this January 15 in the beautiful city of London. There, FIFA will not only reveal the expected winner of the individual award that rewards the best male and female footballer of the year, but the best 11 of 2023 will also be chosen in the now traditional FIFA World11 election.
Recently, FIFPRO has announced the 23 nominees for this collective award and on the same day of the ceremony the 11 footballers will be chosen as follows: a goalkeeper, three defenders, three midfielders, three forwards and, to complete the 11, The footballer with the most votes once the top 10 are chosen will be included in any of the field positions.
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📋 The full 23-player shortlist for the 2023 FIFA FIFPRO Men’s #World11, voted by the players for the players:
🇧🇪 @ThibautCourtois
🇧🇷 @EdersonMoraes93
🇦🇷 @EmiMartinezz1🇵🇹 @RubenDias
🇳🇱 @VirgilvDijk
🇧🇷 @EderMilitao
🇩🇪 @ToniRuediger
🏴 John Stones
🏴 @KyleWalker2🏴… pic.twitter.com/bGon9Dt5wH
— FIFPRO (@FIFPRO) January 3, 2024
Ederson, Militão and Vinicius Jr. have been nominated for FIFA World11
Major absences from the list are not surprising, since footballers of the caliber of Messi, Cristiano or Benzema make an appearance on it. But what there is is a lot of South American representation, since there are three Brazilians, two Argentines and one Uruguayan on the final list.
The three Brazilians are Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson Moraes, who is also nominated for The Best as best goalkeeper, Real Madrid defender Eder Militão and his teammate in the merengue team, Vinicius Junior.
Both Vini and Militão have been nominated for the first time at FIFA World11, being one of the debutants along with the German Ilkay Gundogan, the Spanish Rodri and the Englishman John Stones.
For this reason, the world is already waiting for the results of the vote in which more than 25,000 footballers worldwide will participate. Will the three Brazilians make it to the FIFA World11? Time, and the discretion of the voters, will tell.
