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29th Nov 2013

No prizes for guessing who made number one in Four Four Two’s Top 100 Footballers in the world list

We’ll give you a clue, it’s not Messi.

Conor Heneghan

We’ll give you a clue, you live there it’s not Messi.

Yes, you’ve guessed it, it was indeed tigerish yet strangely underrated Sunderland midfielder Lee Cattermole who the writers at distinguished football magazine Four Four Two deemed to be the best player in the world after an exhaustive examination of global football over the last 12 months.

Ok, enough with the act, it was of course Cristiano Ronaldo who made it to the top of the list ahead of Lionel Messi and Franck Ribery after a team of nearly 50 experts from all over the world spent the guts of two months debating who should make the list and the order it should take.

Unfortunately if not really surprisingly, no Irish player was deemed worthy of making the list but some positions of note as far as the Premier League is concerned were Robin van Persie (9), Mesut Ozil (16) Yaya Toure (17), Luis Suarez (19), Sergio Aguero (20), Wayne Rooney (23) and Juan Mata (25).

You can see the list in full here and get a greater idea of the Four Four Two selection process here, but overall we can’t make too much of an argument with their selections, although you’re more than welcome to argue in the comment box below.

Four Four Two’s Top 10 Footballers in the World 2013

  1. Cristiano Ronaldo
  2. Lionel Messi
  3. Franck Ribery
  4. Radamel Falcao
  5. Andres Iniesta
  6. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  7. Philipp Lahm
  8. Gareth Bale
  9. Robin van Persie
  10. Thiago Silva