With some surprises and the presence of Lionel Messi, they announced the best 11 of the last year

As is usually customary for this date, some awards and distinctions come to light to evaluate and highlight the performances of the footballers throughout the year. That is the case of the IFFHS (International Football Federation History and Statistics), an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In the last few hours he announced the formation of the best 11 of players in 2023, where the presence of the captain of the Argentine team Lionel Messi stands out, who during that period played one semester with the Paris Saint Germain shirt and another with the of Inter Miami, creating a true revolution in American soccer by leading the franchise to win its first official title (Leagues Cup) and to the final of the US Open Cup.

The chosen alignment was a 3-4-3, conspicuously placing La Pulga in the midfielder's area as a kind of winger on the left, an area of the field in which he does not usually move frequently. The dream forward was made up of the following trident: the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé, the great figure of Paris Saint Germain, the scorer Erling Haaland (he achieved a historic treble with Manchester City by winning the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League) and the Englishman Harry Kane, currently at Bayern Munich in Germany. The representative of the English national team surprisingly appears as a winger on the right.

The rest of the team

In the middle zone, in addition to the presence of Lionel Messi, there are three other European stars. Manchester City's Belgian Kevin De Bruyne and Real Madrid's Englishman Jude Bellingham are positioned in the center of the field, while Manchester City's Spanish Rodri was thrown to the right wing. The line of three is made up of two defenders from Bayern Munich and one from Manchester City: the Canadian Alphonso Davies, the South Korean Kim Min Jae and the Portuguese Ruben Dias. The guardian of the goal is the Brazilian Ederson, an important piece for the Spanish strategist Pep Guardiola in the citizen team.