A short-list of 15 midfielders from whom three will be selected for a World XI was released by football’s World governing body FIFA on Friday.
The World XI team, which is voted for by tens of thousands of players worldwide, is to be presented at the FIFA Ballon d’Or award ceremony on January 12th.
All
of those on the list were stars of the 2014 World Cup including top
scorer James Rodriguez of Colombia, plus Angel Di Maria of beaten
finalists Argentina and Bastian Schweinsteiger of the champions Germany.
Cristiano
Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will feature on the list of strikers to be
revealed on December 1st, while candidates for the goalkeeper position
and defenders have already been released.
Midfielders short-list:
Xabi
Alonso (Esp/Bayern Munich), Angel Di Maria (Arg/Manchester United),
Cesc Fabregas (Esp/Chelsea), Eden Hazard (Bel/Chelsea), Xavi
(Esp/Barcelona), Andres Iniesta (Esp/Barcelona), Toni Kroos (Ger/Real
Madrid), Luka Modric (Cro/Real Madrid), Mesut Ozil (Ger/Arsenal), Andrea
Pirlo (Ita/Juventus), Paul Pogba (Fra/Juventus), James Rodriguez
(Col/Real Madrid), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Ger/Bayern Munich), Yaya
Toure (ICoast/Manchester City), Arturo Vidal (Chi/Juventus)
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