subject: Where Can I Find Top 10 World Cup 2010 Soccer Players? [print this page] Where Can I Find Top 10 World Cup 2010 Soccer Players?
If you are looking for a listing of the Top 10 elite soccer athletes in the world during the 2010 World Cup, look no further than ESPN. This site provides everything you need to understand who these players are, what they look like, and how they are ranked. ESPN not only ranks the top ten but the entire top 50 players. What will you find on this listing?
Name
Age
Country
Club Team
Position
Photo
Bio
Scouting Thumbnail
Country flag icon
In addition each profile includes:
Team statistics (number of appearances, number of goals)
World Cup statistics(number of appearances, number of goals)
It's a great resource for both the casual and hardcore soccer fan. Of course, only in the United States is the sport known as soccer. Everywhere else it is football. Why, because you play it with your feet. So why is American Football called football? That's a topic for another article.
On this same site you can keep up with the game schedules, scores, and an archive of past games. It's a wealth of information. How did the ranking get created? The site does not make it clear, but presumably, its the ranking decided by all the sportswriters at ESPN. Does the ranking shift? Yes, as one player outshines another, he can move up in the ranking. Why is there no women listed? Maybe some day, there will be.
This site also lets you join into the conversation by adding comments. There are fierce debates going on in the comment sections, and nearly one thousand comments have been posted so far. The World Cup is ending, so if you read this in a few days, it will be a historic document of what went down at one of the most exciting World Cups in recent memory. Who knew the U.S. would get so far? Or that England would disappoint?
The Top Ten are:
1. Lionel Messi, Argentina
2. Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
3. Wayne Rooney, England
4. Kaka, Brazil
5. Xavi, Spain
6. Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast
7. Andres Iniesta, Span
8. Fernando Torres, Spain
9. Steven Gerrard, England
10. Michael Essien, Ghana
A good mix of countries from Europe, South America, and Africa.
