World Soccer | June 2017
THE FIVE HUNDRED MOST IMPORTANT PLAYERS ON THE PLANET
Another year, another World Soccer five hundred. As with previous years, it is not intended to be a list of the “best” five hundred players in the world. It’s impossible to compare players from different leagues and continents; any list is inevitably subjective. We have endeavoured to compile a list of the world’s most talked about players, the most newsworthy who, by definition, are the most important. As with last year, we began by drawing up a list of the key players by league, starting with sixty each for the leading leagues in Europe
(England, Germany, Spain), fifty for France and Italy, between fifteen and twenty five for middle-ranking leagues, and ending with between five and ten
for smaller leagues.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in World Soccer June 2017.