FOX SPORTS FIFA WORLD CUP RANK: Top 100 Players (100-76)

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🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Welcome to the FOX Sports FIFA World Cup Rank! We polled 50 of our elite on-air experts and production staff to build the definitive countdown of the world’s biggest stars set to take the stage in 2026. Over the next five weeks, we’re working our way down to number one. Today, we are breaking down players #100 through #76, featuring massive names like Alexander Isak, Son Heung-min, Raúl Jiménez and the ultimate lightning rod: Christian Pulisic. Do you agree with the desk? Is Pulisic a Top 20 player in the world, or is #79 exactly where he belongs? 1:40 - Players 100-95 - Is Alexander Isak Isak too low?3:34 - Kim Min-jae set to be a lock-down CB this summer5:42 - Players 95-91 - Mikel Oyarzabal set for monster World Cup9:41 - Raúl Jiménez is OVERRATED11:16 - Players 89-86 - U.S. in danger against Kenan Yıldız14:00 - Players 85-81 - Son underrated?18:14 - Players 80-76 - Arda Güler is a BEAST20:22 - Is Christian Pulisic TOO LOW? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Which Christian Polisic is the real Christian Polisic? If he's the best player in Syria, then he's a top 20 player in the world. You don't appreciate him. I voted him higher. I only have one vote. Is it okay if I add an extra? Gentlemen. Raoul Jimenez or son? Son, come on! Son! He's not even a quiet. What would you have Flo Balligan above? Oh.
0:22.4	I probably would.
0:23.4	I probably would, yeah.
0:29.3	It's Captain America to rescue for the next States.
0:35.6	Welcome to the Fox Sports FIFA World Cup rank, the definitive list of the world
0:45.4	stars set to take the stage this summer at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
0:50.2	We pulled 50, yes, 50 of our elite on-air experts and production staff, you know, the people
0:56.1	who live and breathe this game to build the ultimate countdown over the next five weeks.
1:01.6	We are working our way down to number one, Stu Holden, Marisa Doe.
1:06.5	Let's get it on, gentlemen.
1:08.0	100 through 96.
1:10.8	All right, here we go.
1:11.8	Coming in at 100.
1:12.8	Oh, he was so happy when we called him.
1:14.7	Purvis Estupignon, defender from Ecuador.
1:16.9	99, Alexander Esauk, forward from Sweden.
1:19.7	Number 98, Kim Min-J, defender from South Korea.
1:23.6	Number 97, Bradley Barclola, forward from France.
1:26.4	And number 96, Lysandra Martinez,
1:29.3	defender for Argentina.
1:31.3	Gentlemen, I'll go to you, Mo, first.
1:34.3	What stands out? Happy, sad, angry when it comes to these five?
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