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First Things First

Top 26 Players who will define the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Messi vs. Ronaldo, Team USA represented?

First Things First

Fox Sports

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.32.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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0:00.0

Live from New York, it's the show that's counting down the 26 players who will define World Cup 2026.

0:07.0

It's the single best event in sports. It's all on Fox and FS1.

0:12.0

I've got a winner that I'm going to give out during this show.

0:15.0

Wow.

0:16.0

I can't wait.

0:17.0

Let's go.

0:18.0

Okay?

0:19.0

Here comes the countdown.

0:20.0

We're going to start with Weston McKinney of the United States of America.

0:24.6

Listen, he's 27 years old.

0:26.6

He plays for Juventus.

0:27.6

He can play literally any position but keeper.

0:31.6

He's in the midst of his best club league season, including scoring four goals in the Champions League.

0:38.3

If the United States is finally going to make it pass their glass ceiling of the round of 16,

0:45.3

and return to the quarterfinals, he might be the single most influential player.

0:52.3

And as you're seeing in these highlights, you're going to see him

0:54.5

all over the pitch playing again, or you know, any of 10 different spots on the field.

1:00.0

He might be the X factor for the United States. Love it. Moving on to number 25, Saka, only 24 years old,

1:09.3

already in his second World Cup.

1:11.6

Brew, three goals for England in 2022.

1:13.6

Arsenal Wing, one of the best passers in the world,

1:16.6

plays with a joy, fun to watch.

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