Did you know that one of the players at the Club World Cup is also an engineer? And an international futsal player, and a futsal youth coach, yet somehow finds the hours in the day to do a spot of modelling on the side, too?
Well, meet Dylan Manickum, captain of Auckland City.
And how familiar are you with ‘the next Messi’, River Plate’s teenage sensation Franco Mastantuono? He made his senior Argentina debut this week and is on the brink of a big move to Real Madrid. You’ve probably heard of them.
Then there is Jude Bellingham’s younger brother Jobe, who has just swapped Premier League new boys Sunderland for Germany’s Borussia Dortmund, as well as Estevao Willian, the 18-year-old Palmeiras wonderkid who will join Chelsea later this summer.
They’re just four of the 50 players we have profiled for the tournament in the United States, which kicks off when Messi’s Inter Miami face Al Ahly on Saturday, June 14.
We have separated them into four tiers — legend, world class, key player and next generation.
All 32 competing teams are represented, and there is a wide range of ages, with players born in the 1980s, ’90s and 2000s. Mastantuono is the youngest at 17 years and 10 months old, and centre-back Thiago Silva, now back home in Brazil with Fluminense, is the oldest at 40 years and nine months.
Thank you to the 17 writers who have collaborated to bring you this Club World Cup edition of The Radar, with special mentions to Mark Carey and Thom Harris for their brilliant data work. And thank you to our designers Kelsea Petersen and John Bradford, and director of engineering Marc Mazzoni.
Click to expand and collapse each card, and you can use the filters to sort the players by club, nation, position or tier.
Enjoy!
