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World Cup 2022 Best XI: Who were the tournament’s standout performers?

The FIFA World Cup is a great opportunity for players make names for themselves on the international stage or make the jump from stardom to superstardom. 

Who were the standout performers at each position in this year’s tournament? The “World Cup Now” crew put together their best lineups, starting at the top with the head coach.

JIMMY CONRAD’S XI

Coach: Walid Regragui (Morocco)

Goalkeeper: Dominik Livaković (Croatia)

Left fullback: Theo Hernandez (France)

Center back: Joško Gvardiol (Croatia)

Center back: Romain Saïss (Morocco)

Right back: Achraf Hakimi (Morocco)

Central midfielder: Jude Bellingham (England)

Central midfielder: Sofyan Amrabat (Morocco)

Central midfielder: Antoine Griezmann (France)

Left wing: Kylian Mbappé (France)

Striker: Julián Álvarez (Argentina)

Right wing: Lionel Messi (Argentina)

Conrad: I know that Olivier Giroud can be a choice here, but I’m going with Julián Álvarez. I think that he’s been such a nice No. 2 — the Robin to Messi’s Batman — in this particular competition, but they had to figure that out. They started Lautaro Martinez first and that didn’t exactly go as planned and I feel like in Julián, they found someone that’s doing the dirty and creating the spaces that Messi needs to have success. I think he’s more important to Argentina right now than Giroud is to France.

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DAMARCUS BEASLEY’S XI

Coach: Didier Deschamps (France)

GK: Dominik Livaković (Croatia)

LB: Theo Hernandez (France)

CB: Joško Gvardiol (Croatia)

CB: Romain Saïss (Morocco)

RB: Denzel Dumfries (Netherlands)

CM: Aurélien Tchouaméni (France)

CM: Sofyan Amrabat (Morocco)

CM: Antoine Griezmann (France)

LW: Kylian Mbappé (France)

ST: Julián Álvarez (Argentina)

RW: Lionel Messi (Argentina)

Beasley: If you get two World Cup finals back-to-back, I think you deserve some credit. You look at how deep [France] are with their current squad and the players that they lost. But about they players they did use? The young players. Aurélien Tchouaméni probably wouldn’t have played, Adrien Rabiot probably wouldn’t have played because of Paul Pogna and N’Golo Kante. I know they’re good players but at the same time, the coach has to make it work and make them buy into what he’s selling.

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SACHA KLJESTAN’S XI

Coach: Walid Regragui (Morocco)

GK: Dominik Livaković (Croatia)

LB: Theo Hernandez (France)

CB: Joško Gvardiol (Croatia)

CB: Romain Saïss (Morocco)

RB: Achraf Hakimi (Morocco)

 CM: Mateo Kovačić (Croatia)

CM: Sofyan Amrabat (Morocco)

CM: Antoine Griezmann (France)

LW: Kylian Mbappé (France)

ST: Julián Álvarez(Argentina)

RW: Lionel Messi (Argentina)

Kljestan: I thought Mateo Kovačić was fantastic. I thought he was Croatia’s best midfielder throughout this tournament. The ability to pick up the ball, drive it forward in a key possession and not just defer to Modric. I think Brozovic deserves a shout as well. Modric just wasn’t that great in the entire tournament, so I gave it to Kovačić.

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MELISSA ORTIZ’S XI

Coach: Lionel Scaloni (Argentina)

GK: Emiliano Martinez (Argentina)

LB: Nicolás Tagliafico (Argentina)

CB: Nicolas Otamendi (Argentina)

CB: Joško Gvardiol (Croatia)

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p class=”mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content” data-v-1f556a34>RB: Achraf Hakimi (Morocco)

CM: Jude Bellingham (England)

CM: Sofyan Amrabat (Morocco)

CM: Antoine Griezmann (France)

LW: Kylian Mbappé (France)

ST: Olivier Giroud (France)

RW: Lionel Messi (France)

Ortiz: Lionel Scaloni finally found that secret ingredient to make the team, one, reach the final for the first time in eight years and two, be the best version of Argentina that’s existed in the past decade, and he’s done it from Copa America through this World Cup. I also think we have to give a lot of credit to Scaloni for being so young. He played with Lionel Messi, he lived in that system, he knew the environment. He used his own tactics, but he also used his own knowledge of what it’s like to be a player.

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