The Guardian\u2019s list of the 100 best male footballers for 2023 features players from Norway, Georgia and Canada, but there are no Americans in sight<\/p>\n
Top 100 male footballers in 2023<\/a><\/p>\n There are 32 different nationalities represented in the Guardian\u2019s list of the Top 100 best male footballers in the world for 2023<\/a>. The top spot is claimed by a player from Norway \u2013 a country of just 5 million people \u2013 who also have another player inside the Top 20. In the Top 100, there\u2019s a Georgian, a Guinean and even a Canadian. There isn\u2019t, however, an American anywhere in sight.<\/p>\n In one sense, that isn\u2019t surprising. Plenty of American soccer players have made a name for themselves at a high level, and continue to do so, but the country has famously \u2013 or infamously \u2013 never produced a true superstar of the sport. The USA is still waiting on its billboard icon. For now, the country\u2019s biggest soccer star is Lionel Messi. But why? Surely it\u2019s reasonable to expect to see just one American in a list of the world\u2019s best 100 players?<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Guardian\u2019s list of the 100 best male footballers for 2023 features players from Norway, Georgia and Canada, but there are no Americans in sight Top 100 male footballers in 2023 There are 32 different nationalities represented in the Guardian\u2019s list of the Top 100 best male footballers in the world for 2023. The top … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}