World XI: 11 Best Players In The World Right Now

FW. Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

Four-time winner of the Ballon d'Or, Lionel Messi has been voted the best player in the world for four consecutive years and it's easy to see why. The Argentinian's list of achievements runs a mile long - Most European Golden Shoe awards (3); most goals scored in a season (73); most hat-tricks in UEFA Champions League history (4) and first footballer ever to score consecutively against all teams in a professional league (La Liga), Messi has done it all. His 46 Liga goals in 32 appearances last season was flabbergasting, and had he not missed the last two months of the campaign with injury, there's little doubt he would have added to his current tally of eight goals in 11 outings for this season. When you think the world's best, you think Messi, because that's what he is.
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Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.