They are players, coaches, referees or even managers and they marked the year 2021 on the field or behind the scenes. The team publishes this Thursday the classification established by its editorial staff of the “30 who make French football”. The PSG player Kylian Mbappé figure in first place.
Classification
- Kylian Mbappé
- Karim Benzema
- Lionel messi
- Christophe galtier
- Didier Deschamps
- Dimitri Payet
- Franck Haise
- Neymar
- Antoine Griezmann
- Kadidiatou Diani
- Burak Yilmaz
- Nasser Al-Khelaïfi
- Zinedine Zidane
- Paul pogba
- Bruno Genesio
- Vincent Labrune
- Jorge Sampaoli
- Stephanie Frappart
- Peter Bosz
- Hugo Lloris
- Christmas Le Graët
- Lucas Paqueta
- Thierry Henry
- Pablo Longoria
- Mino raiola
- Jean-Michel Aulas
- Dimitri Rybolovlev
- Habib Beye
- Corinne Deacon
- Sebastien deneux
How is this ranking established?
To establish this classification, no criteria to be fulfilled, except that of having marked the minds of the journalists of the football team of the Team. “It’s really a subjective classification”, indicates Lionel Dangoumau, editor-in-chief of the service. All the members of the football editorial team thus made their own list and after a vote, this final list could be established. “They can be players, coaches, managers, anyone who is thought to have a weight, in a very varied way, on French football”.
Kylian Mbappé number 1
Kylian Mbappé? Easy to justify: it is quite simply the “best French player of the past year and one of the best in the world”. Karim Benzema comes second, but “it doesn’t matter much” : “Mbappé has a charismatic dimension, an ability to transcend his sport, he speaks to everyone, he is a real star who has societal commitments, who is involved in the life of the city”, according to Lionel Dangoumau. Unlike Benzema, he plays in Ligue 1, in France, which gives him more weight nationally. Especially since he has “spoke this year, on his career, his choices, his performances, which had become a bit rare”. “He was criticized for being selfish on the pitch, continues Lionel Dangoumau. He erased that. He could also seem a little haughty because he spoke little. Talking made him feel a little warmer “.
Three women in the ranking
Kylian Mbappé dethrones as well Stephanie Frappart, international referee, at the top of the ranking in 2021 but who “remains an important figure in French football, even if it is not very publicized”.
PSG striker Kadidiatou Diani, she entered the rankings as best player of the year in D1. Why so few women in the ranking (apart from Corinne Deacon who has been there every year since she has coached the French women’s team)? “The Euro pushed back”, “a year of transition” for women’s football, without a French club winner of the Champions League and with “controversy between players and coaches”.
Notable starters: Messi and Henry
Other notable entries: Messi, “unavoidable” even if he is not number 1 because his performances have not been “up to expectations and its signature” ; or even Thierry Henry who “remains one of the greatest French football players”. Since becoming a consultant for Amazon, with his “your particular” and his “relevant analyzes”, “we see it almost every weekend on television” and it is so “once again become a character in the ‘L1 soap opera'”.
► Lionel Dangoumau, Football editor-in-chief of L’Équipe will be the guest of the show Ma France, hosted by Wendy Bouchard, at 1:20 p.m. this January 6.