PLAYERS · 42 TO WATCH
THE NAMES.
Stars, captains and record-chasers. Squads fill out as the desk adds them.
- DefenderAchraf Hakimi
Morocco - MidfielderAurélien Tchouaméni
France - MidfielderBruno Fernandes
Portugal - ForwardBukayo Saka
England - ForwardChristian Pulisic
United States - ForwardCody Gakpo
Netherlands - ForwardCristiano RonaldoPortugal
- ForwardDarwin Núñez
Uruguay - MidfielderEdson Álvarez
Mexico - ForwardErling Haaland
Norway - MidfielderFederico ValverdeUruguay
- MidfielderFlorian Wirtz
Germany - MidfielderGranit Xhaka
Switzerland - ForwardHarry KaneEngland
- MidfielderJamal MusialaGermany
- MidfielderJames Rodríguez
Colombia - ForwardJérémy Doku
Belgium - MidfielderJoshua KimmichGermany
- MidfielderJude BellinghamEngland
- ForwardJulián Álvarez
Argentina - ForwardKaoru Mitoma
Japan - MidfielderKevin De BruyneBelgium
- ForwardKylian MbappéFrance
- ForwardLamine Yamal
Spain - ForwardLautaro MartínezArgentina
- ForwardLionel MessiArgentina
- ForwardLuis DíazColombia
- MidfielderLuka Modrić
Croatia - DefenderMarquinhos
Brazil - MidfielderMartin ØdegaardNorway
- ForwardOusmane DembéléFrance
- MidfielderPedriSpain
- MidfielderRodriSpain
- ForwardRodrygoBrazil
- ForwardSadio Mané
Senegal - ForwardSantiago GiménezMexico
- ForwardSon Heung-min
South Korea - ForwardTakefusa KuboJapan
- ForwardVinícius JúniorBrazil
- DefenderVirgil van DijkNetherlands
- MidfielderVitinhaPortugal
- MidfielderWeston McKennieUnited States