It is just one week until the Olympic soccer tournament kicks off at Rio 2016.
Pumped? Yeah, I thought so.
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With the likes of Neymar, Hirving Lozano and Manuel Lanzini in the men’s tournament, plus Carli Lloyd, Marta and Alex Morgan on the women’s tournament, the battle for Gold is always intense and we often see plenty of rising stars come of age at the Olympics.
Below is a list of the top 20 players in both the men’s and women’s competitions in Rio.
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Men’s
- Neymar (Brazil)
- Gabriel Barbosa (Brazil)
- Julian Brandt (Germany)
- Marquinhos (Brazil)
- Davie Selke (Germany)
- Max Meyer (Germany)
- Hirving Lozano (Mexico)
- Lars Bender (Germany)
- Felipe Anderson (Brazil)
- Manuel Lanzini (Argentina)
- Thiago Maia (Brazil)
- Teo Gutierrez (Colombia)
- Ali Adnan (Iraq)
- Oribe Peralta (Mexico)
- Son Heung-min (Korea Republic)
- Gabriel Jesus (Brazil)
- Angel Correa (Argentina)
- Giovanni Simeone (Argentina)
- Matthias Ginter (Germany)
- Jonathan Calleri (Argentina)
Women’s
- Carli Lloyd (USA)
- Marta (Brazil)
- Alex Morgan (USA)
- Christine Sinclair (Canada)
- Eugenie Le Sommer (France)
- Amandine Henry (France)
- Dzsenifer Marozsan (Germany)
- Camille Abily (France)
- Anja Mittag (Germany)
- Alexandra Popp (Germany)
- Becky Sauerbrunn (USA)
- Forminga (Brazil)
- Hope Solo (USA)
- Lotta Schelin (Sweden)
- Caroline Seger (Sweden)
- Saskia Bartusiak (Germany)
- Megan Rapinoe (USA)
- Kosovare Asllani (Sweden)
- Julie Johnston (USA)
- Tobin Heath (USA)
