Posted in r/soccer by u/junglejimbo88 • 252 points and 53 comments
The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/junglejimbo88 on 2024-10-09 02:57:44+00:00.
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The football-mad world No 1 is in London playing for a $1m prize fund and despite dominating the chess world says he has never played the perfect game
One small measure of how Magnus Carlsen has made chess cool came on Thursday afternoon, when the world’s best player walked through a London cafe tailed by school kids repeatedly shouting one word – “Magnus! Magnus!” – as they attempted to grab selfies on the run. Yet such is the ripple effect of the chess boom, fuelled by the pandemic and the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, that the game has been catapulted into far more unexpect
Changing of the guard in world football as Messi drops out of top three
The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/UnusualAd69 on 2023-12-23 10:13:56.
For the first time since the start of the top 100 in 2012, neither the Argentinian nor Cristiano Ronaldo has made the podium.
Voting done by judges :-
Haaland > 67.4% Bellingham > 9.6 % Rodri > 8.3% Mbappe > 6.4% Messi > 5.5% Others > 2.8%