Officially

100 days until the beginning of the FIFA World Cup

To celebrate, here’s ESPN Soccernet’s list of the top 50 players of the 2010 World Cup

Top 10:

1. Argentina’s Lionel Messi
2. Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo
3. England’s Wayne Rooney
4. Brazil’s Kaka
5. Spain’s Xavi
6. Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba
7. Spain’s Andres Iniesta
8. Spain’s Fernando Torres
9. England’s Steven Gerrard
10. Ghana’s Michael Essien

Spain has 6 players in the top 16 and 9 total players on the list

The only American is Landon Donovan at #50