ESPN FC Women\u2019s Rank<\/a> debuts on ESPN+ on Wednesday December 24th at 7 a.m. ET and will also be available around the world on ESPN+. It\u2019s hosted by Cristina Alexander with analysis provided by former USWNT star Ali Krieger and Natalia Astrain.<\/p>\nThe highlight of the special will be a sit-down interview with the top ranked women\u2019s player in the world, Spain\u2019s Aitana Bonmati of FC Barcelona. Bonmati will feature in an interview with ESPN\u2019s Gemma Soler and presented with the honor.<\/p>\n
Bonmati is the winner of three straight women\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or trophies and is the engine that runs the reigning World Cup champions and three-time Champions League winners. Her Spain and Barcelona teammate Alexia Putellas, herself a two-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner, comes in at second on the list. The top five is rounded out by Arsenal\u2019s Mariona Caldentey of Spain and Alessia Russo of England. The highest ranked North American based player is Malawi\u2019s Temwa Chawinga of the Kansas City Current.<\/p>\n
In what might come as the biggest shock, and a sign of the global power shift in women\u2019s soccer, the highest ranked American player is Arsenal\u2019s Emily Fox at 23rd in the Top 50. Although the USA at 7 total players is only behind England (8) and Spain (9), it\u2019s a shock to not see anyone rank in the Top 20.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s soccer has seen impressive growth worldwide in recent years. Netflix will air the Women\u2019s World Cup in 2027<\/a> and CBS has begun to showcase the Women\u2019s Champions League alongside the men\u2019s games during their whiparound show. ESPN showcasing their women\u2019s soccer countdown on Disney+ shows that they are trying to also capitalize on the growing momentum for the sport around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN FC has revealed its fifth annual Top 50 players in women\u2019s soccer worldwide. And to accompany the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[7417,49,48,156861,561,82,1418],"class_list":{"0":"post-366006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-aitana-bonmati","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-espn-fc","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-womens-soccer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}