Klopp best team manager in the world – Ronaldo behind Messi

In the football rankings of the US sports television channel, the 52-year-old from Champions League winner FC Liverpool came out ahead of Pep Guardiola (Manchester City) and Ajax coach Erik ten Hag, who was recently courted by FC Bayern.

Cristiano Ronaldo, however, came away empty-handed: the five-time World Player of the Year had to admit defeat to Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) in the Best Offensive Player category.

Four other top positions, however, went to Liverpool FC: Alisson (goalkeeper), Trent Alexander-Arnold (right-back), Andrew Robertson (left-back) and Virgil van Dijk (centre-back) were chosen in their positions. Alexander-Arnold relegated German international Joshua Kimmich from FC Bayern to second place.

Manchester City provides a large part of the offense in the ESPN ranking: Bernardo Silva, Raheem Sterling and Sergio Aguero were named best attacking midfielder, best outside attacker and best striker. The selection is completed by the French world champion N'Golo Kante (best midfielder) from Chelsea FC.

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Klopp best team manager in the world – Ronaldo behind Messi

Jürgen Klopp has been named ESPN's Team Manager of the Year.

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