FIFA World Cup Revelations; my list of revelation players of the tournament

By southamericanmyth

7/23/2026
A day ago i posted my best XI team of the world cup, now i will pick the best players who debuted, are young or not "famous", some from not top tiers national teams or clubs, players that were "under the radar", this time in a list format Goalkeeping: Orlando Gill 🇵🇾 Nationality: Paraguay Age: 26 Height: 1,98m Club: San Lorenzo (Argentina) Market value: €5.4m Despite the first game with USA, Paraguay's gk had a very efficent work on keeping his net clean of goals, with a team that purposely will attack very few and being exposed to rivals had the ball most the time, Gill fits perfectly for the paraguayan defensive wall, he has a lot of career yet to come, just 26 yo for a gk, very tall, cheap price, any bigger brazilian team or middle table team from a major european league should had eyes on him Defenders: Jose Canale 🇵🇾 Nation: Paraguay Age: 29 Height: 1,87m Club: Lanús (Argentina) Market value: €2.2m Don't expect football champagne or sofisticated play, he is a classic strong foot paraguayan defender, he is tall, has acceptable pace, dont doubt or think twice to cut down any incoming danger, a humble player who succesfully marked elite strikers on the world cup. Maybe he is in his young years yet very affordable for bigger teams in southamerican market, mexico or mls. Midfielders: Ayyoub Bouaddi 🇲🇦 Nation: Morocco Age: 18 Height: 1,86m Club: Lille (France) Market value: €46.8m Surely many of the big teams in Europe already have scouts and agents with offerts and contracts over him. A solid central midfield and defensive midfield, a good anchor, also good associative playing, has some qualities to build game and some to detroy rival game building, has the physical prowess to work around the field, a very good skill to control the ball, spin and deliver the ball even when he is pressured by rivals. Emam Ashour 🇪🇬 Nation: Egypt Age: 28 Height 1,80m Club: Al Ahly (Egypt) Market value: €4.1m A multi-task and box to box midfielder, good stamina, has a quite acceptable speed to even play on the flanks, good passing skills, a quite good tackle a ball recovery, he can help any of his team mates either in attack, building game or defending, plus an acceptable scoring instict (if you take on mind he is a midfielder), an unexpected goal scorer for Egypt team. Gilberto Mora 🇲🇽 Nation: Mexico Age: 17 Height: 1,68m Club: Club Tijuana (Mexico) Market value: €10.2m Still a kid yet he plays like a grow up player, very unusual to see someone too young in the mexican starting team, yet very hard to evaluate, he is outstanding compared to other players of his age, but not so outstanding like other young stars as Lamine Yamal or Pau Cubarsi. Acceptable center midfielder, good passing, still some weak on physical terms. Maintaining his level could be a starting player on mexican national team or any mexican first division team, but if his level is rising and evolving through years, he at some point will be at big europeans clubs. Johan Manzambi 🇨🇭 Nation: Switzerland Age: 20 Height: 1,82m Club: Aston Villa (England) Market value: €50.3m A stunning and wonderful revelation on the boring Switzerland team, a creative advanced midfielder, with skills, physically strong, fast paced, good shoot and scoring prowess, is he a brazilian infiltrate on swiss team?. He is already at elite level on Premiere League's Aston Villa, so they had the jewell that could be next star of their team or sold it for a big amount of money. Malik Tillman 🇺🇸 Nation: United States Age: 24 Height: 1,87m Club: Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) Market value: €29.4m Yank player out of the norm, born and raised on german football, has outstanding ability that hardly USA could produce in decades. He is an all-around midfielder, with qualities to play advanced or from depth, physically strong, well technique, and a awesome free kick taker. I assume he will have a long career on Bundesliga or other big european league. Strikers: Andreas Schjelderup 🇸🇯 Nation: Norway Age: 22 Height: 1,77m Club: Benfica (Portugal) Market value: €30.6m Meanwhile Haaland and Odegaard took all the spotlight, there was Schjelderup doing a incisive support role on the left wing, a fast paced player with some dribbling skills, very good player to go forward, to make quick counter-attacks and had the rival sideback with caution. He is young, already on Benfica, a team who impulso young talent. Yan Diomande 🇨🇮 Nation: Ivory Coast Age: 19 Height: 1,80m Club: RB Leipzeig (Germany) Market value: €95.7m Even Ivory Coast strategy was sometimes plain, sometimes struggling, they had difficult rivals, but no matter what Yan Diomande always caused havoc on rival defensive lines, a speeder, good athletic qualities, good dribbling at high speed, absolute menace for sidebacks on 1vs1 duels. He is already on RB Leipzeig, famous for bringing hidden gems to elite european level, a thing to have in consideration, his market value is very high, only affordable for the big teams. Ismael Saibari 🇲🇦 Nation: Morocco Age 25 Height 1,88m Club: Bayern München (Germany) Market value: €44m Morocco main striker, i investigated him, he played at PSV as a advanced midfielder, a playmaker with good speed, skill and shoot, he can also play in the wings, doing cut ins and good shoots outside the box. In his national team his coach put him a a centerforward, the spear tip of the team, wich he succesfully complete, + the high speed attacking of his teammates, in his short career in moroccan team he already has a good amount of goals, german biggest club Bayern Munich decided to buy him during the world cup, a good move. PS: i not included players from top ranking national teams (argentina, germany, brazil, england, spain, netherlands, france) I not included experimented players that already have a career on big leagues, or players in their peak already on big clubs like PSG, Real Madrid, Chelsea, etc

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