More and more symbolic all-star teams are popping up—featuring the world’s most expensive players who are sitting out the World Cup, injured players, and so on.
In this context, one of the most intriguing is a symbolic all-star team made up of the most expensive players participating in the World Cup.
The website bombardier.ru has presented its version of such a team.
The combined value of the players included in it is 1,395,000 euros, or more than $1,600,000.
The team features three players from Spain, two each from France and Portugal, and one each from Morocco, Colombia, Brazil, and Norway.
The team of the most expensive players at the 2026 World Cup looks like this:
Goalkeeper: Joan García (Spain).
Defenders: Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), William Pacho (Colombia), William Saliba (France), Nuno Mendes.
Midfielders:João Neves (both – Portugal), Pedri.
Forwards:Lamine Yamal (both – Spain), Vinícius (Brazil), Kylian Mbappé (France), Erling Haaland (Norway).
All-star team of the world’s most expensive players
