For club & national team
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Alexis Mac Allister wore the jersey of Liverpool FC and the Argentina national team in the 2024 calendar year, both of which were among the most successful teams. The midfielder won 51 times out of 66 attempts; no footballer won more games than him. The top five is dominated by the Reds and second place is occupied by another Argentinian. Florian Wirtz and Robert Andrich from Bayer Leverkusen also made it into the top 10.
Mac Allister won 40 of his 53 games with Liverpool and in his 13 appearances with world champions Argentina he only failed to win twice. However, his trophy cabinet was only expanded to include the English League Cup and the Copa América – the Reds were no longer able to intervene in the championship race. Thanks to an outstanding second half of the year under Klopp’s successor Arne Slot, in which 23 of 27 games were won, Cody Gakpo (50 wins), Luis Díaz (48) and Virgil van Dijk (47) also made it into the top five. Liverpool celebrated 43 three-pointers in 57 games – no other team was more successful in this category in 2024.
The only professional who was able to break Liverpool’s dominance and finish in second place is Argentinian Julián Alvarez. In the first half of the year he won 21 of his 26 games with Manchester City and celebrated the English championship. He crowned his strong year with Argentina, in which he only failed to win three times in 14 appearances, with triumph at the Copa América. As a result, Alvarez moved to Atlético Madrid for 75 million euros, becoming the most expensive transfer so far this season. There he won 18 of his 26 games and led his team in the LaLiga table.
The most successful players in this category from the Spanish champions and Champions League winners Real Madrid are in places 14 and 18. Antonio Rüdiger won 44 of his 62 games with the Royal and German national teams, just like the Uruguayan Federico Valverde, who was responsible for this It took 68 attempts. With Wirtz and Andrich, only two German professionals had more competitive successes to celebrate than Rüdiger. Wirtz had 46 wins in 66 games, Andrich had 45 in 62 games. The 17-year-old Lamine Yamal achieved 43 triumphs in 60 attempts with Barça as Spanish European champions – increasing his market value from 60 million to 180 million euros.
