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Fullbacks: Dani Alves and Alex Sandro
The two fullbacks on this list are missing out for contrasting reasons but it would be appropriate to say that either one of them would walk into the starting XI of almost every single football club on the planet.
Dani Alves was Brazil’s first choice right-back but an untimely injury has forced him out with former Wolfsburg defender Fagner taking his place in the squad and Manchester City’s Danilo is likely to start.
Alves, who turned 35 this month, is the most decorated footballer on the planet, having picked up a plethora of trophies with Sevilla, Barcelona, Juventus and PSG, and he would have loved to cap it off with a World Cup winners medal.
Alex Sandro’s case is different, the Juventus man missed out because the two left-backs in the squad are Marcelo and Filipe Luis.
Marcelo is the first choice left-back and Tite opted to take Luis as his backup option. If he picked Sandro, then Luis would have missed out. However, Luis is 32 and Sandro is 27, so the former may not have another chance to play at the World Cup while Sandro can hope to go to Qatar in 2022 as the first choice left-back.
