The players selected for this team won a World Cup between the age of 17 and 23 and played at least one game in their respective winning World Cup campaigns. Priority is given to those who played most games as regular starters with the only exception being the goalkeepers as Bodo Illgner is the only one who won a World Cup after playing at least one match in the tournament (he played all of them in 1990). Giuseppe Meazza is the automatic captain as he's the only player in the list to win a World Cup as captain, even though he filled the role in his second World Cup winning campaign.




COACH: Alberto SUPPICI (youngest ever coach to win a World Cup)




GOALKEEPERS:

Émerson LEÃO
Bodo ILLGNER


DEFENDERS:

Pietro RAVA
Paul BREITNER
Alberto TARANTINI
Giuseppe BERGOMI
Stefan REUTER
Gerard PIQUÉ
Pau CUBARSÍ


MIDFIELDERS:

Víctor RODRÍGUEZ ANDRADE
Horst ECKEL
Rainer BONHOF
Uli HOENEß
Jorge BURRUCHAGA
Sergio BUSQUETS
Mario GÖTZE


FORWARDS:

Giuseppe MEAZZA
Alcides GHIGGIA
PELÉ
TOSTÃO
Mario KEMPES
Kylian MBAPPÉ
Lamine YAMAL


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RESERVES:


GOALKEEPERS:

Heinz KUBSCH
ADO
Luis ISLAS


DEFENDERS:

Ernesto MASCHERONI
ORLANDO
MARCO ANTÔNIO
Néstor CLAUSEN
Ânderson POLGA
Shkodran MUSTAFI
Lucas HERNÁNDEZ
Presnel KIMPEMBE
Benjamin MENDY
Benjamin PAVARD


MIDFIELDERS:

Álvaro GESTIDO
Ugo LOCATELLI
Alan BALL
Martin PETERS
CLODOALDO
Américo GALLEGO
José Daniel VALENCIA
Sergio BATISTA
KLÉBERSON
Corentin TOLISSO
Enzo FERNÁNDEZ
Alexis MAC ALLISTER
PEDRI


FORWARDS:

Pablo DORADO
Felice BOREL
Enrique GUAITA
Óscar MÍGUEZ
MAZZOLA
VAVÁ
AMARILDO
Daniel BERTONI
Thierry HENRY
RONALDINHO
Alberto GILARDINO
André SCHÜRRLE
Julián ÁLVAREZ

I’m really not sure to be honest, it’s all up for debate. Götze, Peters and Ball all have strong claims to be in the first team, especially if you want a player from each nationality.

Exactly but if you replace Peters with Götze, the team would have no English players in the first squad. That's why I say Peters or Ball, unless you replace also Eckel. Gurkenjoe though surely can say more about him.

Eckel didn't miss a single minute in the 1954 WC and proved to be one of the key players in the Miracle of Bern by neutralizing Hidegkuti almost completely during that match. Usually Fritz Walter (as the captain), Toni Turek (because of his incredible saves) and Helmut Rahn (don't need to explain that, everybody knows the story of the "Boss" in the final) are named first when it comes to the heroes of Bern but the defensive contribution of Mai (against Kocsis), Liebrich (against Puskas) and Eckel (against Hidegkuti) was very important as well (of course you can't control one of the best attacking trios of all time for the whole game but Liebrich, Mai and Eckel did an excellent job there).
I'd even dare to say that Eckel was more crucial for Germany's WC win in 1954 than Busquets was in 2010 or Clodoaldo in 1970.