England star Jude Bellingham beats three Spanish World Cup winners to clinch SM's Midfielder of the Tournament prize

England prima Jude Bellingham has beaten 3 members of Spain's World Cup-winning squad to clinch the World Cup 2026 Midfielder of the Tournament prize in Sports Mole's Readers' Awards.

Bellingham became the archetypal Englishman to people 7 goals successful a azygous World Cup, reaching that awesome tally with a superb solo onslaught successful Saturday's 6-4 win implicit France successful the third-place playoff.

The 22-year-old starred with back-to-back braces successful England's hard-fought victories implicit Mexico and Norway successful the past 16 and quarter-finals respectively. 

Bellingham's efforts person been acknowledged by our audience, claiming a 52% stock of the Midfielder of the Tournament ballot successful our Readers' Awards.

The Real Madrid antheral bushed 3 members of the Spanish squad that lifted the World Cup, including Golden Ball victor Rodri, who collected 26% of the vote.

Argentina's Enzo Fernandez finished successful 3rd spot with 13%, portion the Spanish duo of Mikel Merino (3%) and Pedro (2%) had to settee for 4th and 5th spot respectively. 

Meanwhile, Norway's Martin Odegaard (2%), Switzerland's Johan Manzambi (1%) and Aurelien Tchouameni (1%) person made up the bottommost three.