Mihavko — in the TOP-5 of the latest CIES ranking

The International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) has published its version of the ranking of the most valuable central defenders who are not yet players of national teams and do not play for clubs from the top five European leagues (England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France).

Taras Mihavko. Photo — Yu. Yuriev

There is a place on this list for the representative of Kyiv's “Dynamo”: defender of the “white-blues” Taras Mihavko shares 4−5th place in the ranking with Jair Paulo from “Santos” with a transfer value of 22.3 million euros.

TOP-10 most valuable central defenders not from national teams and excluding the TOP-5 leagues according to CIES

1. Ryan Flamingo (PSV, Netherlands) — 39.9 million euros

2. Yuri Baas (“Ajax”, Netherlands) — 26.7

3. Agustin Jai (“Palmeiras”, Brazil) — 22.4

4. Taras Mihavko (“Dynamo”, Ukraine) — 22.3

5. Jair Paulo (“Santos”, Brazil) — 22.3

6. Eduardo Quaresma (“Sporting”, Portugal) — 22.2

7. Wouter Gus (AZ, Netherlands) — 21.3

8. Maxim Estev (“Burnley”, England) — 19.9

9. Otavio Ataide (“Porto”, Portugal) — 17.6

10. Mohamed Simakan (“Al-Nassr”, Saudi Arabia) — 14.4.