MOTD Top 10: Best Premier League players from 'rest of the world'

The Match of the Day Top 10 podcast has discussed the best South American players and debated the best European imports, so all that's left is the rest of the world.

Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards will return in the spring with their latest series of the BBC Sounds hit, ranking their top 10s from an assortment of topics across the Premier League era.

But we're giving you an early chance to get involved, by letting you pick your top three for each of the upcoming shows, and the trio will get to see your choices before they record the pod for BBC Sounds.

Today's subject is the best players who have made an impression having come from overseas, specifically those from Asia, Australasia, Central America, the Caribbean, and North America.

The gang previously ranked Thierry Henry as the best European player to have graced the Premier League and Sergio Aguero as the best South America, but what about the rest of the world?

«This is everywhere on the planet apart from the places we've already done — which didn't leave much! — but there are still some excellent players on this list,» Lineker told BBC Sport.

«I think what it shows is how global the Premier League is now. Footballers have travelled all over the world to play in different leagues for years and years, but we are very lucky in this country to have had so much variety and quality.

»We arguably have the most exciting and competitive league in the world as well as vast financial muscle and it attracts many of the great players from every corner of the globe.

«With that comes massive attention in their home countries too.

»Son Heung-min for example is a national hero in South Korea — there is coverage of whatever he does and thousands of Koreans go to every game