Pogba, Kane, Kante: The 2022 XI for the future was predicted in 2017

What do N’Golo Kante, Harry Kane and Hector Bellerin have in common?

Well, other than representing London-based clubs in the Premier League, they also happened to have been named in “the team of the future for 2022” that was selected by Sportskeeda back in 2017.

Here at GIVEMESPORT, we love the wacky and wonderful world of football predictions where you either look like the second coming of Nostradamus or that you know absolutely nothing about the sport.

We’ve all sat across our mates in the pub and made bold calls that have either proven to be genius flashes of foresight or complete lunacy that should be blamed on the five pints beforehand.

However, that’s exactly what makes looking back at footballing predictions so fun and now that the year around which Sportskeeda built their own forecast has arrived, it’s time to look at how well it’s fared.

The moral of the story is that there are some great picks, some not so great picks and some terrible picks, but that’s exactly the nature of the beast and our predictions would hardly have been much better.

Nevertheless, it’s time to check up on how their predicted 2022 team for the future has turned out and you can join us in revisiting Sportskeeda’s selections by walking through each player down below:

We’re off to a great start. The Paris Saint-Germain shot-stopper is most certainly revered amongst the world’s best goalkeepers having recently bagged the Yashin Trophy and Euro 2020 Player of the Tournament award.

Not the worst shout in the world when you consider that Bellerin briefly established himself as the Premier League’s finest right-back for a couple of the seasons in the mid-2010s.

However, injuries and inconsistent form saw his Arsenal career tail away in the