For interest here's how L'Equipe rated the best players at France '98:
7,17 Thuram (France)
7,07 Desailly (France)
6,92 Petit (France)
6,60 B. Laudrup (Denmark)
6,40 Ortega & Verón (Argentina), Bergkamp (Holland)
6,36 Rivaldo (Brazil)
6,33 Davids (Holland)
6,30 Henry (France)
Hopelessly biased.
France Football's similarly biased ratings:
30 points: Thuram (France)
28: Desailly (France)
27: Šuker (Croatia), Barthez & Petit (France)
26: Davids (Holland)
25: Dunga & Rivaldo (Brazil), F. de Boer & Stam (Holland)
24: Taffarel (Brazil), Ladic & Jarni (Croatia), Deschamps (France), Cocu (Holland)
23: Cafu, Leonardo, Roberto Carlos & Ronaldo (Brazil), Asanovic & Stanic (Croatia), Van der Sar (Holland)
22: César Sampaio & Júnior Baiano (Brazil), Bilic & Stimac (Croatia), Lizarazu (France), R. de Boer (Holland)
21: Verón (Argentina), Bebeto (Brazil)
20: B. Laudrup (Denmark), Boban & Simic (Croatia), Djorkaeff (France), Overmars (Holland)
Gazzetta dello Sport's Serie A biased ratings:
7,10: Thuram
7,00: Zidane
6,95: Davids
6,90: Mondragón
6,75: Pagliuca, Ince, Owen, Luis Hernández
6,70: Petit, Vieri
6,65: Desailly, Bierhoff
6,60: Di Biagio, Mahdavikia
6,55: B. Laudrup, R. Baggio
6,50: Barthez, Dunga, F. Cannavaro, Overmars, Šuker, Blanco, Wilmots
6,45: M. Laudrup, Deschamps, Rivaldo, Bergomi
6,40: Ronaldo, Hadji, Konsel
And Kicker's average ratings for Brazil players:
7,43 Dunga & Rivaldo
7,17 Cafu
7,08 César Sampaio
7,00 Taffarel, Júnior Baiano & Roberto Carlos
6,86 Ronaldo & Leonardo
6,83 Aldair
6,50 Denílson
6,36 Bebeto
On reflection a lot of those ratings favour defensive players given that it's easier to score steady 7s whereas there are higher demands in a creative, match-changing role for the 10s and 9s. But it does give a sense of some of Ronaldo's competition that summer.