The final publication, at the expense of any changes introduced due to damage, of player lists summoned by the 32 teams that will participate in the World Cup leaves a series of strange facts.
Want to know who is the tallest and shortest player in the tournament? The youngest and the ‘grandfather’ of the World Cup? The general averages and those of Spain? And much more? Well, don’t miss any details.
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831 registered players
Teams tend to register between 24 and 26 football players each. Of the 32 participants, 31 completed the quota. Only one, Iran, reduced the payroll and left it at 31 footballers. In total, 831 professionals will be on the World Cup pitches.
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44 countries and 292 clubs. Send the Premier
These 831 players participated in Leagues from 44 different countries and were active in 292 clubs. The Premier League is the tournament that contributes the most players: 159. LaLiga is second, with 86, just four more than the Bundesliga (82). The Italian Serie A, despite the fact that the ‘squadra azzurra’ is not in the World Cup, gathers 70 participants and occupies the fourth place in the ranking.
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From the English fourth division to the World Cup
Chris Gunter, Welsh defender for English AFC Wimbledon, is the player present at the World Cup playing for his club in the lower category. In particular, in the English Football League Two, which will be the fourth division of English football, behind the Premier League, Championship and English Football League One.
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The ‘tower’ of the World Cup
At 203 centimeters, Dutch goalkeeper Andries Noppert, from Herenveen, is the ‘ceiling’ of the championship, ahead of his colleague from Serbia, Vanja Savic (Torino), who has 202. Real Madrid player Courtois closed the podium, with 199 centimeters. The tallest outfield player is in the antipodes: it is the Australian defender Harry Souttar, from the English Stoke City, who reaches 198 centimeters.
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And the ‘plugs’
Moroccan Chair, a 25-year-old Queen’s Park Rangers midfielder, is the player Mundias will see closest to the ground. His height, 1.64 meters, was the lowest in the tournament. The podium was completed by the Cameroonian Fai (1.65 meters) and the Japanese Soma (1.66 meters).
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Ghana, the ‘baby choice’; Iran, the oldest
With an average age of 25.3, the African is the youngest team in the tournament. At the other end of the ranking is Iran, whose 25 registered players are four years older on average than Ghana: 29.4 years.
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22 years between the youngest and oldest
The award for the youngest player in the World Cup goes to Germany: Moukoko, a Dortmund striker born on November 20, 2004, will start the World Cup on his birthday, at the age of 18. More than 22 separate him from Mexican goalkeeper Talavera, from Si FC Juárez, who was born on September 18, 1982 (almost two months after the World Cup in Spain…), is already 40.2 years old.
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Gavi, on the ‘kids’ podium
The Barça player is the third youngest player in the tournament. At 18.3 years old (born on August 5, 2004), the player occupies third place in the ranking of the youngest players, after the German Moukoko (18 years old) and the Australian Kuol (18.3 months).
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And Red, the fourth youngest
At 26.2 years old, Luis Enrique’s team was left on the podium of the youngest teams, but very little. Only Ghana (25.3), United States (25.6) and Ecuador (26.1) surpassed it. In terms of height, ours is 1.81 meters tall on average and true to tradition, they are at the bottom of the table: Spain is the ninth shortest team among the 32 participants. Serbia, with an average of 187.2 centimeters, is the tallest team, with Mexico (178.8 on average) closing the circle.
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Robot portrait of the player
Statistics tell us that the average player who will participate in the World Cup is a footballer with an average age of 27.5 years and a height of 182.1 centimeters. And there are more opportunities to play in the Premier than any other League in the world. And in Bayern, with 17 players is the club that contributes the most numbers to this event. Leroy Sané (photo), 183 centimeters, 26.9 years old and a Bayern player, would be the closest to the cliché.
Source: La Verdad
I’m Rose Herman and I work as an author for Today Times Live. My expertise lies in writing about sports, a passion of mine that has been with me since childhood. As part of my job, I provide comprehensive coverage on everything from football to tennis to golf.
