CIES investigate highlights farrago of 2018 FIFA World Cupâ„¢ squads

The CIES Football Observatory and FIFA have assimilated army to analyse a profiles of a players who were fielded by a 32 competent teams on a highway to Russia. The investigate highlights a farrago of a squads in terms of both age and height, as good as a significance of emigration with roughly dual thirds of players now personification for clubs outward of a organisation they represent.

While Nigeria fielded a youngest players (with an normal age of 24.9 years) in a qualifiers, followed by title-holders Germany (25.7) and by U-17 and U-20 universe champions England (25.9), during a conflicting finish of a spectrum were dual newcomers Panama (29.4 years) and Iceland (29.0), as good as 2014 FIFA World Cup quarter-finalists Costa Rica (29.0).

There were also substantial differences among a teams in terms of a normal tallness of players. At one extreme, 7 associations fielded players with an normal tallness of reduction than 180cm: Peru, Argentina and Uruguay (CONMEBOL), Saudi Arabia and Japan (AFC), Mexico (CONCACAF), and Spain (UEFA). At a other extreme, a normal tallness of a players fielded by 4 European nations – Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Serbia – was during slightest 185cm.

The investigate also suggested that about 9% of players were innate outward of a organisation they represent. Only 7 of a 32 teams did not margin any players innate abroad. The series of footballers personification for clubs outward of a organisation they paint also suggested a significance of emigration in football. In total, 64.6% of footballers play abroad: from 0% for England and Saudi Arabia, to 100% for Croatia, Sweden and Iceland.

Read a full study, that is accessible in issue series 30 of a CIES Football Observatory Monthly Report. The CIES Football Observatory is a investigate organisation within a Centre International d’Étude du Sport (CIES), a Swiss-based eccentric investigate centre founded in 1995 by FIFA in partnership with a canton and city of Neuchâtel.

More information is accessible during www.cies.ch and www.football-observatory.com.

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