Just like from the start, the quarter-finalists contributed the most footballers

The trend has not changed despite the fact that 24 have already been selected out of the running. This phenomenon is supported by England, who have called up 25 players from their league.

Promoted by the England national team, which includes 25 of its 26 players who have been called up from clubs in their country, The Premier League is the league with the largest number of footballers in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar. It is nothing new, as the 32 teams ranked for the top football event had at least one player with a record in that country of the United Kingdom. Although the numbers have changed, when there were only eight teams left, The direction is the sameanyway Cristiano Ronaldo He started as a forward for Manchester United and reached the quarter-finals as a free agent.

The two clubs from the city of Manchester are the two clubs that contribute the largest number of players to this edition of the World Cup: 12 United and 11 City. Follow him spurs (8) The fourth with the most selections is from another league: Although Germany was eliminated, the Bayern Munich Seven players in the quarter-finals. For the same amount, they score Real Madrid (La Liga) f ajax (irDevice).

The most distributed number is six: this sum contains ChelseaAnd the Arsenal s Liverpool (again Premier), Juventus (a series), Seville s Atletico Madrid (La Liga) f psg (Ligue 1). With five representatives per club, the West Ham s Newcastle (premier league), Inter (Series A) f Barcelona (The League).


– A training course for the Argentine national team in Doha. Photo: Fernando de la Urdine/SE-Clarin

In the Argentine national team, the trend is different: with 10, the league that brings together the most players is La Liga. There they play Nahuel Molina, Rodrigo de Paul, Angel Correa (Atletico Madrid); German Pesella, Guido Rodriguez (Bettis) Alejandro Gomez, Gonzalo Montiel, Marcos Acuna (Seville); Geronimo Rowley s John Voith (Vilareal).

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Five players play in England: Emiliano Martinez (Astonville), Christian Romero (spurs), Lisandro Martinez (Manchester United) Alexis McCallister (Brighton) and Julian Alvarez (Manchester City). Paulo Dybala (Rome) next to Lautaro Martinez (inter), Angel Di Maria s Leandro Paredes (Juventus), they are the representatives of the Italian league.

Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain) and Nicholas Tagliafico (Olympique Lyonnais), the two players who come from French football, while for Portugal, they are registered Nicholas Otamendi s Enzo Fernandez (Benfica). The rest of the team’s players are uniquenesses in German football: Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen); from USA, Thiago Almada (Atlanta United); professional soccer league, Franco Armani (River).

If England does not overtake the fledgling version, only then will the proportions change because the squad list for that country includes 25 players in the Premier League and only one from the Bundesliga. On the other hand, if they reach the semi-finals, regardless of their position at the end of the World Cup, they will have shown that it is English football that sets the pulse of world football. Even if he is not a hero.

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