7 Remarkable Numbers from The World Cup Qatar 2022
The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) has published some remarkable numbers on its official website ahead of the start of the finals of the 22nd edition of the World Cup, which will be hosted by the State of Qatar, from November 20 to December 18, 2022.
203
It is the length of the 28-year-old Dutch goalkeeper Andries Noppert, who plays for the Netherlands national team and Dutch club Heerenveen.
Andries is the tallest player participating in the World Cup, ahead of his counterparts, Serbian goalkeepers Vanja Milinkovic-Savic of the Italian club Torino (202) meters, and the Belgian Thibaut Courtois of Real Madrid (200) meters.
While the Australian defender Harry Souttar, a player of the English club Stoke City (198) meters, leads the list of the tallest players on the field.
163
The English Premier League will be represented in the World Cup in Qatar by 163 out of 831 players participating in the finals, which is equivalent to 19.6 percent of the total number, which is nearly double the number of players who represented the second league after it, which is the Spanish Laliga, with 86 players. The Premier League was also represented in the Russia 2018 edition by the largest number (124 out of 736, which equals 16.9 percent).
117
Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo scored 117 goals for his country, more than the total scored by all 26 players in the squads of the 15 teams participating in the finals: Australia, Cameroon, Ecuador, Ghana, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Spain, Tunisia, USA, and Wales.
40
Mexican goalkeeper Alfredo Talavera will surpass the 40-year-old barrier by 63 days when the finals start, making him the oldest player in the World Cup in Qatar, And in the case, he gets his meager opportunity to participate in the presence of the other veteran goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa (37 years), Talavera will become the eighth forty-year-old player to participate in the finals after his Italian counterparts Dino Zoff, Northern Irishman Pat Jennings, English Peter Chilton, Tunisian Ali Bumenigl, Colombian Fred Mondragon, Egyptian Essam El-Hadary and Cameroonian striker Roger Milla.
18
Youssoufa Moukoko (Borussia Dortmund player) will be the youngest player in the 2022 World Cup, as the German striker celebrates his eighteenth birthday at the opening of the finals on Sunday, to occupy second place in the list of the youngest European players to participate in the World Cup behind Northern Ireland’s Norman Whiteside, who was 17 years and 41 days old when he faced Yugoslavia in the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
17
Bayern Munich will be the most represented club in the World Cup with 17 players, as its players are distributed among the teams of Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, France, Morocco, the Netherlands, Senegal, and Germany, of course.
And comes in second place for each Barcelona, Spain, and Manchester City, England, by 16 players each.
10
France is represented by 10 players who were in the World Cup Russia 2018 squad when France won the title at the expense of Croatia in the final match.
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