07 June 2010

Where Do They Play?

Following up an earlier discussion of the provisional squads, I've posted up tables below showing the country where each of the 23 players on each final World Cup national team plays professionally (interesting trivia: New Zealand has 2 players who apparently do not play professionally, Australia has one). More than half of the players in the World Cup play in the top six European leagues, and the English, German and Italian squads are each populated entirely by domestically-based players. Source for team data: FIFA (pdf).



Summary# in WC%in WC% Domestic
England11816.0%100%
Germany8511.5%100%
Italy7810.6%100%
Spain516.9%87%
France476.4%48%
Netherlands334.5%39%





WORLD CUP TEAM







EnglandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceHondurasItalyJapan
Belgium




1

China




1

Cyprus



1


Czech Republic







Egypt


1



England237
413

France
11
2


1
Germany
12332

1
Ghana


3



Greece
1

14


Honduras




14

Italy


433231
Japan






19
Netherlands


1



Norway


1



Qatar


1



Romania



1


Russia






1
Scotland



1


South Africa


1



Spain
3
1



Switzerland


1



United States




1








WORLD CUP TEAM







Korea DPRKorea RepublicMexicoNetherlandsNew ZealandNigeriaParaguayPortugal
Argentina





3
Austria




1

Australia



4


Belgium





1
Brazil





1
China
1





Columbia





1
Denmark



1


Equador





1
England
2255624
France
1


4
1
Germany
155
231
Greece






1
Israel




3

Italy


2

1
Japan22





Mexico

14


4
New Zealand



9


Netherlands

39
1

North Korea20






Paraguay





4
Portugal





18
Russia11


3
1
Saudi Arabia
1





Scotland
1
1



South Korea
131



7
Spain


1
21
Turkey

1




Ukraine




1

United States



2









WORLD CUP TEAM







SerbiaSloveniaSlovokiaSouth AfricaSpainSwitzerlandUnited StatesUruguay
Argentina






1
Belgium12
1



Brazil






1
Chile






3
Columbia






1
Czech Republic

1




Denmark





1
England4133328
France
2


211
Germany545

73
Greece
11




Israel
1
1



Italy342

414
Mexico





2
Netherlands1311
1
2
Norway





1
Poland111




Portugal11




3
Romania

2




Russia2111



Scotland

1


2
Slovenia
2





Slovokia

2




South Africa


16



Spain2


20

3
Sweden






1
Switzerland




7

Turkey

3



1
Ukraine

1




United States





4
Uruguay






2





WORLD CUP TEAM       
 AlgeriaArgentinaAustraliaBrazilCameroonChileCôte d'IvoireDenmark
Algeria3       
Argentina 6   1  
Australia  1     
Belgium  1   1 
Brazil   2 1  
Bulgaria1       
Cameroon    1   
Chile     7  
Côte d'Ivoire      1 
Denmark       7
England34723164
France71 16 6 
Germany3112412 
Greece1  1 1 3
Israel      1 
Italy262811 3
Japan  2     
Mexico     1  
Netherlands 12 1 15
Portugal11 2 1  
Romania      1 
Russia  1  1  
Scotland1   1 1 
Spain13 43331
Switzerland  1     
Turkey  3131  
UAE  1  1