200 of the 736 players summoned to Russia have been to the
FIFA World Cup™ before. 186 were at Brazil 2014, 61 were at
South Africa 2010 , 21 were at Germany 2006 and one was at
Korea/Japan 2002 : Rafa Marquez, who will become just the
fourth man to go to five editions of the tournament after
Antonio Carbajal, Lothar Matthaus and Gigi Buffon.

Culled from fifa.com

100 per cent of England’s players are based in their national league. The Three Lions are followed by Russia (21/23) and Saudi Arabia (20/23). Senegal and Sweden, on the other hand, didn’t pick a single player from their domestic championship, while Belgium, Iceland, Nigeria and Switzerland selected only one apiece. Seventy-four per cent of the players at Russia 2018 are based in Europe.

The inclusion of Ikechukwu Ezenwa in Nigeria world cup squad with net both Ezenwa former club and present club FC
Ifeanyiubah and Enyimba respectively a bumper sum of at least total sum of #85,982,400 (according to the present N360 to one dollar rate).

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Imagine if Nigeria had taken 10 home based players, and the amount of money that will be brought to Nigeria's economy?

53 of the squad members have a World Cup goal to their name. Thomas Muller (10) has the most, followed by James Rodriguez (6), Tim Cahill, Gonzalo Higuain, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez (5).

45 years and five months is the age that makes Essam El- Hadary the oldest player to ever make a World Cup squad. The Egypt goalkeeper was born over six years before the second-oldest player at Russia 2018 – Mexico’s Rafa Marquez – and is even older than three coaches: Aliou Cisse (Senegal), Mladen Krstajic (Serbia) and Roberto Martinez (Belgium). El-Hadary is hoping to outrank Colombia’s Faryd Mondragon (43 years and three days) and became the oldest man to play in the World Cup.

29 years is the huge age gap between Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez and his Senegal counterpart Aliou Cisse. The 71-year- old, who will become the second-oldest coach in World Cup history behind Otto Rehhagel , began his career in the dugout just a few years after Cisse was born.

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