The World Is a Ball: Bayern puts a team and a half in the Cup and leads the list; City and Barça come next

Bayern Munich is the club that most loaned players to countries participating in the World Cup in Qatar.

The German giant, current champion of the Bundesliga, will have 17 athletes –or one and a half football teams– that belong to it playing in the World Cup, spread over eight teams.

Most of them will defend Germany: goalkeeper Neuer and outfield players Kimmich, Goretzka, Musiala, Sané, Gnabry and Thomas Müller.

Another four players are from the French national team (Pavard, Upamecano, Lucas Hernández and Coman, one is from Cameroon (Choupo-Moting), one is from Canada (Davies), one is from Croatia (Stanisic), one is from Morocco (Mazraoui) , one is from the Netherlands (De Ligt) and one is from Senegal (Mané).

After Bayern, the clubs that will have more athletes in the teams that will compete in the Cup from Sunday (20), according to Kicker magazine, are the English Manchester City, current two-time Premier League champion, and the Spanish Barcelona, ​​which leads the Spanish Championship. , both aged 16.

If there are no Brazilians at Bayern, both City (goalkeeper Ederson) and Barça (striker Raphinha) have released one each for Tite’s selection.

The first is Alisson’s reserve, and the second has a good chance of starting as a starter in the attack, alongside Neymar and Richarlison, the debut game, on Thursday (24), against Serbia.

The other associations that most provided athletes for one or more of the 32 teams that will try to lift the FIFA Cup on December 18 (date of the final) are:

• Al-Sadd, from Qatar: 15 (13 for the host country);
• the English Manchester United: 14 (among them Casemiro, Fred and Antony);
• Spain’s Real Madrid: 13 (including Vini Jr., Militão and Rodrygo);
• o Al-Hilal, from Saudi Arabia: 12 (all for the Saudi national team).

Of the clubs in Brazil, seven players were called up for the World Cup.

In the Brazilian team are Everton Ribeiro and Pedro (both from Flamengo) and Weverton (Palmeiras). Uruguay has De Arrascaeta and Varela (both from Flamengo) and Canobbio (Athletico-PR), and Ecuador has Arboleda (São Paulo).