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2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ Players Facts & Figures

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ Players Facts & Figures

2010 FIFA World Cup South ™

Players facts & figures

Statistical Kit 4

Status as of before 2010 FIFA World Cup™

Birthday Boys

12 June 2010 21 June 2010 1 July 2010 1976 Thomas SORENSEN (DEN) 1979 Konstantinos 1976 (CMR) 1979 (ARG) KATSOURANIS (GRE) 1966 1988 (CHI) 1986 Ismael TIOTE (CIV) (BEL) Referee 1988 (SUI) 1987 Pablo BARRERA (MEX) 1988 Isaac VORSAH (GHA) 2 July 2010 13 June 2010 1985 PAK Nam Chol (PRK) 1978 (GHA) 22 June 2010 1988 LEE Chung Young (KOR) 1980 (FRA) 1987 Nikita RUKAVYTSYA 1975 (SLV) 1981 Guy DEMEL (CIV) (AUS) Referee 1986 (JPN) 24 June 2010 3 July 2010 14 June 2010 1978 1988 (NZL) 1981 (BRA) (JPN) 1987 (ARG) 4 July 2010 15 June 2010 1976 Jan Hendrik HINTZ (NZL) 1983 (CHI) 1972 Marcus HAHNEMANN Assistant Referee 1966 Fermin MARTINEZ (ESP) (USA) Assistant referee 1981 John PANTSIL (GHA) 25 June 2010 1970 (MLI) 1979 (DEN) Referee 16 June 2010 1985 Karim MATMOUR (ALG) 1982 (PAR) Toru SAGARA (JPN) Assistant 5 July 2010 1986 Fernando MUSLERA Referee 1982 (ITA) (URU) 1983 Jonas GUTIERREZ (ARG) 26 June 2010 18 June 2010 1983 (BRA) 7 July 2010 1946 (ENG 1977 (SUI) coach) 27 June 2010 1983 (DEN) 1982 (ALG) 1980 DUDA (POR) 1984 Gokhan INLER (SUI) 9 July 2010 19 June 2010 1987 AN Chol Hyok (PRK) 1982 Bostjan CESAR (SVN) 1979 KLEBERSON (BRA) 1966 Peter HERMANS (BEL) 1986 Sebastien BASSONG Assistant Referee (CMR) 20 June 2010 1978 (ENG) 28 June 2010 10 July 2010 1985 Aurelien CHEDJOU (CMR) 1976 (GHA) 1984 Mark GONZALEZ (CHI) 1987 (RSA) 1983 KIM Young Kwang (KOR) 1985 Mario GOMEZ (GER) 1989 (ARG) 1985 PARK Chu Young (KOR) 30 June 2010 1975 (NZL) 11 July 2010 1977 (PAR) 1974 Andre OOIJER (NED) 1984 (SUI) 1986 (FRA)

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Through the Ages

COACHES

Oldest

09.08.1938 (GER) 27.02.1943 (BRA) South Africa 03.05.1946 Rabah SAADANE (ALG) 18.06.1946 Fabio CAPELLO (ITA) 03.03.1947 Oscar TABAREZ (URU)

Almost 72 years old, Otto Rehhagel will be the oldest coach ever in FIFA World Cup history beating ’s record who coached in 2002 at the age of 70 years and 131 days. Carlos Alberto Parreira, the South African coach will be the fourth oldest ever.

Youngest 22.09.1964 Vladimir WEISS (SVK) Slovakia 01.03.1964 (FRA) 31.10.1963 (BRA) 20.11.1962 (ARG) Paraguay 09.09.1961 Matjaz KEK (SVN)

PLAYERS

Oldest

01.08.1970 David JAMES (ENG) 20.10.1970 Sander BOSCHKER (NED) 15.06.1972 Marcus HAHNEMANN (USA) 06.10.1972 Mark SCHWARZER (AUS) 17.01.1973 Cuauhtemoc BLANCO (MEX)

The top four oldest players are goalkeepers. If David James plays he will be the seventh oldest player ever in World Cup history and Sander Boschker the tenth oldest ever.

Youngest

14.02.1992 (DEN) 22.01.1992 (CMR) 07.12.1991 Chris WOOD (NZL) 10.10.1991 (SUI) 08.08.1991 Joel MATIP (CMR)

There is no player under the age of 18 in the competition.

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TOP FIVE OLDEST AND YOUNGEST TEAMS

Oldest teams - top five

29/03 Brazil 29/02 England 29/00 28/09 28/09 Paraguay

Youngest teams - top five

24/09 25/04 Korea DPR 25/05 25/08 Cameroon 26/04 Nigeria

AVERAGE AGE OF ALL PLAYERS: 1998 - 2010

The average age of all the players participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ is 27 years and 4 months. Incredibly the average has changed very little in the past three World Cups: the average age in 2006 was 27 years and 5 months; in 2002 it was 27 years 6 months and in 1998 27 years and 7 months.

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Goalscorers: Top 3 World Cup hotshots*

Germany’s has already racked up 10 goals in his two previous World Cups, stands at 6 World Cup goals and at 4.

Goalscorers: Top 3 national team hotshots*

Three players have scored more than 50 goals for their national team. ’ Carlos Pavon leads with 56 goals, followed by Thierry HENRY and ’s’ Jon Dahl TOMASSON both with 51 goals.

*updated last on 2nd June

Tall to small

Two players are over 2 meters tall and both players are forwards, not goalkeepers! The tallest is 's Nikola Zigic at 2m 02cm, one centimeter more than England's . Zigic was also the tallest player four years ago at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Following Zigic and Crouch are South Africa's defender and Nigeria's Uwa Echiejle at 1.98. The tallest goalkeeper of the tournament is Greece's Chalkias. The smallest player of the competition is England’s at 1.65.

Five tallest players

2.02 Nikola ZIGIC (SRB) - forward 2.01 Peter CROUCH (ENG) - forward 1.98 Matthew BOOTH (RSA) - defender 1.98 Uwa ECHIEJILE (NGA) - defender 1.98 Konstantinos CHALKIAS (GRE) - goalkeeper

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Old hands at – where do they keep all of those caps?*

Out of all the players present at the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ (Italy) and Thierry Henry () have the most World Cup caps with 15 matches. Cameroon defender Rigobert Song is the most capped player at the World Cup with 136 games for his national team, three more than Honduras’ . 16 players are listed who have more than 100 caps including world champions Cannavaro (132), Buffon (100), South Korean veteran Lee Woon Jae (129), USA’s (121) and France’s Thierry Henry (120). Approaching FIFA’s century club are 13 listed players who have more than 90 caps. Those likely to receive their 100th first during the warm up friendlies or during the competition itself are Honduras’ Carlos Pavon (98), ’ and Paraguay’s (both at 97), ’s Shunsuke Nakamura (96) and Germany’s Miroslav Klose (95). 15 players have yet to earn their first cap. *updated last on 2nd June

Familiar Faces

For five players this will be their fourth FIFA World Cup: Rigobert Song (CMR), Thierry Henry (FRA), Fabio Cannavaro (ITA), Lee Woon Jae (KOR) and Denis Caniza (PAR). Song and Lee played in the 1994 FIFA World Cup and may join the exclusive list of players with more than16 years playing experience: Antonio Carbajal (MEX, 16 years/25 days), Hugo Sanchez (MEX,16y/17d), Lothar Mätthaus (GER, 16y/14d). Almost a quarter of the players listed for the 2010 tournament also participated in the 2006 World Cup and some teams even have half of the players from the 2006 rosters.

Number of players who played in previous World Cups

2006 172 players Teams with most players: AUS 14, NED 13, ENG 12 2002 66 players Teams with most players: DEN 7, KOR, NGA 6 1998 18 players Teams with 2 players: CMR, ITA, JPN, MEX, NED 1994 2 players Rigobert Song, CMR; Lee Woon Jae, KOR

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Coming through the ranks

From the 1993 U-17 FIFA World Cup to the 2009 U-20 FIFA World Cup 32 different players from eight national teams have already won a FIFA title. ’s Aguero is the one with the most honours: two U-20 titles and an Olympic Gold medal.

ARGENTINA FIFA U-20 World Cup 1997: Samuel 2001: Burdisso, M. Rodriguez 2005: Aguero, Messi 2007: Aguero, Di Maria, Romero Olympic Football Tournament 2004: Burdisso, Heinze, Mascherano, C.Rodriguez, M.Rodriguez, Tevez 2008: Aguero, Di Maria, Mascherano, Messi, Romero

BRAZIL FIFA U-20 World Cup 2003: ,

CAMEROON Olympic Football Tournament: 2000: Eto’o, , Kameni

FRANCE FIFA U-17 World Cup 2001: Cisse, A.Diarra

GHANA FIFA U-17 World Cup 1995: Appiah FIFA U-20 World Cup: 2009: Adiyah, Agyei, A. Ayew, Inkoom

MEXICO FIFA U-17 World Cup 2005: Dos Santos, Juarez, Moreno, Vela

NIGERIA FIFA U-17 World Cup 1993: Kanu 2007: Haruna Olympic Football Tournament 1996: Kanu

SPAIN FIFA U-20 World Cup 1999: Casillas, Marchena,

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It’s a Family Affair

Argentina’s coach is the father-in-law of Sergio Aguero. There are two cases where father and son also share the coach and player relationship: Slovakia’s coach Vladimir Weiss and his son Vladimir and the US coach with Michael. The Boateng brothers will play for different teams. They have the same father and both have two nationalities: Jerome chose to play for Germany, Kevin Prince for Ghana. Other brothers: Andre and Ibrahim Ayew (Ghana) both sons of former player Abedi Pelé, Edgar and (Paraguay), Jhony and (Honduras), Kolo and Yaya Touré (Côte d’Ivoire) There are also two pairs of cousins: Cameroon’s Rigobert and and the Slovenian goalkeeper duo Samir and Jasmin Handanovic.

Former winners out in force

The only coach able to win two consecutive tournaments was Italian in 1934 and 1938. In 1938, he called only 4 players who were present in Italy four years before. “Never change a winning team!” has been the motto of other World Cup winning coaches. In 1982 Cesar Menotti relied on 11 players from Argentina’s 1978 winners. In 1986 Italy’s picked 9 players from the team from four years before. Uruguay’s Juan Lopez used 8 players from 1950 in 1954. Italy’s current coach recalled 9 of his Germany 2006 heroes for the competition in South Africa: Buffon, Camoranesi, Cannavaro, De Rossi, Gattuso, Gilardino, Iaquinta, Pirlo, and Zambrotta. There are also four Brazilian players in the 2010 squad who won the title in 2002: Gilberto , Kaka, Kleberson, Lucio. Thierry Henry is the only French player present who triumphed in 1998. Argentina’s current Diego Maradona won the FIFA World Cup in 1986, and Brazil’s coach Dunga in 1994 (under coach Carlos Alberto Parreira who is now on the Bafana Bafana bench).

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Home comforts versus the lure of playing abroad

• All players on the German, English and Italian squads play their trade in their domestic top leagues. • None of Nigeria’s players was on the books of a local club in the last season • All in all 34 players played for 2nd Division clubs (AUS and NZL 5 each, ALG 4). • On only 11 teams more than 50% of the players play in their country. 5 out of the 11 teams are European (GER, ENG, GRE, ITA, ESP), 3 from Asia (PRK, KOR, JPN), 2 from North, Central American and Caribbean (HON and MEX) and only one from Africa (RSA).

Number of players in domestic leagues

ALG 3 13% JPN 19 82.6% ARG 6 26% KOR 13 56.5% AUS 1 4.3% MEX 14 60.9% BRA 3 13% NED 9 39.1% CHI 7 30.4% NGA 0 0% CIV 1 4.3% NZL 9 39.1% CMR 1 4.3% PAR 4 17.4% DEN 7 30.4% POR 9 39.1% ENG 23 100% PRK 20 87% ESP 20 87% RSA 16 69.6% FRA 11 47.9% SRB 2 8.7% GER 23 100% SUI 7 30.4% GHA 3 13% SVK 2 8.7% GRE 14 60.9% SVN 2 8.7% HON 14 60.9% URU 2 8.7% ITA 23 100% USA 4 17.4%

Where they play

Europe 552 75% Asia 68 9.2% North, Central American and Caribbean 42 5.7% South America 36 4.9% Africa 26 3.6% Oceania 9 1.2%

No club affiliation: 3

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Number of players in Big Five countries (all leagues)

England 118 16.0% Germany 84 11.4% Italy 80 10.9% 59 8.0% France 45 6.1% TOTAL 386 52.4%

Percentage of players in Big Five leagues countries

52 52 50

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46 48 47 44

42 42 40 FWC 2010 FWC 2006 FWC 2002 FWC 1998

2010 2006 2002 1998

England 16.0% 13.3% 13.9% 10.7%

France 6.1% 7.9% 7.6% 4.1% Germany 11.4% 10.0% 8.3% 7.5% Italy 10.9% 8.3% 10.3% 10.0% Spain 8.0% 7.1% 7.9% 9.8% TOTAL 52.4% 46.6% 48.0% 42.1%

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The 52 countries represented by at least one player

Country Players % Country Players % ENG 118 16.0% AUS 4 GER 84 11.4% PAR 4 ITA 80 10.9% ROU 4 ESP 59 8.0% ALG 3 FRA 45 6.1% GHA 3 NED 34 4.6% POL 3 JPN 25 3.4% CHN 2 GRE 21 2.9% COL 2 MEX 21 2.9% NOR 2 POR 20 2.7% SRB 2 PRK 20 2.7% SVK 2 RSA 17 SVN 2 HON 14 UAE 2 RUS* 14 UKR 2 KOR 13 URU 2 TUR* 13 AUT 1 ARG 11 BUL 1 CHI 10 CIV 1 SCO* 10 CMR 1 SUI 10 CYP 1 DEN 9 CZE 1 NZL 9 ECU 1 BEL 7 EGY 1 USA 7 KSA 1 BRA 6 QAT 1 ISR 6 SWE 1

*Countries with 10 or more players which are not qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™

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The 29 clubs with six and more players at the World Cup

Barcelona 13 April 25 7 Chelsea 13 AC 7 12 Everton 7 Bayern 11 Hamburger SV 7 Arsenal 10 7 Inter 10 City 7 Panathinaikos 10 Manchester Utd. 7 Real 10 Twente Enschede 7 Ajax 9 Valencia 7 Juventus 9 VfB Stuttgart 7 Wolfsburg 9 Bayer Leverkusen 6 Portsmouth 8 Benfica 6 Hotspur 8 Olimpia 6 Udinese 8 6 Werder Bremen 6

 April 25 (PRK) is the leading non European club and at the same time the only club whose players are all native  Wolfsburg has 9 players from 8 different countries but no Germans!  Arsenal and Inter both have 10 players from 7 different countries (no English and Italian players)  The only club with all native players is 25 April (PRK) 7 players  There are 298 clubs from 52 different countries  There are no clubs represented from Nigeria  Russia has the most clubs amongst the non qualified countries

Countries with the most clubs

England 26 Italy 24 Germany 22 Spain 19 France 18 Japan 14 Mexico, Netherlands 10

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Who’s the boss?

Seventeen coaches already have World Cup experience. Two coaches have won the title as player, Maradona in 1986 and Dunga in 1994. They could join Zagallo and Beckenbauer, the only two coaches to win a World Cup as both coach and player. Another two coaches have already coached their teams to World Cup victory: Parreira in 1994 and Lippi in 2006. Capello, Huh and Maradona are the coaches who have scored at least one World Cup during their playing careers.

Rabah SAADANE (ALG): coach of ALG in FWC 1986 (3 matches)

Diego MARADONA (ARG): player in FWC 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 (21 matches, 8 goals)

DUNGA (BRA): player in FWC 1990, 1994, 1998 (18 matches)

Marcelo BIELSA (ARG): coach of ARG in FWC 2002 (3 matches)

Sven Goran ERIKSSON (SWE): coach of ENG in FWC 2002 and 2006 (10 matches)

Morten OLSEN (DEN): player in FWC 1986 (4 matches); coach of DEN in FWC 2002 (4 matches)

Fabio CAPELLO (ITA): player in FWC 1974 (3 matches, 1 goal)

Raymond DOMENECH (FRA): coach of FRA in FWC 2006 (7 matches)

Marcello LIPPI (ITA): coach of ITA in FWC 2006 (7 matches)

Takeshi OKADA (JPN): coach of JPN in FWC 1998 (3 matches)

HUH Jung Moo (KOR): player in FWC 1986 (3 matches, 1 goal)

Javier AGUIRRE (MEX): player in FWC 1986 (5 matches), coach of MEX in FWC 2002 (4 matches)

Ricki HERBERT (NZL): player in FWC 1982 (3 matches)

Lars LAGERBACK (SWE): coach of SWE in FWC 2002, 2006 (8 matches)

Vladimir WEISS (SVK): player in FWC 1990 for Czechoslovakia (3 matches)

Carlos Alberto PARREIRA (BRA): coach of KUW in FWC 1982, UAE in FWC 1990, BRA in FWC 1994, KSA in FWC 1998, BRA in FWC 2006 (20 matches)

Oscar TABAREZ (URU): coach of URU in FWC 1990 (4 matches)

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