The situation
With Balde, the Barça club becomes the one that has had the most summons (17 players) in a tournament like this and surpasses the Bavarians, who lost Mane. Chance and a bit of misfortune have caused Barcelona to almost snatch a world record from Bayern Munich in the days before the start of the tournament in Qatar. The call-up of Alejandro Balde due to Gayà’s injury and the loss of Sadio Mané, who belongs to Bayern Munich, make the Barça club the most represented in Qatar. And furthermore, those 17 players, as they previously meant for the Bavarian team, represent a record number in the history of the World Cup. Mané’s departure leaves Bayern at 16 players at the end. Eight are the teams that have taken the 17 Barça players: Eric García, Alba, Balde, Busquets, Pedri, Gavi, Ferran Torres and Ansu for Spain; Koundé and Dembélé for France; Frenkie de Jong and Depay for the Netherlands; Ter Stegen for Germany; Christensen for Denmark, Araújo for Uruguay; Raphinha for Brazil and Lewandowski for Poland. In the ranking of 10 clubs with the most representatives of this World Cup that is about to begin , Real Madrid also appear with 13 footballers in sixth position and Atlético, which with the arrival of Angel Correa will occupy (12 players) seventh place tied with Chelsea and PSG.
The detail
The Qatari Al Saad, coached by Juan Manuel Lillo, is the first non-European entity, just behind a podium completed by Manchester City now tied with Bayern at 16 players. Qatar summoned 15 footballers from Al-Saad and, concentrated in Marbella for weeks, they have left Lillo’s team in the draw for the start of the Star League in this Arab country. So much so that, after winning the championship last year, right now he occupies 9th place in a table of 12 participants. we have to wait.