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Hibapress-Rabat-Fifa
The 2025 club World Cup started yesterday Saturday
Official staff have been announced
Cancelo, Fábio, Mbappé, Messi and Ramos will be there
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In all, 142 Brazilians appear in the staff of the 32 participating teams. It is more than any other nationality. Follow the Argentines (104), the Spanish (54), the Portuguese (49), the Americans (42), the Mexicans (40), the French (37), the Germans (36), the Italians (36), the Moroccans (31) and the South Africans (31).
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Lionel Messi (Inter Miami CF) is the player present at the FIFA 2025 ™ club World Cup with the greatest number of international goals to his credit: 112 for Argentina. He is followed by Harry Kane, of FC Bayern München (73 for England), Luis Suárez, from Inter Miami (69 for Uruguay), Aleksandar Mitrović, Al Hilal (62 for Serbia), Edinson Cavani, from CA Boca Juniors (58 for Uruguay), Olivier Giroud, (57 for France), Mehdi Taremi, from FC Internazionale Milano (55 for the RI Iran), and Kylian Mbappé, Real Madrid Cf (50 for France). Messi (193), Luka Modrić, from Real (188), and Sergio Ramos, from CF Monterrey (180), are the players who played the greatest number of international matches.
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Fábio, the goalkeeper of Fluminense FC, aged 44 and 257 days when the competition kicks off, will undoubtedly be the oldest player. He is followed by his teammate and central defender Thiago Silva (40), the goalkeeper of the Mamelodi Sundowns FC Denis Onyango (40), the Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modrić (39) and the CF defender Pachuca Gustavo Cabral (39). Remarkable: In the United States, Fábio will participate in a FIFA tournament 28 years after its first. Alongside Ronaldinho, he helped Brazil win the FIFA ™ U-17 World Cup in 1997. Fábio is over five and a half more than Bayern coach Vincent Kompany.
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Kylian Mbappé is the player who scored the most goals in 2025 among the participants in the Club World Cup. At 26, he scored 29 goals in 32 appearances with Real Madrid. Mbappé is followed by Ousmane Dembélé (25 goals in 30 matches for Paris Saint-Germain), Serhou Guirassy (22 goals in 26 matches for Borussia Dortmund) and Vangelis Pavlidis (22 goals in 29 games for SL Benfica).
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The tournament will be honored by the presence of 26 winners of the FIFA World Cup ™: two Spaniards from the 2010 edition in South Africa, two Germans from the 2014 edition in Brazil, nine French of the 2018 edition in Russia and thirteen Argentines from the 2022 edition in Qatar. The full list: Sergio Busquets, Sergio Ramos, Thomas Müller, Manuel Neuer, Ousmane Dembélé, Olivier Giroud, Antoine Griezmann, Lucas Hernández, Presnel Kimpembe, Thomas Lemar, Hugo Lloris, Kylian Mbappé, Benjamin Pavard, Marcos Acuña, Armani, ángel Correa, Rodrigo de Paul, Ángel di María, Enzo Fernández, Lautaro Martínez, Lionel Messi, Nahuel Molina, Gonzalo Montiel, Nicolás Otamendi and Germán Pezzella. Six players represent Atlético de Madrid, which is unprecedented: Álvarez, Correa, from Paul, Griezmann, Lemar and Molina.
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Takeshi Wada, Urawa Red Diamonds midfielder, who has just been 16 last week, is the youngest tournament player. He is followed by Dortmund Mathis Albert’s winger (16 and 24 days old at the start of the tournament), the defender of Bayern Cassiano Kiala (16 and 154 days), the LAFC midfielder Jude Terry (16 and 249 days) and the Bayern striker Mike Wisdom (16 and 263 days). The most common age is 22 years old (80 players), 21 -year -old follow -up (77 players), 19 years (69 players), 25 years (66 players) and 29 years (64 players).
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João Cancelo, the right side of Al Hilal, represented six teams present at this club World Cup. The 31 -year -old previously played for Benfica, FC Internazionale Milano, Juventus FC, Manchester City and Bayern. Danilo, the right back of CR Flamengo, went through FC Porto, Real, City and Juventus and arrives in second position with five clubs represented. Achraf Hakimi, although he is only 26 years old, occupies third place after wearing the colors of four World Cup clubs: Real, Dortmund, Inter and PSG.
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From the top of his 2m01, Gustavo Ramalho (Fluminense) is the largest player in the tournament. It is followed by two other goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG, 2 m) and Mike Penders (Chelsea FC, 2 m). The largest field player is the Swedish striker Jonah Kusi-Asare (1m98), 17, who plays in Bayern.
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Measuring 1m60, Kaio César d’Al Hilal and Yeferson Soteldo, freshly arrived in Fluminense, are the smallest players in the tournament. Behind them: Siyabonga Mabena and Thato Sibiya (1m62, both in Mamelodi). Soteldo measures 41 centimeters less than his teammate Gustavo Ramalho.
