Conor O'Neill

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And it is genuinely a pretty good barometer of league strength.

The top five leagues represented is, you know, the traditional quote unquote top five.

But after that, the quality hollows out pretty fast.

I think it's 40% from those top five leagues.

In terms of actual profiles of the squads themselves, the average age is about 27.

So kind of most squads build their teams around peak age players, which makes sense.

Apart from Panama, who are the elder statesmen at the age of 30.

It feels like it's kind of the end of this Argentinian cycle.

They're kind of on the older end of the spectrum as well, have the least changed squad since last time.

So yeah, some interesting numbers there.

Well, in terms of personnel, they're actually shaping up quite similarly as they did last time.

17 of that 26 still remain, which is the highest in the tournament along with Switzerland.

So the same core is there.

I suppose the one argument you would make about last time is they were never really convincing at any stage in that World Cup.

They kind of limped through against Australia.

You know, that Netherlands game, they needed penalties.

Even France, there was kind of a case that they were really underwhelming in the final themselves.

And there is sort of a champion's curse at World Cups.

Apart from, like, France sort of booked the train last time by reaching the final before France went down to the group stage.

I think that's, you know, almost impossible with the third places going through this time and Argentina having a relatively straightforward group.

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