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🇦🇺 HRUSTIC (7) and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 WATKINS (7) are the longest surnames out of all 1248 World Cup players that doesn't intersect itself on a phonetically sorted alphabet circle

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I designed an official Norwegian postage stamp — the first special edition they've put out in 22 years. It was presented by the Secretary General and President of the Norwegian Football Federation. 🇳🇴 Extremely proud of this. Seeing something I've made on my little computer become an official print

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🇦🇺 HRUSTIC (7) and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 WATKINS (7) are the longest surnames out of all 1248 World Cup players that doesn't intersect itself on a phonetically sorted alphabet circle

some other fun geographical facts about world cup players because i am also a factoid sicko: furthest born teammates: 🇳🇿new zealand's finn surman (cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) and francies de vries (christchurch 🇳🇿) - 19,077km (~181,685 football pitches laid end to end) antipodean pals: if he drilled a hole straight through his birthplace to the other side of the world, 🇳🇿's elijah just (born palmerston north) would find himself less than 60km from madrid, the birthplace of 🇲🇦 achraf hakimi, 🇪🇸 marcos llorente, and 🇪🇸 rodri players born in countries that no longer exist: sfr yugoslavia : 🇧🇦 edin džeko, 🇭🇷 ivan perišić, 🇭🇷 luka modrić, 🇭🇷 andrej kramarić, 🇭🇷 ante budimir fr yugoslavia : 🇧🇦 jovo lukić serbia and montenegro: 🇧🇦 samed baždar czechoslovakia : 🇨🇿 jaroslav zelený, 🇨🇿 vladimír coufal, 🇨🇿 vladimír darida zaire : 🇨🇩 chancel mbemba, 🇨🇩 fiston mayele soviet union : 🇺🇿farrukh sayfiev, 🇺🇿 utkir yusupov netherlands antilles : 🇨🇼 tahith chong players with the largest 'born nearby, represent countries far apart' ratio: 🇧🇪's kevin de bruyne and 🇦🇺's paul okon-engstler were born 4.8km apart (drongen, belgium ↔ gent, belgium) but represent countries >16,500km away from one another players uniquely representing their birth country at the world cup: 🇨🇮 alban lafont: burkina faso 🇫🇷 brice samba: rep. congo (i.e. not 🇨🇩) 🇫🇷 mike maignan: french guiana 🇭🇹 josué casimir: guadeloupe 🇦🇺 mohamed touré: guinea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 kieran tierney: isle of man 🇦🇺 awer mabil: kenya 🇨🇼 tahith chong: netherlands antilles 🇨🇦 tani oluwaseyi: nigeria 🇮🇪 roberto lopes: republic of ireland 🇹🇳 elias achouri: réunion 🇧🇦 samed baždar: serbia and montenegro 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 trevoh chalobah: sierra leone 🇶🇦 yusuf abdurisag: somalia 🇦🇺 nestory irankunda: tanzania 🇸🇳 nicolas jackson: the gambia 🇳🇿 finn surman: wales 🇳🇱 guus til: zambia

England v Ghana is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries' capitals sit right on the Prime Meridian England has London, where the Prime Meridian was fixed. Ghana has Accra, the only other world capital to sit on the zero degree longitude line. Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

🇳🇱 WEGHORST (8) is the longest surname out of all 1248 World Cup players that doesn't intersect itself on an alphabet circle