The Most International Teams At The World Cup

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Currently managed by Hervé Renard, the Moroccan national soccer team has the distinction of having the most foreign-born players of any country competing at the 2018 World Cup. The Lions of the Atlas have a sizeable quota of players born in other countries including Canada, France, the Netherlands and Spain. According to a new report from FIFA, 61.5 percent of the team was born in a different country. Senegal has the second-highest complement of foreign born players at 39.4 percent while Portugal comes third with 32.1 percent.

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This chart shows the teams that qualified for the World Cup by share of players born abroad.

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