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  1. Maybe one color per country would make things more clearly. Many people go through statistics for a specific country and color coding them would help.

  2. TranslatorVarious857 on

    Hardly any Dutch players in La Liga is wild, considering the legacy Cruijff built.

  3. LongjumpingGate8859 on

    This is far less Brazilians than I would have expected. How are there sp.few brazilians?!

  4. cantonlautaro on

    Seems neither New World Latins or Ye Olde Worlde Latins favor playing in Germany. Or is it the Germans who dont favor Latins?

  5. Yeah, I didn’t think much about color consistency on this one just assigned colors sequentially. Thanks for pointing that out! I’ll make sure to keep colors consistent across countries in future charts. Appreciate the feedback

  6. UnusualAd6529 on

    its actually interesting that Spain and France import so many players from their former colonies while England doesn’t at all.

  7. I fully agree with every other comment suggesting color consistency between graph.

    And the only league where France is not the country with the most non-native players is La Liga, where Argentina has 3 more players ? Pretty impressive.

  8. It’s really something that in order to stay competitive every league but La Liga need to get talent abroad.

  9. Would love to see it as numbers of players in the league per inhabitants in the respective country.

    (Greetings from Denmark)

  10. ceelogreenicanth on

    So France is Unusually productive in top talent? And Germany and Italy has less top talent that almost never leaves their home country?

  11. This sub should be renamed into ‘DataCouldBeBeautiful’. Because these graphs are really badly done.

  12. notflyingdutchman on

    Pretty weird we have so many Dutch players in England but so little in Germany. I think top dutch players dont see the Bundesliga as a big step forwards but thats bs in my opinion

  13. purplecatchap on

    I thought Scottish, Welsh and Irish might have a bit more representation in the Premier League.

  14. redditor1235711 on

    It’d be great if you add a last chart with the sum of all players. I assume French players are the most but it’d be nice to confirm

  15. pirate-private on

    when hand-egg is called merican football, why don´t you just say international hand-egg instead of soccer?

  16. Your Color Code is the Same as the rating and makes this visualisation objectively worse. 

  17. MartyMcMartell on

    France is truly a talent producing powerhouse. Not only are they a serious exporter of their own players, but most of those players from Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mali etc, probably went through the French system.

  18. ThePhantomBacon on

    What’s the source for this data? I’m not saying it’s unbelievable, but Spain have nearly twice as many domestic players as any other league, and the total number of players on the graph is over the 500 players that would be officially registered in a season (576).

    It’s possible since La Liga allow players to play without registration under certain conditions, but when the Premier League has 436/500 possible players on this chart, it makes me wonder whether the charts are comparing apples to apples

  19. The Netherlands used to have a strong presence in La Liga, specifically Barcelona. Now they’re almost absent except for De Jong.

  20. There are about 20 Scottish players (fewer but still plenty Irish and Welsh players) in the Premier League

  21. I’m completely ignorant about football, but I’m surprised that there are less than 13 each of Scottish or Welsh players in the Premier League. 

  22. I wonder why Germany has the most Americans? Didn’t realize that many went overseas to play

  23. Tell me if I am wrong, but I believe that if Spanish players would be more willing to play outside Spain, they would compete with France for 2nd place in every league. It’s amazing to see so high percentage of players being local.

    Another reason could be that Spanish clubs are not very rich and there are very tight rules in La Liga so they are kinds forced to use more native players.

  24. mihaicostake on

    Do we know why La Liga has the highest percentage of its country’s nationality compared to other leagues?

  25. Interesting_Ad6562 on

    Why would you graph the number of players instead of the percentages? 

    This makes the graph part utterly useless, when the whole point is comparing ratios. 

    The colors are just the icing on the cake. 

  26. So that leaves 33.2% of Premier League players, around 200, from other countries in batches of no more than 12. That’s a lot. There must be dozens of single representatives, like Khusanov from Uzbekistan.

  27. VeridionData on

    interesting how Spaniards are third in Serie A, but Italian players are not making the top 10 in La Liga

    and now I realize that I can’t remember any good Italian player that played in la liga