2018 World Cup Quarterfinal Network Diagrams

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Note how far Russia are from everyone else.

Manchester City remain the team with the most players (11) but they are now followed by Spurs (9) and Paris Saint Germain and Manchester United (8 each). Real Madrid and Barcelona's numbers dropped rapidly and suddenly. I think Russia are responsible ;)

France or Croatia are the national side nearest the middle. It's very hard to tell which is the closest given how far away all the teams are from the centre, mostly because Russia and Sweden are so far away from other teams that it distorts the graph.

Monaco are the club side nearest the middle.

When Shinji Okazi was removed from the network (because of Japan's sad loss) it separated Belgium from England. I think that's because the weight of Japan was pulling England down into Belgium.





All 8 countries are their own communities. It's interesting to see which teams have been linked to which countries. Barcelona, Real Madrid and Man City are all "Brazilian", while Spurs, United and Liverpool are English. Chelsea are "Belgian" while Krasnodar are "Swedish", which is probably news to them. Atletico Madrid are Uruguayan, but that at least makes sense.