FC Barcelona outnumbers every other club in the World Cup quarter finals

FC Barcelona outnumbers every other club in the World Cup quarter finals

Club has 12 different players through to the last eight., a tally only matched by Manchester City

Only eight of the 32 teams that started the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand are still in contention, but Barça continues to be the most represented club, with its 12 quarter finalists only matched by Manchester City. 

12 players still Down Under

The Barça players are all there wearing the shirts of Spain, England or Sweden. The nine in the Spanish squad that now faces the Netherlands are Cata Coll, Laia Codina, Ona Batlle, Irene Paredes, María Pérez, Aitana Bonmatí, Alèxia Putellas, Salma Paralluelo and Mariona Caldentey.

Rolfö is still in the competition for Sweden, who next meet Japan, while Colombia is the upcoming challenge for Keira Walsh and Lucy Bronze with England.

Manchester City also has 12 quarter finalists. Half of them, Ellie Roebuck, Alex Greenwood, Esme Morgan, Laura Coombs, Chloe Kelly and Lauren Hemp, play for England, but there are also Alanna Kennedy and Mary Fowler of Australia, Kerstin Casparij and Jill Roord of Holland, Yui Hasegawa of Japan and Filippa Angeldahl of Sweden.

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