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Stade Rennais at the World Cup

Watching France and Senegal last week, I couldn’t help but notice that four of the 22 starters on the pitch had played for Stade Rennais – Dembélé, Doué, Sarr and Mendy. I combed through the full squad lists for every national team to see how many more I could find. The results were pretty remarkable: I counted 20 current or former Stade Rennais players at the World Cup. Four players (Dembélé, the Doué brothers, Moreira) came through the youth academy. 13 of the 48 teams (over one in four!) at the tournament have at least one player with Rennes connections. Here’s the list. Did I miss anyone?

Group B
Switzerland: Breel Embolo

Group C
Brazil: Raphinha

Group E
Ivory Coast: Seko Fofana, Guéla Doué

Group G
Belgium: Jérémy Doku, Arthur Theate

Group H
Cape Verde: Steven Moreira

Group I
France: Ousmane Dembélé, Désiré Doué, Brice Samba
Senegal: Ismaïla Sarr, Édouard Mendy
Norway: Leo Østigård

Group J
Algeria: Amine Gouiri, Ramy Bensebaini
Jordan: Mousa Al-Tamari

Group K
Colombia: Juan Fernando Quintero

Group L
England: Djed Spence
Ghana: Kamaldeen Sulemana, Alidu Seidu

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Re: Stade Rennais at the World Cup

Group B
Switzerland: Fabian Rieder

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Re: Stade Rennais at the World Cup

Nicely done. FYI, we already have a pretty exhaustive page here https://forum.stade-rennais-online.com/ … 1#p1661771