Club World Cup .. large fans and heavy goals in the group stage

Thursday, the group stage in the FIFA FIFA World Cup, hosted by the United States until July 13, concluded Thursday, and its matches witnessed a public presence that exceeded one and a half million spectators in 12 stadiums and scored 144 goals.
The International Federation of the game (FIFA) published a set of statistics for the group stage in the competition, noting that the total mass attendance in the stadiums amounted to 1.667,819 spectators, with an average of 34,746 spectators per game.
The match between Paris Saint -Germain, European champion and Atletico Madrid at the Rose Paul stadium in Los Angeles, witnessed the largest public presence of 80,619 spectators, while 70,248 spectators followed the confrontation of Real Madrid and Mexican Pushka in Charlotte.
In third place, the match between Real Madrid and the Austrian Selzburg (64.811), followed by the German Munich and Boca Juniors Argentine at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami (63,587), while the Real Madrid and Saudi Hilal match attended 62,415 spectators.
Of the six continental federations represented by the 32 clubs, four of which are still represented in the exclusionary roles.
Nine clubs of Europe are the final price, while a representative of South America is certainly qualified for the quarter -finals, given that two South American clubs qualifying for the exclusionary roles (Brazilian duo Palmeras and Bootavogo) meet in a pure Brazilian confrontation in Philadelphia on Saturday.
The 16 clubs are qualified for ten countries, and Brazil is considered the best, as four of their clubs qualified for the exclusionary roles. As for the number of Brazilian players in the stages of the knockout, it is 117, followed by Italy with 35 players, then Germany (34), while the rest represents 49 other nationalities.
All, players of 72 nationalities were present on the field, and the list of countries represented again Brazil and Argentina again topped with 91 and 73 successive.
As for the third and broader -ranked country from Europe, it is Portugal (32 players), followed by Spain, which is represented with 31 players.
Continuously, the most representative countries were: North, Central and Caribbean (Mexico, 26 players), Africa (Morocco 22), Oceania (New Zealand 22), and Asia (South Korea 18).
On the list of countries with the largest number of scorers in the competition, Brazil is at the top of the list with 18, a little ahead of the Argentine neighbor (17), followed by France (11) out of 38 countries that hold the scorers with their nationalities.
Thanks to Al Ain Al Ain Emirati victory over Wydad Moroccan 2-1 in the last Group Seven matches, all participating clubs have succeeded in finding their way to the competitors’ goal in the group stage, which witnessed clubs from five continents and 15 countries in at least one match.
Thanks to a total toll of 144 goals in 48 games in the group stage, which was hosted by 12 stadiums throughout the United States of America, the competition turned into an interesting competitive event that witnessed an average scoring of 3 goals per game.
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