Interesting Infographic on Player Migrations in the World Cup

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Three American born players are representing other countries, although all of them are pretty legit. One is a Japanese player who was born in New York and left as a toddler, one is Steven Beitashour, who would never cap with the US, and the other is Miguel Angel Ponce who was born in the US, lived there for one year, and then spent ages 11-15 in the US. I can understand each of their decisions.

For the US, we have Jones, Johnson, Chandler, Brooks, and Mix. I believe our only other foreign born players with significant experience are Feilhaber, Holden, Danny Williams, and Boyd.

It's interesting to look at the other nations. 27 of 32 countries have foreign born players. 16 Algerian players are born in France, Bosnia has 7 guys born outside the country, as does Croatia, and the Swiss have six.

In terms of exporters, France has 26 players for other countries, Germany has 12, Brazil has 5, the Swiss have 3, and Kosovo has 2. As previously mentioned, the US technically has 3.

This is obviously not perfect, as a guy born in a foreign country who moved to his current country at the age of 2 is counted as a foreigner (so if Bacon played for Iceland, he would be a foreigner for them, while Feilhaber would be considered Brazilian), and it doesn't factor in players who were born in their home country and then lived for years abroad (like Julian Green). If that was included, I bet we would have 12-13 Bosnians on this list, at least.