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#Seven players will play in their fourth FIFA World Cup™ and they are Claudio Reyna (USA), Oliver Kahn (Germany), Mohammed Al Deayea and Sami Al Jaber (both Saudi Arabia), Cafu and Ronaldo (both Brazil).

#USA goalkeeper Kasey Keller is the only player to have participated in the 1990 FIFA World Cup™ before missing out on the competition in his native country in 1994. Only Cafu, Al Deayea and Al Jaber actually played in all three earlier tournaments.

# In his fourth World cup appearance Mohammed Al Deayea has made 181 appearances for his country making him the most capped player of the World cup. Mexico's Claudio Suarez is second with 176 caps.

# Brazil on the other hand have appeared in all 17 of the past 17 World cups.

# Theo Walcott is the youngest player in the competition and will become the youngest ever goalscorer at a FIFA World Cup™ if he can score a goal. In the oldest stakes Tunisia's goalkeeper Ali Boumnijel (born 13.04.1966) will make it to fifth on the all-time list of oldest players.

# The average age of the 736 players taking part in this year's competition is 27 years and 4 months. In terms of oldest team on average, Czech Republic, France and Trinidad and Tobago share the honours at 29 years and 1 month, while Ghana are the youngest team with an average age of 25 years and 2 months.

# Japan and Mexico lead the pack for experience at international level with a team average of 45 caps, whilst newcomers Ghana are at the other end of the scale with an average 15 caps.