Quiz! Can you name all 53 World Cup winners to have played in the Premier League?

By Alex Reid
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It’s every player to own a World Cup winner's medal and played a match in England’s top division since 1992/93. How many can you recall?

Paul Pogba World Cup

France’s World Cup-winning squad from this summer featured eight players who’ve played a Premier League game at some point in their careers. But that’s nothing compared to the 1998 vintage.

Of that 23-man France squad, 16 featured in the Premier League. Mondieu! Compare that to Italy’s World Cup winners from 2006 or the triumphant Brazil side back in 1994, which both featured just one player who’d ever play(ed) in England’s top flight.

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Alex Reid
Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.