Spain are the national team closest to the middle, with Barcelona the club team nearest. Barcelona also has the most players left in the competition with 15, followed by Lyon on 13 and Bayern Munich on 10.
Despite the large number of unattached players playing for teams in the group stages, only 1 unattached player is left in, Gaëlle Enganamouit of Cameroon. This may suggest that those teams who fielded unattached players may have had less player depth and had to use them.
After the knocked out teams have been removed, the out-lying teams are now Japan, China and Italy.
All of the teams I classified as "made of players from lots of clubs" are out, which might make it an interesting prognostic factor in future. Only one of the "players few from few clubs" teams is out, and that was Thailand, who were an oddity in that group because the national team manager set up a club for them so they could get paid.
If we look at the community view
The US and Australia are still one community, every one else is their own community. This would obviously have happened in the case of England and Scotland as Scotland were knocked out but I am not sure why Sweden and Nigeria are no longer together as one community when they were before.
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