2015 World XI per country: 68 teams

FIFPro invited professional footballers in a record number of 68 countries worldwide to participate in the vote for the 2015 FIFA FIFPro World XI. That resulted in the ‘global’ World XI, and also in 68 ‘national’ World XI’s.

In each country, players have their preferences. For example in Belgium, Kevin De Bruyne made the World XI. The Moroccans picked Mehdi Benatia, in Serbia the footballers chose Nemanja Matic.

In Ivory Coast the players preferred Yaya Touré and Serge Aurier, in Gabon Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is part of the team, in Egypt Mohammed Salah even received more votes than Cristiano Ronaldo, and in Chile they included their Copa America winners Claudio Bravo, Gary Medel, Arturo Vidal and Alexis Sanchez.

Chile was one of five countries that have five players in their national World XI who did not make the global World XI. Germany, Ghana, Ireland and Scotland are the others.

Only one country has more different players, Korea with six. The Koreans elected Giorgio Chiellini, Nicolás Otamendi, David Alaba, Yaya Touré, Gareth Bale and Robert Lewandoswki.

Three countries have World XI’s that are identical to the real World XI: Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece.

Below a summary of the 68 World XI’s as voted per country. From Argentina to Zimbabwe, note the similarities and the differences.
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Argentina	Australia	Austria	Belgium
Bolivia	Botswana	Brazil	Bulgaria
Cameroon	Chile	Colombia	Costa Rica
Côte-d'Ivoire	Croatia	Cyprus	Czech Republic
Denmark	DR Congo	Ecuador	Egypt
England	Finland	France	Gabon
Germany	Ghana	Greece	Guatemala
Hungary	India	Indonesia	Ireland
Israel	Italy	Japan	Kazakhstan
Kenya	Malaysia	Malta	Mexico
Montenegro	Morocco	Namibia	The Netherlands
New Zealand	Norway	PalestiNa	Paraguay
Peru	Poland	Portugal	Romania
Russia	Scotland	Serbia	Singapore
Slovenia	South Africa	South Korea	Spain
Sweden	Switzerland	Tunisia	Ukraine
United States	Uruguay	Venezuela	Zimbabwe

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