The second lowest Argentina squad in the World Cup 2022

Argentina registered up to 13 players shorter than 1.80 meters, corresponding to 50% of the squad, of which Alejandro Gomez is the lowest with 1.67 meters. They have nine players over 1.80 meters tall, accounting for 35% of the list, including three goalkeepers. Messi with 1.70 meters, is also only taller than Gomez. And goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez is the only player on the team who is taller than 1.90 meters, at 1.95 meters. Moreover, Argentina has only five players taller than the average height of Serbia.

Serbia has the best average height in the tournament, up to 1,873 meters. 25 of their 26 players are over 1.80 meters tall, and 10 are over 1.90 meters In other words, 96% of Serbian players are taller than the average Argentine height. They also have the tallest player in the tournament, goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic with 2.05 meters. The shortest player in this team is only 1.69 meters tall, is midfielder Andrija Zivkovic.

Next to Serbia in height are Denmark, Germany, France and Belgium respectively, all with an average height of over 1.85 meters. Iran has the best physique of the Asian teams, with an average height of 1.83 meters.

In addition to Vanja Milinkovic-Savic, the 2022 World Cup has two other players over 2 meters tall, both goalkeepers Thibaut Courtois (Belgium) 2 meters and Andries Noppert (Netherlands) 2.03 meters.

Excluding the goalkeeper, the tallest player in the 2022 World Cup is midfielder Harry Souttar (Australia), at 1.98 meters. The tallest striker in the tournament is Wout Weghorst (Netherlands) with 1.97 meters. That is also the index of the highest player in Asia at the tournament - Japanese goalkeeper Daniel Schmidt. If excluding the goalkeeper, the tallest Asian player in the 2022 World Cup is the Ghanaian-born Qatari striker Mohammed Muntari, with a parameter of 1.94 meters.

World Cup 2022 has only one player shorter than 1.6 meters, attacking midfielder Ilias Chair (Morocco) with an index of 1.58 meters. Second lowest is the mature defender from Chelsea and England youth team Tariq Lamptey. But the 1.64 meter tall player joins Ghana at the 2022 World Cup, because his parents are from this African country.

The lowest Asian player this period is midfielder Yuki Soma (Japan), only 1.66 meters. In addition, the native Sudanese defender of Qatar Musab Kheder is only the same height as Soma. Argentina captain Messi is taller than 25 other players at the tournament.

The average height of the 831 players participating in the tournament was 1,825 meters, an increase of 1 cm compared to the 2018 World Cup, of which the goalkeepers alone were 1.90 meters tall. Four years ago, Saudi Arabia was also the lowest team in the tournament.

Average height doesn't have much to do with team performance. In 2018, France won the throne with an average height of 1.81 meters, ranked 22nd in terms of body shape at the tournament.