Team Scandinavia for the World Cup

[Canadice]

Inspired by @Aleris, I wanted to look at how Team Scandinavia would perform in this imaginary World Cup tournament. I've prioritized the countries that has been historically part of the Scandinavian region, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and because of a small player pool players from Finland are also part of the eligible players to be chosen.

My selected starting roster:

Team	Name	Country	Position	TPE
	Jannik Andersen	Denmark	GK	1257
	Juha Jarvinen	Finland	Defender	982
	Linnea Nesse	Norway	Defender	1235
	Leif Physt	Denmark	Defender	760
	Mikko Järvälä	Finland	Defender	729
	Hoban Washburne	Finland	Defender	621
	Henrik Lind	Sweden	Midfielder	1412
	Helena Söderberg	Sweden	Midfielder	1379
	Patrik Björkås	Sweden	Midfielder	951
	Aimo Tälli	Finland	Midfielder	1084
	Slatin Imbrimovick	Sweden	Forward	627

Given the depth at the back, Scandinavia would most likely be structured in a 5-4-1 formation with Nesse and Jarvinen playing on the wingback position with more of an offensive focus. Henrik Lind will move up to his original position as a defensive midfielder as there is an abundance of options in the central defense position with Physt, Järvälä, and Washburne. Söderberg and Tälli are positioned wide on the central midfield position with an attacking role to bring supporting runs or passing opportunities with the lone striker Imbrimovick while Björkås places himself more stationary in the middle winning and distributing the ball up the field.

The starting eleven has only produced 10 goals on 158 combined appearances but has contributed 17 assists during the same period and can boast a 85% passing rate which is on par for a good team. In the air the team is relatively strong, with around 80% of the headers won and on the ground the successful tackles are about the same (80%). The team is also very clean in their tackles, only accruing 17 yellow cards so they will be a tough opponent to get past.

The distribution of player nationalities is heavily skewed towards USA and somewhat Canada so they would be able to produce a great team but I think that Scandinavia has a good chance of getting far in any international tournament. Apart from the American juggernaut, an African team with the majority of Zambian players or any combination of France/Spain/Germany/Italy will probably be able to create a very strong team, but that's for another user to do.

[Aleris]

And I thought the British Isles had a stacked D. Lol. This team is scary

[retuperkele]

Torille

[Reno]

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