Руслан Малиновский (слева) стал основным игроком Генка
It's no secret that Brazil is the main exporter of football talents in the world. Currently, according to the portal Football-observatory. Com, 1,202 immigrants from the homeland of the Pentacampins perform in clubs outside their native country. The second in this list is France - 781 footballers, and closes the top three Argentina - 753 masters of the leather ball are employed abroad.
It is interesting that Ukraine takes 16th place in this list - 192 of our compatriots perform in foreign clubs, 97% of them in the countries that are members of UEFA.
Top-50 major football exporters were hit by two more representatives of the former USSR. Russia ranks 26th with 136 players playing abroad (96% in the countries of UEFA), and Georgia - 43rd (75 players, 95% in UEFA countries).