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THE!POWER OF!URUGUAY

SOUTH AMERICA
DYLAN!KRAIN!EXPLAINS!HOW!THE!SMALL!SOUTH! AMERICAN!COUNTRY!PUNCH!ABOVE!THEIR!WEIGHT

Star quality: Uruguay produce top quality strikers like Luis Suarez and, left, Diego Forlan

IN LATE October 2018, I created a simple statistics sheet that displayed and compared the ability of countries to develop footballing talent, naming it the Player Development Index (PDI).
PDI scores are calculated by tallying the transfer market values of the top five most valuable players representing the country (according to transfermarkt. com) and dividing them by the country’s population.
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