This is why European teams have a high Fifa World Cup success rate

Among the main reasons is a diverse roster of talent - most European teams have players from various nationalities honing their skills in competitive, multicultural fields of European club football

Seven of the top 10 teams in the Fifa Coca Cola world rankings are European. Since 1990, when football started becoming a truly global sport in terms of TV viewership, teams from Europe have won the Jules Rimet trophy five times out of seven tournaments. There are many reasons for the high success rate this side of the Atlantic, principally the established institutional framework that underpins European football and the billions that are lavished on an innately opaque business that offers oligarchs, petro-princes and sundry entrepreneurs a handy no-questions-asked investment outlet.
 
But here’s another often overlooked contributory factor: the