Qatar 2022/Final: head-to-head, Argentina - France, Sunday 18/12/2022 (16:00 CET)

With a squad estimated to be worth €1.003bn according to the website Transfermarkt (as of 16/12/2022), the French team's players are valued at 55.5% more than those of Argentina (€645 million), as the two nations prepare to face each other in the final of the 2022 World Cup at the Lusail Stadium in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday 18/12/2022 (kick-off at 16:00 CET).

The French Football Federation (FFF), chaired by Noël Le Graët since June 2011, has "more than 15,000 clubs" with 2.1 million members as of 09/12/2022, while the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA), headed by Claudio Tapia since March 2017, has just over 3,500 affiliated clubs with "around 900,000 players."

On social media (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, as of 01/12/2022), the European team is the second most followed of the 32 teams competing in the tournament, with 32.5 million followers, 1.9 times more than their South American rivals, who are ranked fifth with just over 17 million.

Third in the FIFA rankings, the "Albiceleste", winners of the World Cup in 1978 and 1986, are one place ahead of "Les Blues", fourth and…