viz.
a field study, no. IV

The Measure
of a Team

All 1,248 players of the 2026 World Cup, lined up against the ruler. The squads average 182.7 cm — but a goalkeeper and a winger are nearly different species. Drag your eye down the wall.

📏 measure in

plate I · the lineup

Stand against the wall

One squad — or the whole tournament — drawn to scale, tallest to smallest. Show All players and every figure wears its national shirt. Re-sort, compact to averages, or flip to a true-zero ruler to see how small the famous differences really are.

thickness
★ Captains only

plate II · the anatomy

Why keepers tower

Every player as a single mark, sorted onto four shelves by role. The keepers' cloud sits a clear head above the rest — six centimetres over the midfielders. The tick is each role's average.

plate III · the census

The tallest nations

All 48 squads by average height — the dot is the mean, the line is the squad's full span from smallest to tallest. Click any nation to send it to the wall above.

plate IV · the proportion

Two figures, one circle

Stand any two inside Da Vinci's frame. The bracket measures the gap between their heads. The ruler follows your unit and the dramatic / true-zero setting above.

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