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On the first match-free day of this year’s Football (Soccer) World Cup<\/a> in Brazil, one incident dominates the headlines while all fans anticipate the knock-out stage. It’s Luis Su\u00e1rez<\/a> and his bite into his opponent Giorgio Chiellini\u2019s shoulder that keep making the headlines. Here comes the cartographic perspective on the topic: We made all efforts to analyse all available data on this year’s bite incidents (so far) at the World Cup and ended up with the following map representation of this highly complex data set. The map makes this data immediately accessible to the lay-person showing from which country players have been biting their opponents and which countries are the most affected by bite attacks of other teams. The evidence is hardly deniable – there is a highly unequal distribution emerging in these maps:<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/a>
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\nMore football\/soccer-related maps on this blog can be found here<\/a>. For the slightly less sports-interested people, you may find other more-or-less serious map oddities<\/a> interesting.<\/p>\n

The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Please contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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