World Cup 2018: Quirky Facts about the players in the competition

#6 The heaviest player

"You think you can get me off the ball?"

Jannik Vestergaard tops yet again, with his tall frame not really letting us know how heavy he is. At 216lbs (97 kg), attackers will have a tough time going around Vestergaard, who is also 1.98m tall.

British defender Harry Maguire shares the record with Vestergaard. At 1.93m, Macguire who currently plays for Leicester City is also quite a tall player and one of England's first-choice centre-backs, making him a tough player to beat.

In a strange factoid, British forward Harry Kane also weighs a close 96 kgs and is one of the heaviest players going into the World Cup. Post an injury that kept him out of the game for more than three months, Harry Kane has returned not only with strong legs but also a heavier body, it seems. Kane must be keen not to let his weight-gain affect England's long-ball games this summer at Russia.

As the ball rolls at Moscow in less than seven days, a long wait of nearly four years comes to an end. Let us all look forward a whole lot of player battles, tense competitions, more facts and trivia, statistics and number-crunching. Here's to yet another World Cup season!