#2 What do the numbers mean? Number 6, 8, 10, and all the rest
We answer the question we get asked the most. By far:
What do the numbers mean?
He's a great number 6, that number 8 is up and down the field, he's an ideal number 9, and so on.
We offer a guide to what each of the numbers means, what different numbers mean in different countries (e.g. a German 6 is a Brazilian 5), why very few players actually wear these numbers anymore, and how we came by this odd numbers-based positional system to begin with.
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