https://medium.freecodecamp.org/world-cup-visualized-the-most-valuable-players-648d36f2a0b1

With the Opta Sports fútbol dataset we can find out each time a player touched the ball — and where in the field they where at that time:

This dataset is not available publicly, but you can license it too by contacting Opta. Check out Eric Schmidt’s Analyzing the World Cup using Google Cloud series of posts for even more info on this.