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European nations will finish 2018 in the top 50 of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking – the highest-ever total for a continent at the end of a calendar year. Central to the statistic was six of the eight quarter-finalists – and all four of the semi-finalists – coming from the ‘Old Continent’ at Russia 2018. France ensured that six successive Mover of the Year awards have gone to Europe.