The most creative Fifa World Cup football portraits

The style of official football portraits often shows players standing stoically, looking into the middle distance.

As the World Cup kicks off in Russia, we highlight some of the photographers and footballers who got a little creative in the studio when shooting their official portraits, expressing their individual personalities.

Jose Giminez of Uruguay

Mikel John Obi of Nigeria

Thorgan Hazard of Belgium

Victor Moses of Nigeria

Olafur Skulason of Iceland

Ederson of Brazil

William Troost-Ekong of Nigeria

Cristian Ansaldi of Argentina

Yvon Mvogo of Switzerland

Raul Jimenez of Mexico

Marcelo Brozovic of Croatia

Mats Hummels and Ilkay Guendogan of Germany

James Rodriguez of Colombia

Adnan Januzaj of Belgium

Pontus Jansson of Sweden

Shinji Kagawa of Japan

Lasse Schoene of Denmark

Ronald Matarrita of Costa Rica

Andreas Christensen of Denmark

Randall Azofeifa of Costa Rica

Nemanja Matic of Serbia

Radamel Falcao of Colombia

Juan Cuadrado, Yerry Mina and Miguel Borja of Colombia

Kieran Trippier of England

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