Nationality of every footballer who has been on a winning Champions League or European Cup team Quiz

Can you name the nationality of every footballer who has been on a winning Champions League or European Cup team?

created by Cestrian

Enter a nationality in the box below
Correctly named nationalities will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Players who weren't in the final squad but played earlier rounds aren't counted. Unused substitutes are. Not all nations are sovereign or still exist.
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First Winner	Country	Example
1956		Francisco Gento
1956		Alfredo di Stéfano
1957		Raymond Kopa
1958		José Santamaría
1960		Ferenc Puskás
1960		Jair da Costa
1961		Eusébio
1963		Víctor Benítez
1963		Giovanni Trapattoni
1967		Jimmy Johnstone
1968		Bobby Charlton
1968		Tony Dunne
1968		George Best

First Winner	Country	Example
1969		Franz Beckenbauer
1969		Henrik Larsson
1970		Johan Cruijff
1970		Franz Hasil
1971		Velibor Vasović
1974		Michael Laudrup
1977		Ryan Giggs
1984		Bruce Grobbelaar
1985		Massimo Bonini
1985		Zbigniew Boniek
1986		Helmuth Duckadam
1987		Rabah Madjer
1988		Eric Gerets

First Winner	Country	Example
1992		Hristo Stoichkov
1993		Alen Bokšić
1993		Abedi Pelé
1995		Jari Litmanen
1995		Nwankwo Kanu
1997		Stephane Chapuisat
1999		Ole Gunnar Solskjær
1999		Dwight Yorke
2000		Geremi
2000		Hasan Salihamidžić
2001		Roque Santa Cruz
2003		Andriy Shevchenko
2003		Kakha Kaladze

First Winner	Country	Example
2004		Edgaras Jankauskas
2004		Benni McCarthy
2004		Dmitri Alenichev
2005		Harry Kewell
2005		Vladimír Smicer
2005		Djimi Traoré
2006		Rafael Márquez
2008		Nemanja Vidić
2009		Eidur Gudjohnsen
2009		Yaya Touré
2010		Iván Córdoba
2010		Goran Pandev
2010		McDonald Mariga

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Champions League Nationalities Quiz

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Created Dec 9, 2010 in Sports
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	fraac:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 16:39 GMT		4 points
	Most surprising absence - Turkey? USA?

	Statto2:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 16:44 GMT		11 points
	@cb8gt - John Paul II was a goalkeeper but was a little past his best by the time he qualified to play for Vatican City!

	SurfChad:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 17:54 GMT		13 points
	Where is South Korea (Park Ji-Sung)?

	guide:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 19:24 GMT		1 point
	@SurfChad: See earlier comments—he wasn't in the squad for the final.

	Cestrian:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 21:47 GMT		4 points
	Hey, I got a quiz published. How about that. Thanks, Sporcle. Bit gutted I couldn't close in further on dudemanbearpig's record of 216 quizzes without a publish but 161 is a good try, I can be happy with that.

	sam2085:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 22:37 GMT		16 points
	Why is Yugoslav an option? Why not East German, West German, or Soviet then?

	frankthepieking:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 22:49 GMT		1 point
	To avoid confusion, maybe add the year that the example player won it.

	Cestrian:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 09:13 GMT		4 points
	Soviet and East german would be options had a soviet or east german player won the European Cup but they didn't. West Germany is not a seperate country, it was just an english language nickname for the Federal Republic of Germany or Bundesrepublik during the cold war era. That country is now most commonly known as Germany, though west german is an accepted answer.

	KevinMillar3:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 13:08 GMT		1 point
	Not to be part of pedants corner, but Craig Johnston was Australian, and won a European Cup medal in 1984, before Harry Kewells "contribution" in the 05 final...

	Cestrian:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 13:52 GMT		10 points
	Bloody Johnston, he comes up on nearly every quiz I've ever made. Suffice to say despite being born in South Africa and having Australian parents, I consider him to be English in a footballing sense due to his involvement with the English u21s, English B side and also accepting a call up with the full english squad though never made it to the actual pitch for them. And he refused any calls to play for Australia by saying "playing football for Australia as like surfing for England". In the same way I wouldn't count John Barnes as Jamaican or Mark Lawrenson as English. It's the footballing nationality not actual nationality I'm looking for

	ronny_jubber:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 15:19 GMT		1 point
	@Cestrian Good quiz and I agree with you on the Craig Johnston issue. But by the same token Alfredo di Stefano shouldn't be Argentinian. He was born there but he last played for the Argentinian national side in 1947. He then played a few times for Colombia although they were not recognised by Fifa at the time, and then acquired Spanish citizenship in 1956 before the European Cup Final, eventually playing for Spain. Incidentally he had an Irish grandmother, so was eligible to play for Ireland as well, making him in my eyes the Phil Babb of his day.

	Cestrian:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 15:55 GMT		1 point
	Di Stefano did play for Argentina internationally though, if not anywhere near as many times as he played for Spain, which makes it slightly different than Johnston. It's debateable I agree but if we call him Spanish do we have to call Puskas Spanish too because of the handful of spanish caps he earned at Real Madrid after a lifetime of playing for Hungary previously?

	ronny_jubber:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 16:05 GMT		1 point
	No, Puskas won the European cup as a Hungarian in 1960. He didn't get Spanish citizenship until either 1961 or 62, so never won it as a Spaniard (although I think he got a medal in 1966 for playing in an earlier round). Di Stefano was a Spanish citizen prior to playing in the 1956 final.

	Cestrian:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 16:24 GMT		1 point
	But neither Puskas or Di Stefano played a game for the Spanish football team until after they won their first European Cups, and both of them had played for their countries of birth a few years previously (4 for Puskas, 9 for di Stefano) so that's what they're counted as. It's an arbitary decision on my part to some extent, I guess.

	Cubby:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 16:32 GMT		-3 points
	As a sporcler who knows absolutely NOTHING about football, but knows the countries of the world, I was a bit stumped at first regarding England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland being separate. On the geography quizzes, they are all listed under United Kingdom. But, I got there in the end.

	ronny_jubber:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 16:37 GMT		1 point
	Yes but Spain only played one match, a friendly, between Di Stefano becoming a Spanish citizen and him making his debut for Spain. Incidentally, I just realised that this would make an excellent quiz question - who started a successful European Cup campaign as an Argentinian and ended it as a Spaniard?

	A5l9:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 16:46 GMT		-3 points
	No Belarus? Aleksandr Hleb?

	Cestrian:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 17:07 GMT		5 points
	Like Ji-Sung Park he wasn't in the matchday squad for the final so he doesn't count. Theoretically I could try to find and trawl through the squads of the winners in every game they played but it strikes me as unfair to accept I dunno Angola because Ferguson put Manucho on the bench for a dead rubber champions league group stage match once. If you don't make the 18 for the final, you don't count.

	Statto2:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 20:51 GMT		3 points
	@A5I9 - apparently Aleksandr Hleb wasn't in the Barca squad for the 2009 Champion's League final.

	jordoz:	Dec 6th, 2011 at 01:06 GMT		0 points
	OK so I'm confused. There's no way Ryan Giggs, Michael Laudrup or Henrik Larsson won the European Cup in the years you mention, although other players of their nationalities (Joe Jones, Johnny Hansen & Kurt Hamrin) did. Why haven't you just put the name of the first player to do this instead of an "example" of a player of this nationality who won the trophy but wasn't the first? If this is deliberate I really don't get it.

	CarlWhittaker:	Dec 6th, 2011 at 10:32 GMT		-1 points
	Giggs won it in 1977? What?

	Cestrian:	Dec 6th, 2011 at 13:01 GMT		2 points
	There is no link between the first column (when the first winner was) and the third (an example of a player who won it). In fact, the third column was only added at request because people were curious as to who the zimbabwean and san marinese players were. It's not always the first because I thought if you're thinking "who was the welsh guy to win it?", then Giggs is more useful than Jones at triggering that "oh him of course" reaction same with Salihamidžić (who played the full final) versus Baljić (who was an usued sub) and Cruyff over Israel etc, etc.

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	Josegiraffio:	Dec 10th, 2011 at 14:47 GMT		-2 points
	1977 Joey Jones won for Wales with Liverpool, and not Ryan Giggs

	Turbo_McKwek:	Dec 16th, 2011 at 10:32 GMT		2 points
	Cool quiz. I just don't agree with your argument that you had to use Cruyff over Israel for 1970. Please name one of the Feyenoord players that won it, Willem Van Hanegem for example. Maybe not as famous as Cruyff, but still widely considered one of the top three Dutch players ever (along with Cruyff and Van Basten).

	Mikaelba:	Jan 18th, 2012 at 15:54 GMT		1 point
	In the archived comments, you say that Conny Torstensson was the first Danish player to win with Bayern in 1974. Torstensson was Swedish, the Danish player in the team was Johnny Hansen.