Can you name the Sport of Highest Paid Athlete for each Country? by JPWright74

Can you name the Sport of Highest Paid Athlete for each Country?

created by JPWright74

Enter a Sport in the box below
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Click any empty Country or Sport to answer for that location
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Quiz accepts soccer (not football) to avoid confusion with American football. See Comments for missing countries
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Country	Sport	Athlete
Albania		Lorik Cana
Algeria		Nadir Belhadj
Andorra		Ildefons Lima
Angola		Manucho
Argentina		Carols Tevez
Armenia		Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Australia		Andrew Bogut
Austria		Thomas Vanek
Azerbaijan		Aleksandr Samedov
Bahrain		Abdullah Omar Ismail
Bangladesh		Shakib Al Hasan
Belarus		Alexander Hleb
Belgium		Vincent Kompany
Benin		Stephane Sessegnon
Bolivia		Marcelo Moreno
Bosnia		Edin Dzeko
Botswana		Mogogi Gabonamong
Brazil		Felipe Massa
Brunei		Craig Adams
Bulgaria		Dimitar Berbatov
Burkina Faso		Charles Kabore
Burundi		Saidi Ntibazonkiza
Cameroon		Samuel Eto'o
Canada		Jason Bay
Cape Verde		Cafu
Central African Republic		Eloge Enza Yanissi
Chad		Misdongarde Betoligar
Chile		Mark Gonzalez
China		Yao Ming
Colombia		Juan Pablo Montoya
Comoros		Kassim Abdallah
Costa Rica		Bryan Ruiz
Cote d'Ivoire		Yaya Toure
Croatia		Luka Modric
Cuba		Yuniesky Betancourt
Cyprus		Constandinos Charalambides
Czech Republic		Petr Cech
Dem Rep Congo		Herita Ilunga
Denmark		Daniel Agger
Djibouti		Ismail Ahmed Kadar Hassan
Dominican Republic		Alfonso Soriano
Ecuador		Antonio Valencia
Egypt		Mohamed Zidan/Mohamed Abu Treika (tie)
El Salvador		Arturo Alvarez
Equatorial Guinea		Rodolfo Bodipo
Eritrea		Zersenay Tadese
Estonia		Ragnar Klavan
Ethiopia		Tilahun Regassa
Fiji		Vijay Singh
Finland		Kiki Raikkonen
France		Franck Ribery
Gabon		Daniel Cousin
Gambia		Ousman Jallow
Georgia		Zaza Pachulia
Germany		Dirk Nowitzki

Country	Sport	Athlete
Ghana		Michael Essien
Greece		Theodoros Papaloukas
Guatemala		Carlos Ruiz
Guinea		Ibrahima Yattara
Guinea-Bissau		Almami Moreira
Haiti		Samuel Dalembert
Honduras		David Suazo
Hungary		Zoltan Gera
Iceland		Eidur Gudjohnsen
India		Ms Dhoni
Indonesia		Bambang Pamungkas
Iran		Hamed Haddadi
Iraq		Nashat Akram
Ireland		John O'Shea
Israel		Yossi Benayoun
Italy		Valentino Rossi
Jamaica		Ricardo Gardner
Japan		Ichiro Suzuki
Jordan		Odai Al-Saify
Kazakhstan		Nik Antropov
Kenya		McDonald Mariga
Kuwait		Bader Al-Mutwa
Kyrgyzstan		Mirlan Murzaev
Latvia		Andris Biedrins
Lebanon		Youssef Mohamad
Lesotho		Lehlohonolo Seema
Liberia		Sekou Oliseh
Libya		Tariq El Taib
Liechtenstein		Martin Stocklasa
Lithuania		Linas Kleiza
Luxembourg		Andy Schleck
Macedonia		Goran Pandev
Madagascar		Anicet Andrianantenaina
Malawi		Tamika Mkandawire
Malaysia		Lee Chong Wei
Mali		Frederic Kanoute
Malta		Michael Mifsud
Mauritania		Pascal Gourville
Maruitius		Diallo Guidileye
Mexico		Jorge De La Rosa
Moldova		Alexandru Epureanu
Mongolia		Hakuho
Montenegro		Mirko Vucinic
Morocco		Marouane Chamakh
Mozambique		Mate Simao Junior
Namibia		Collin Benjamin
Nepal		Santosh Sahukhala
Netherlands		Nigel De Jong
New Zealand		Russell Coutts
Nicaragua		Vicente Padilla
Niger		Alhassane Issoufou
Nigeria		John Mikel Obi
North Korea		An Yong-Hak/Jong Tae-Se (tie)
Norway		John Carew
Oman		Ali Al Habsi

Country	Sport	Athlete
Pakistan		Shahid Afridi
Panama		Carlos Lee
Papua New Guinea		Nev Costigan
Paraguay		Roque Santa Cruz
Peru		Claudio Pizarro
Philippines		Manny Pacquiao
Poland		Robert Kubica
Portugal		Cristiano Ronaldo
Qatar		Sebastian Soria Quintana
Republic of Congo		Christopher Samba
Romania		Cristian Chivu
Russia		Andrei Kirilenko
Rwanda		Olivier Karekezi
Samoa		David Tua
San Marino		Aldo Simoncini
Saudi Arabia		Mohammed Noor
Senegal		DeSagana Diop
Serbia		Peja Stojakovic
Seychelles		Michael Mancienne
Sierra Leone		Madieu Williams
Singapore		Mardan Mamat
Slovakia		Marian Hossa
Slovenia		Anze Kopitar
Somalia		Abdisalam Ibrahim
South Africa		Ernie Els
South Korea		Ji-Sung Park
Spain		Fernando Alonso
Sri Lanka		Mahela Jayawardene
Sudan		Luol Deng
Suriname		Clarence Seedorf
Swaziland		Tony Tsabedze
Sweden		Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Switzerland		Roger Federer
Syria		Sanharib Malki
Taiwan		Hong-Chih Kuo
Tajikistan		Farkhod Vasiev
Tanzania		Hasheem Thabeet
Thailand		Thongchai Jaidee
Togo		Emmanuel Adebayor
Tonga		Chris Kemoeatu
Trinidad and Tobago		Anthony Herrera
Tunisia		Karim Haggui
Turkey		Hedo Turkoglu
United Arab Emirates		Ismail Matar
Uganda		Mathias Kiwanuka
Ukraine		Vitali Klitschko
Uruguay		Diego Forlan
United Kingdom		Lewis Hamilton
United States of America		Alex Rodriguez
Uzbekistan		Maksim Shatskikh
Venezuela		Carlos Santana
Vietnam		Lee Nguyen
Zambia		Chris Katongo
Zimbabwe		Benjani Mwaruwari

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Sport of Highest Paid Athlete by Country Quiz

by JPWright74

Created Apr 22, 2011 in Geography
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	ChanandlerBong:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 15:26 GMT	2 points
	Inb4footballnotsoccer

	LinuxLinus:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 15:33 GMT	1 point
	Accept "football" for football . . . er, soccer.

	JPWright74:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 15:44 GMT	3 points
	No pros from Afghanistan, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Salaries not available for Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, Cambodia, Dominica, East Timor, Grenada, Mauritus, Micronesia, Monaco, Myanmar, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grendadines, Turkmenistan, or Yemen.

	JPWright74:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 15:45 GMT	3 points
	I've changed the instructions to ask for soccer - not because I'm a Yank, but to avoid confusion with American Football

	thebronze:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 16:49 GMT	2 points
	I would accept Football as an answer, even if you keep soccer as the answer which shows up... seeing as the whole world aside from the US and Canada call it Football...

	CJ_Threepwood:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 21:43 GMT	4 points
	Some of the answers are too specific. Cycling, road cycling, cycle racing, etc. should all be acceptable alternatives. The same goes for F1, motor racing, etc.

	diving:	Apr 23rd, 2011 at 02:02 GMT	4 points
	thebronze - you're forgetting all the countries that don't speak English, and the many countries that use both terms like Australia and New Zealand which have their own forms of football and South Africa, the home of the Premier Soccer League

	hilco:	Apr 23rd, 2011 at 11:12 GMT	-2 points
	There are 103 "soccer" answers vs. 4 "football" answers. So why not change "Quiz accepts soccer (not football) to avoid confusion with American football." to "Quiz accepts american (or australian) football (not football) to avoid confusion with football (soccer)."?