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Can you name the countries of nationality of these athletes? Enter a country in the box below Correctly named countries will show up in the table below Click any empty Athlete or Country to answer for that location This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Ben You have 6 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 3905 TV Shows (U.S.) 3017 Broadway Opening Lines 2921 You Do Know Jack 1300 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1217 Same Last Name 1062 And more...
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Athlete	Country	Sport
Daisuke Matsuzaka		Baseball
Miguel Cabrera		Baseball
Adrian Beltre		Baseball
Carlos Lee		Baseball
Liván Hernández		Baseball
Alex Ovechkin		Hockey
Daniel Alfredsson		Hockey
Sidney Crosby		Hockey
Teemu Selanne		Hockey
Evgeni Nabokov		Hockey
Ernie Els		Golf
K.J. Choi		Golf
Geoff Ogilvy		Golf
Vijay Singh		Golf
Sergio García		Golf

Athlete	Country	Sport
Michael Ballack		Soccer
Mia Hamm		Soccer
David Beckham		Soccer
Miroslav Klose		Soccer
Cristiano Ronaldo		Soccer
Roger Federer		Tennis
Gael Monfils		Tennis
David Nalbandian		Tennis
Rafael Nadal		Tennis
Maria Sharapova		Tennis
Zydrunas Ilgauskas		Basketball
Steve Nash		Basketball
Yao Ming		Basketball
Dirk Nowitzki		Basketball
Mehmet Okur		Basketball

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	DanTravers:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:44 GMT	13 points
	Isn't Belgrade a city, not a country?

	quiztaker:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz, I hope to see some sequels. But I'd hardly call Puerto Rico a country, I know that they have their own olympic delegation, but they are legally a US Territory, their residents have US Citizenship and have a delegate in the US House of Representatives.

	dpetty1313:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:47 GMT	3 points
	So many better baseball players that could have been picked for Dominican Republic

	Antithesys:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:48 GMT	2 points
	Gotta be the first quiz that doesn't accept "united states".

	miniyoda008:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:49 GMT	5 points
	Yes, Belgrade is the capital of Serbia. Also, Miroslav Klose is German and Polish by birth, and plays for the German national team, so Germany should really be the answer for him.

	Alkkari:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:50 GMT	4 points
	Miroslav Klose is German, not Polish. Just born in Poland.

	Josh1307:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:51 GMT	3 points
	Yes Belgrade is a city so that is wrong. And Klose is German, not Polish. He was born in Poland but has played his whole career in Germany and is one of the German national team's top goalscorers. Nice idea for a quiz, but a very poor attempt of making it.

	SporcleAdmin:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:54 GMT	15 points
	Sorry, fixed the mistakes here, hopefully this gives you more of a sporting chance...oh I slay me.

	Tscheremi:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:56 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, Belgrade is the capital of Serbia, and the Miroslav Klose entry is a bit questionable (He Plays for and lives in Germany, but is of Polish origin)

	Kicking222:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:57 GMT	1 point
	What is with the answers page? It says I got ones right that I got wrong, ones wrong that I got right, and claims I got Livan Hernandez right before he was even a question on the quiz.

	Eagle3:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 21:00 GMT	2 points
	never would have guessed vijay singh is from fiji. then again golf puts me to sleep faster than tylonel pm

	bucknaked:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 21:01 GMT	3 points
	A little confusing because Evgeni Nabakov plays on the Russian national team because he was born in the USSR. Does anyone else think Russia should be a bonus answer or am I completely out of line here? Anyway, good idea for a quiz

	juusosieni:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 21:02 GMT	4 points
	Novak Djokovic isn't in the quiz right now. I got 26, missed 4 baseball players, but it's because I'm from Finland and baseball is very rare sport here. Nice to see I also got the least quessed, Nabokov.

	juusosieni:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 21:04 GMT	2 points
	Bucknaked: I tried Russia first too. Nabokov first played in Kazakhstan's team but changed to Russia.

	davebesag:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 21:11 GMT	-2 points
	I got all the golf/soccer/tennis bar Monfils (I did have to guess for Mia Hamm). I didn't bother for the rest as I hadn't heard of any of them. Am I going mad or has one of the tennis player questions changed from Kournikova to Sharapova (I'm not bothered as the former won almost nothing)?

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	cloycebox:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 21:28 GMT	10 points
	Steve Nash was actually born in Johannesburg, South Africa, although he's lived in Canada for most of his life.

	ad808:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 21:48 GMT	5 points
	Good idea for a quiz. Let's not gripe about which athletes were left out, because there's enough for four or five sequels. I managed to get most of them on the first try, which gave me enough time to guess at where David Nalbandian came from.

	bsd987:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	16 points
	it should show up as England for David Beckham. In soccer, these nationalities are separate and should be treated as such.

	bsd987:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 22:10 GMT	4 points
	@Ireland - I can sympathize with the desire for a more worldly quiz but basketball and hockey are olympic sports that have a large world-wide following. Even baseball used to be an olympic sport, although its reach has always been more limited. Just because those sports are not popular in Ireland does not detract from this quiz. If anything, I'd suggest adding auto racing.

	QuizKingJon:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 22:48 GMT	7 points
	@Ireland and bsd987 - both right. As a non-American with no interest in baseball I managed to guess based on the way the names sound. Would be good if the quiz had some extra points for other sports that are popular outside of the US (maybe rugby, cricket, F1, etc) but the US 4 should be in too!

	Hilly:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 22:52 GMT	-3 points
	got them all apart from the Baseball, Basketball, Hockey ones. never seen a game of never seen a game of Baseball and the only game of Basketball I've seen was on Space Jam. Bugs Bunny was MVP

	Kiribati:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 23:03 GMT	5 points
	A sequel with a wider variety of sports would be good. I'm all for having US sports, but some sports for others too would be good.

	Kiribati:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 23:04 GMT	2 points
	Also surprised more people got Nadal than Federer considering the former is relatively new and the latter has been a great tennis player for years. 5 years at number one and people still dont know where he is from!

	RandallPinkston:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 23:23 GMT	3 points
	@Kiribati: Nadal won his first major in 2005 and Federer in 2003, so I think it's fair to say that they've both been at the forefront of tennis for some time now. Right now the stats have Nadal at 78% and Federer at 71%, which isn't a huge discrepancy in my book.

	pbrown:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 23:34 GMT	1 point
	Isn't Steve Nash also from South Africa?

	ted:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 23:50 GMT	2 points
	I couldn't believe how many people knew Nabokov was from Kazakhstan until I read the comments and saw that Russia is accepted.

	JohnJF:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 00:14 GMT	4 points
	Russia is accepted for Nabokov? This is what I get for taking the quizzes early!

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	Kiribati:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 01:07 GMT	2 points
	@RandallPinkston yeah I agree Nadal has been around for a while, I was more meaning that he only hit world number one recently and Federer has been for years

	Archer16:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 01:09 GMT	1 point
	Got all but Singh, though I had to guess all the latin baseball players. I agree with Kiribati about making it a wider quiz - in particular adding T&F could be interesting - say Hicham El Guerrouj, Maria Mutola, Kenenise Bekele, Andreas Thorkildsen, Roman Sebrle, Ato Boldon - sticking just to some of the bigger names of the last decade or so and representing countries not currently present in this quiz. Adding the likes of Kim Collins and Churandy Martina would add even more variety.

	bmo1616:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 02:16 GMT	3 points
	Picking Adrian Beltre as the representatvie for the Dominican Republic is like picking Richie Sexson for USA.

	Jon:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 02:24 GMT	0 points
	odd grouping of athletes...27/30...why 3 germans...not enough known athletes to do just one country for each? sure there are.

	Archer16:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 02:29 GMT	1 point
	Addition: even sticking to football (soccer), first of all picking two players from the same country is unnecessary, and e.g. Eto'o, Drogba and going back a few years Dwight Yorke and George Weah would be more interesting choices.

	jesus:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 02:29 GMT	0 points
	@uncleronno: You're right Cristiano Ronaldo is the worlds greatest athlete. In opposite world.

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	Jelle:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 02:55 GMT	5 points
	Kind of like people who use the word Northan. No Belgians? I think this would be more fun if you had one from each country.

	notsobaldbull:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 04:06 GMT	-1 points
	Is there a better nickname out there than the Finnish Flash?

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