Can you name the world cup team by their top-scoring player?

created by mybeaglebelle

Enter a team in the box below
Correctly named teams will show up below
Click any empty Top Scorer or Team to answer for that location
Please use country name, not team nickname. When multiple players are tied for the team lead, only one is selected. No goals were scored by Algeria or Honduras.
Source: FIFA.com World Cup Stats

You have 7 minutes to guess after you click the button below.

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Top Scorer	Team	Goals Scored
Samuel Eto'o		2
Vasileios Torosidis		1
Tiago		2
Enrique Vera		1
Brett Holman		2
Steven Gerrard		1
Gelson Fernandes		1
Nicklas Bendtner		1
David Villa		5
Asamoah Gyan		3
Keisuke Honda		2
Valter Birsa		1
Javier Hernandez		2
Landon Donovan		3
Florent Malouda		1

Top Scorer	Team	Goals Scored
Mark Gonzalez		1
Kalu Uche		2
Milan Jovanovic		1
Gonzalo Higuain		4
Lee Chung Yong		2
Antonio Di Natale		1
Siphiwe Tshabalala		1
Luis Fabiano		3
Wesley Sneijder		5
Robert Vittek		4
Ji Yun Nam		1
Didier Drogba		1
Shane Smeltz		1
Thomas Mueller		5
Diego Forlan		5

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World Cup by Top Goal Scorer (2010) Quiz

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Created by: mybeaglebelle -
Contributed: July 9th, 2010
Published: July 11th, 2010
Category: Sports
Plays: 70,899

Tags: Soccer Quizzes, World Quizzes, top, goal, scorer, cup, score, 2010, World Cup, Editor Pick, team, player

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	leppyfresh:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 04:12 GMT	6 points
	Great quiz. Can't wait till the game. 5 orbs.

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	CaptainEasychord:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 05:16 GMT	73 points
	@whoismikejones: I'll let the greeks know that they need more distinctive names than 'vasileios torosidis'...

	disseminator:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 05:25 GMT	27 points
	rough for algeria and honduras - everyone tied at zero goals... :(

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	eurythmech:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 06:52 GMT	26 points
	The only thing more retarded than creating this quiz before the cup is finished would be the guy who made the quiz weeks earlier. It's not good to be first if you're too early people!

	ekweizn:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 08:13 GMT	1 point
	A similar quiz, except using international goals. Hooray for larger sample sizes :-P http://www.sporcle.com/games/ekweizn/2010_WC_players

	JohnJF:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 10:43 GMT	16 points
	@MovieDynamic: Given that two teams didn't make the cut, highest scoring can equal zero. If you're going to make a snide and condescending comment designed purely to offend Sporclers, at least make it accurate.

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	unification:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 11:58 GMT	30 points
	@MovieDynamic: If you're not interested in this quiz, don't play it. I don't play the games about pass percentages in the NFL, so stop trolling the football quizzes as you constantly seem to and comment on the quizzes you want to play.

	mybeaglebelle:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 12:11 GMT	20 points
	I can't believe this got published! Thanks to everyone who played!

	wolver:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 13:27 GMT	10 points
	Good quiz, might have been cool to see a version where you guess the top scorers from the countries though, not the other way round.

	heinzcomrade:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 13:52 GMT	4 points
	Cool quiz but a day too early. In 1966 Hurst went from 1 goal to 4 to become England's top scorer ahead of Charlton and Hunt. Who's to say a Dutch or Spanish player won't do the same?

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	mybeaglebelle:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 16:40 GMT	5 points
	@Wolver; I thought about that, but I thought people would have a hard time spelling names like "Tshabalala." @Heinzcomrade; If neede the changes will be made. But both David Villa and Wesley Sneijder have 5 goals and it's unlikely that anyone on their respective teams will catch them. @WVUIE97; South Korea should work. @Wheaton Brando; No, yours is just world cup players, not top goal scorers.

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	mybeaglebelle:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 17:44 GMT	18 points
	You know you've made it in Sporcle when MovieDynamic comments on your quiz.

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	Muz:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 18:09 GMT	5 points
	@MovieDynamic - no you didn't say much at all as usual. But doesn't the fact that you went into the quiz, opened the comments and then made two yourself kind of implies it, doesn't it? And we're all really interested in what you have to say, I'm sure!

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	1447:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 01:44 GMT	7 points
	You don't really forget a name like Siphiwe Tshabalala. Spelling it may be a challenge, however.

	CaptainCheeky:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 01:46 GMT	20 points
	Mueller is the substitute for keyboards/typesets that don't support an umlaut. ue = ü

	Beefy:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 02:19 GMT	9 points
	@yankeespurs101: The Islamic religion spread to West Africa before the year 1000 AD, and became very the dominant religion of West Africa for hundreds of years, and Arabic became a very prominent language all over West Africa. "Mohammedou" or "Mohammedu" are the West African versions of Mohammed, and are good indicators of Issidrou's ethnicity.

	gartland:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 05:30 GMT	6 points
	you could probably cut some time off, there is enough time to just guess random countries that competed

	mleung41:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 06:15 GMT	-1 points
	this quiz is definitely more "what kind of name does it sound like theey are from" then who scored the most goals evidenced by not many people getting Gonzalo Hinguain since he was the leading scorer for the first few weeks, yet not many got him. War Honda I think the inverse of this quiz would be good too where you type the names instead.

	Ribhump:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 12:14 GMT	-1 points
	Definitely too long, could easily take off 3 minutes and have a good better distribution of results

	Emeraldfin:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 12:29 GMT	3 points
	That Gelson Fernandez one was tough

	mybeaglebelle:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 12:30 GMT	4 points
	I would agree with you guys and lower the time limit, but only Sporcle can edit it now.

	mybeaglebelle:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 12:31 GMT	8 points
	This is completely irrelevent to the quiz, but am I the only one who didnt notice until now that you can make ten quizzes a month now instead of seven?

	Jam1:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 20:04 GMT	9 points
	@mybeaglebelle: You get to make an extra 3 quizzes if you get 1 published.

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	mybeaglebelle:	Jul 14th, 2010 at 13:16 GMT	3 points
	@Vlad; On Sporcle, 110 is not a very significant number. I have multiple quizzes with over 400 plays and even those aren't likely to be published. It not only depends on number of plays, but also average rating, format, subject matter, and if you lucky enough that the editor enjoys it and makes it an editor's pick. When I say format I mean a quiz like this, not a "millionaire" quiz. I tried my hand at making a couple of those just for fun, knowing that they wouldn't get published. And one of them got 19,000 plays. So you probably need more people to play your quiz before it'll get published. Oh, and one more thing; It helps if you've made a bunch of quizzes. I;ve made probably around 35 quizzes, and this is my first to get published.

	Bakey:	Jul 14th, 2010 at 19:37 GMT	2 points
	Missed 2. I feel like an invalid.

	Vlad:	Jul 17th, 2010 at 07:06 GMT	3 points
	@mybeaglebelle: Thanks.

	mattymany97:	Jul 21st, 2010 at 19:53 GMT	-4 points
	good quiz but really hard to do in order