Footballers by Country

For each selected soccer player, name the national team they have played for.

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National teams are not necessarily the same as sovereign countries

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Last updated: May 4, 2022

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First submitted	May 4, 2012
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Player	Country
Wayne Rooney	England
Lionel Messi	Argentina
Pelé	Brazil
Kylian Mbappé	France
Gerd Müller	Germany
Zlatan Ibrahimovic	Sweden
Edinson Cavani	Uruguay
Gareth Bale	Wales
Roberto Baggio	Italy

Player	Country
Johan Cruyff	Netherlands
George Best	Northern Ireland
David Villa	Spain
Christian Pulisic	United States
Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast
Mohamed Salah	Egypt
Robbie Keane	Ireland
Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal
Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine

Player	Country
Pavel Nedvěd	Czech Republic
George Weah	Liberia
Luka Modrić	Croatia
Giorgos Karagounis	Greece
James Rodríguez	Colombia
Kenny Dalglish	Scotland
Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon
Sadio Mané	Senegal
Arturo Vidal	Chile

Level 57

May 4, 2012

All of them. 1:20 left. Thanks for the footie quiz!

Level 52

Jan 31, 2014

Go check out my quizzes!

Level 71

Jul 23, 2014

Got all with 2:42 left.

Level 36

Jun 21, 2022

2:48 left :P

Level 39

Mar 30, 2016

I Had 1:32 left :P

Level 43

Jul 10, 2019

All with 3:14 left woooo

Level 39

Jul 6, 2022

100% with 3:09 left

Level 71

May 4, 2012

Great quiz. 100% first go.

Level 42

May 4, 2012

100% - that's what you get when you're European :)

Level 33

May 4, 2012

Nice one, Quizmaster.

Level 73

May 4, 2012

100%, first try, 2 mins. on the clock. Great quiz! Proper football seems to become as popular on Jetpunk as it is in the real world. Hurrah for that!!

Level 39

May 4, 2012

Never occurred to me that you'd use women.

Level 82

May 18, 2012

Hey, what's with making a quiz that's a decided handicap for Americans?? ;-)

Level 17

Aug 30, 2012

where's liberia?

Level 44

Sep 11, 2012

No Aussies :(

Level 28

Jan 7, 2013

There's no famous Aussie footballers.

Level 47

Jan 29, 2013

Harry Kewell?

+12

Level 52

Jan 18, 2014

Tim Cahill, Johnny Warren, Craig Johnston, Mark Viduka, Mark Breschiano, Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill….

Level 71

Mar 25, 2015

Germany 2 Australia 2 (Australia winning 2-1 with 8 minutes left to go and played in Germany)......... so there!

Level 73

Mar 26, 2015

I would say at least Tim Cahill meets the criteria for this quiz. He's quite famous with his goal during the WC2014, and playing for Millwall, Everton, New York Red Bulls, and now Shanghai Shenhua.

Level 54

Apr 22, 2017

Even though I'm from Australia, I would sayy the we are famous for being really bad at soccer.

Level 45

Jan 30, 2018

It is by country, there is one German, doesn't need to be the most famous one. French could cry there is no Zidane and Argentinians that there is no Maradona. What Brazilians should say? Zico, Romario, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos, Cafu....

If anyone should be pissed off for missing players it should be Poland with players like Lewandowski, Dudek, Tomaszewski, Boniek or Lato 1974 World Cup best scorer. We are also 2 times bronze medal winners and if it wasn't to cheating Germans we should be World Champions. Also Hungary should be on this list with their great team of 1950's and 60's, Bulgaria with 1994 team and Stoichkov, Penev not to mention Russia. So overall Germans have no reason to cry, Gerd Muller is a legendary icon in world of football and I don't see a difference him or Lothar Mattheus and Franz is obvious choice.

Level 9

Feb 12, 2018

tim cahill by far

Level 49

Feb 15, 2018

I'm not German, but they're a far more successful football nation than Poland, Hungary and Russia...none of them have won the world cup, while Germany have won four (including the last one so they're the current world champions) so Majic makes absolutely no sense

Level 48

Feb 26, 2018

@pianos the USA didn't even make the world cup this year

Level 70

Dec 24, 2021

Sam Kerr.

Level 70

Jun 21, 2022

To be fair to Poland, Hungary and Russia, there are only 8 countries in the world that HAVE won a World Cup. 2 runner-up spots actually makes Hungary second only to the Netherlands in terms of placings, outside of those that have won. So, certainly no slouches and more successful than Portugal, Sweden, Belgium or Croatia. And Poland has the best record of those teams that have not reached the final with two third placed finishes (both, it has to be said before Robert Lewandowski was born).

Level 81

Jun 23, 2022

I got 13, good for zero points. But I would have known Cahill.

Level 42

Jul 5, 2018

dunkinggandalf How did you Germans do in the 2018 World cup??? You did not even get Klose to a qualifying spot.You got Mullered by Mexico who Hummilsliated you.Face it you Werner no good

Level 12

Sep 27, 2012

first time taken 2:22 left.

Level 47

Dec 19, 2012

Nice and easy quiz... 2.21 left...

I have made some footbal quizzes, so feel free to try :-)

Level 20

Dec 26, 2012

100% with 2:55 remaining. But hey, I should since I'm a sports journalist :) couldn't do this with any other sport.

Level 20

Jan 12, 2013

which 4% of people dont know where messi is from?

Level 69

May 1, 2020

Americans

Level 16

Jan 27, 2013

just missed Weah. And come on only 50% knew suker? the man won the golden boot!!

Level 24

Mar 11, 2013

George Best and northern ireland is a bit picky, why can't it just go with ireland as northern ireland is not a country

Level 71

Apr 8, 2016

Try telling a Northern Irish man that Northern Ireland is not a country....... if your brave enough.

Level 61

Jun 23, 2017

I can imagine two opposite outcomes.

Level 50

Jun 21, 2022

That very much depends on who you ask in Northern Ireland, Northern Irish people are allowed to put "Irish" as their nationality because a lot of them feel more attached to Ireland than the UK.

Level 58

Jun 26, 2017

Do you even international football. Northern Ireland are world famous compared to Ireland ;)

Level 37

Feb 23, 2022

Come on. In UEFA, Northern Ireland has its own federation, just like Scotland, Wales, and England. :/

Level 35

Nov 28, 2013

3:14 left with all answers, easy one for me :)

Level 62

Dec 25, 2013

2:11 left...:)

Level 52

Jan 18, 2014

100% with 2:46 left :)

Level 20

Apr 20, 2014

all of them, 2.31

Level 78

Jul 5, 2014

Suker also played for Yugoslavia.

Level 22

Sep 24, 2014

Lets put the answers for our great fools,who don't even know who Messi is!

Level 9

Oct 5, 2014

Easy, done with 2:05 left. Should try and do a harder one with players not everyone knows and with fairly difficult countries (e.g. Adebayor, Togo or Ryan Nelesen, New Zealand). I guess there is George Weah there and to some that is difficult.

Level 53

Nov 20, 2014

3:12 left

Level 15

Jan 8, 2015

all of them, first time, 2:59 left.

Level 25

Jan 24, 2015

Great quiz!

Level 9

Jan 27, 2015

gerd muller never played for germany only west germany

Level 11

Mar 18, 2015

Awesome! %100 with 2:48 left!

Level 31

Mar 25, 2015

WHAT IS THIS?? Don't you know Rooney Is from Sri Lanka

Level 66

Mar 25, 2015

http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/91117/copa-libertadores-2015-teams

Level 44

Mar 25, 2015

Why does Republic of Ireland not work for Robbie Keane? Ireland is the island not the country

Level ∞

Mar 26, 2015

Really?

Level 59

Dec 5, 2015

Tom is right. FIFA uses Republic of Ireland.

Level 48

Jan 6, 2016

FIFA uses Republic of Ireland. When Ireland split from the UK in 1922 it was Northern Ireland which was allowed to keep the designation of Ireland - not the Irish Free State.

Also Gerd Muller played for West Germany, if you're not going to change the answer you could at least accept West Germany.

Level 74

Mar 25, 2015

WAY too rest-of-the-world-centric. :-)

Level 18

Apr 26, 2015

England is not a country, its more like a state. But not...

+12

Level 59

Jun 23, 2017

In football/soccer, there is no UK team, the four constituent countries that comprise the UK play as individual teams. This is a hangover from the fact that the game started in the UK and individual football associations were formed before the game was played anywhere else in the world.

Level 77

Jun 23, 2017

On one hand it seems a sneaky way to play more teams, but on the other hand if they combined their best players onto one team they would be better, so it's probably good for the other teams who play them that they are divided, but being from the US I don't really care - although I do enjoy watching soccer occasionally. (But thank you, fitheach, for the explanation.)

Level 59

Jun 23, 2017

In the past, a united UK team probably would have been a formidable force, but these days I doubt it would make much of a difference!

Level 50

Jun 21, 2022

A UK team would basically just be England. The only near dead cert that would join a UK side that isn't English is Andy Robertson, after that it's maybe maybe Tierney but he would only get in as a backup. Bale obviously would have if it was a few years ago but he's close to retirement now.

Level 35

May 3, 2015

100%, 1.22 left.

Level 65

Dec 27, 2015

Got them all with 2:19 remaining. I must say that I'm very surprised that only 35% of people got George Weah, given that he was world player of the year and won the Ballon d'Or, and played for AC Milan for 4 years when they were still one of the worlds best teams.

Level 41

Dec 31, 2015

All with 1.10 left.

Level 26

Jan 25, 2016

2.30 left

Level 9

Mar 29, 2016

gerd muller has never played for germany only west germany

Level 74

Aug 21, 2016

West Germany is identical to Germany.

Level 54

Jan 11, 2018

No it wasn't

Level 43

Jun 24, 2022

Muller played for a country called (in his language) Bundesrepublik Deutschland. That country still exists, it has continued to exist, it's just that its borders changed in 1990. It's the same country.

Level 30

Jul 14, 2016

You should put Robert Lewandowski. He is the best European striker at this moment.

Level 83

Sep 18, 2016

Thought for sure Gheorghe Hagi would make an appearance representing Romania. Nice to see King Kenny picked for Scotland! YNWA!

Level 45

Oct 9, 2016

why is Weah so low? one of the greats :/

Level 71

Jan 18, 2017

Unfortunately Weah never got the chance to show his skills on the international stage. Liberia never qualified for the world cup and most football fans (like myself) know about Weah's teams in Europe and about him breaking the nose of Jorge Costa in reaction for Costa's taunts, but Weah was not referred to as George Weah from Liberia.

Level 55

Nov 8, 2016

all done with 2:08

Level 58

Jan 18, 2017

Can you make a part 2? You can add players like Teófilo Cubillas, Hugo Sanchez, Robert Lewandowski, Pierre-Emerick Aubemeyang, Antonio Valencia, etc

Level 59

Jun 23, 2017

Thanks for the tips - I'll look up the nationalities of those players now :-)

Level 39

Mar 7, 2017

All of them with 2:00 left!

Level 37

Mar 29, 2017

Please accept USA for United States

Level 80

Jun 26, 2017

It's accepted.

Level 48

Jun 23, 2017

100% with 2:08 left

Level 58

Jun 23, 2017

England? There is no country named England.

Level 59

Jun 23, 2017

Oh God, not another one! There is no UK national football team, the four "home" nations (as they're called) have their own individual teams who play internationally.

Level 61

Jun 23, 2017

"soccer"

Level 87

Dec 15, 2020

It's a term from England. The game was invented there.

Level 35

Jun 23, 2017

England and Northern Ireland AREN'T "countries". So, UK should be accepted both for Rooney and Best. I, of course, typed in the end England and Northern Ireland for them, in order to get the points awarded for this quiz, but I see so much strictness in all the other quizzes regarding what is and what isn't a country that I just don't understand why this one, whose description clearly reads COUNTRY, accepts England and N.Ireland in this case.

Level 77

Jun 23, 2017

"Country" does not necessarily equal "sovereign state" (according to Wikipedia, "England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom"). This quiz doesn't ask for sovereign states, but for national teams, as stated in the description.

Level 59

Jun 23, 2017

FIFA, the governing body of world football, currently has 211 national members, including 23 non-sovereign countries. These include Bermuda, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Macao, Guam, Puerto Rico, Tahiti, Palestine, Cayman Islands, USVI. Just 7 fully independent states are NOT members, including Kiribati, FS Micronesia, Vatican City and Monaco.

Level 71

Jun 24, 2017

Vatican do have a team, but they're not allowed to play. It's not fair on the other teams because they've got God on their side.

Level 77

Aug 15, 2018

Didn't stop Argentina

Level 65

Mar 28, 2019

God is in the Vatican City squad of 23 players, but he never gets picked in the starting 11, and never gets a run on from the bench either.

Level 80

Jun 26, 2017

Drogba/Senegal would be better than Khumalo or Kanu

Level 62

Jan 2, 2021

so Not DIDIER Drogba then, you must mean a different one

Level 64

Jun 30, 2017

Luis Suarez was also a famous Spanish football player. He even won the Ballon d'Or....

Spanish should be accepted then

Level 50

Sep 3, 2018

He won Ballon D'or in 1960 and was one of the best players Barcelona had in its history. Spain should be accepted as correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Su%C3%A1rez_(footballer,_born_1935)

Level 31

Sep 10, 2017

I went through this so quick. All the other quizzes I do on the site is information I've learned as an adult and I'm so slow, but this stuff is seared into my brain. Good.

Level 37

Mar 25, 2018

done with 1.52 left I love football quizzes im so good at them

Level 27

Aug 7, 2018

i got 4 of them. lol.

Dont watch soccer at all

Level 16

Feb 22, 2019

an IRISH guy made it on the list. Good man Robbie.

Level 63

Jun 20, 2019

Northern Ireland/England is NOT a country. It is part of the United Kingdom (UK).

Level 18

Aug 12, 2019

In football, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and even Gibraltar with Faroe Islands, are considered to be countries and are eligible to participate in Euro's or World Cup competitions.

Level 37

Nov 18, 2019

done with 2 minutes left excellent quiz

Level 25

May 22, 2020

it's football not soccer. but great quiz 100% with in 1:24

Level 43

Jun 24, 2022

You ought to learn about the history of the sport then. It's been called soccer since the 19th century in the country where it was invented, alongside the term football. Watch some old FA Cup finals on YouTube from the 1950s onwards, you'll hear the word "soccer" as much as you'll hear "football".

Level 28

Sep 24, 2020

I tried putting U.K, and it didn't work. Lol. Could you have that as an option?

Its ok, but, it would be nice to have that as an option.

Level 62

Jan 2, 2021

It asks for the "national team" they have played for; there is no UK national team so should not be accepted

Level 37

Nov 18, 2020

uk isn't a country its split into 4 different countries

Level 36

Mar 8, 2021

No offense, but why is there only one woman soccer player on this list?

Level 73

Nov 8, 2021

And why do only 46% get that one right?

Level 45

Feb 14, 2022

Can we get a part 2 with players like Park Ji Sung or Son for South Korea, Kagawa for Japan, Mo Salah for Egypt, Aubameyang for Gabon, Chicarito for Mexico, Navas for Costa Rica, Cahill from Australia, etc.

Level 85

May 4, 2022

Don't know much about football, but I could easily guess just by the names that Ibrahimovic was Swedish and Mbappe was French.

Level 63

Jun 21, 2022

Ibrahimovic is about the least Swedish name ever. The player in question has Bosnian roots, hence the surname. There is no way you are guessing Sweden 'easily' because of the surname.

Level 70

May 5, 2022

Gerd Muller still hasn't played for Germany

Level ∞

May 5, 2022

West Germany is the same as Germany.

Level 66

May 7, 2022

Nice one. Adebayor, Aubameyang and Mkhitarian could be good additions to this quiz to make it reach to 30

Level 76

May 16, 2022

Sam Kerr/Australia?

Level 19

May 26, 2022

England isn't a country. It's a part of the United Kingdom (UK).

Level 21

Jun 15, 2022

Well, how do you include the likes of Rooney, Daglish, Best and Bale then?

Level 60

Jun 23, 2022

England is a country within the United Kingdom. Besides, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are all separately competing countries with the Fifa. That's why there's no team representing the United Kingdom in World Championships or European Championships.

Level 43

Jun 24, 2022

YAWN!

Level 21

Jun 15, 2022

Great quiz! From a football fan perspective, all these players deserved to be on this list. Although, one recommendation would be Lewandowski or Australian legend Tim Cahill or Harry Kewell. Otherwise, its amazing!

Level 64

Jun 21, 2022

Spain should work also for Luis Suarez. I don't even think the Uruguayan Luis Suarez had a better career than the Spanish who even received the Ballon d'Or

Level ∞

Jun 21, 2022

I didn't know that. Changed it to Edinson Cavani.

Level 49

Jun 21, 2022

Where the fck is Poland and Lewandowski... come on.

Level 43

Jun 24, 2022

Boo hoo! My favourite footballer/country isn't on this quiz. It's a personal attack on me and my human rights. I am so offended, because I have no perspective in my life.

Level 58

Jun 21, 2022

Too easy

Level 20

Jul 5, 2022

first try with 1:36 left

Level 42

Aug 28, 2022

0:19 left. Phew!

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