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Multinational Bluebirds
With our recent signings including Nigeria, Antigua and Gambia internationals, I've been trying to make a list of all of the countries we've had players from. This is what I've got so far - what have I missed?
Antigua
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Curacao
Denmark
England
France
Gabon
Gambia
Germany
Ghana
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Ivory Coast
Netherlands
Nigeria
Northern Ireland
Norway
Republic of Ireland
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Trinidad
Wales
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Wasn't there some chap called Eddie from the US of A?
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Also Ethridge from Phillipines
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PontBlue
Japan as well
Yes, Junichi Inamoto.
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Israel - Dekel Keinan
Finland - Peter Enckelman
Benin - Gestede and Gounongbe played for them, even though they were not born there.
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Algeria - Idriss Saadi v Guinea 2017
Belgium U19 - Marco Weymans
Benin - Rudy Gestede & Frederic Gounongbe
Finland - Peter Enckleman
Guadeloupe - Miguel Comminges
Israel - Dekel Keinan
Jamaica - Richard Langley 2003 & 2004
Turkey - Kerim Frei v Denmark 2012
Turks & Caicos Islands - Charles Cooke
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Kyle Lightbourne - Bermuda
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PontBlue
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is in France so OP has got that covered :thumbup:
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Uruguay - Maximiliano Amondarain
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Loads then! Thought I probably had. Should have remembered Etheridge at least.
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alan_corneli
Jamaica - Richard Langley 2003 & 2004
And Deon Burton don't forget!
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Undercoverinwurzelland
With our recent signings including Nigeria, Antigua and Gambia internationals, I've been trying to make a list of all of the countries we've had players from. This is what I've got so far - what have I missed?
Antigua
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Curacao
Denmark
England
France
Gabon
Gambia
Germany
Ghana
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Ivory Coast
Netherlands
Nigeria
Northern Ireland
Norway
Republic of Ireland
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Trinidad
Wales
Great effort!
Two more to add to the list - Romania (Gabriel Tamas) and Venezuela (Rolf Feltscher), although the latter only made it as far as the bench in his brief stay.
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Morocco - Chamakh
Greece - Konstantopoulos
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Also how could we forget USA. Eddie should have been first on the list
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On a related note, this is a good Wikipedia page. Armenia, Cuba and Belarus (Hleb, at least) are good recent trivia questions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...League_players
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alan_corneli
Algeria - Idriss Saadi v Guinea 2017
Belgium U19 - Marco Weymans
Benin - Rudy Gestede & Frederic Gounongbe
Finland - Peter Enckleman
Guadeloupe - Miguel Comminges
Israel - Dekel Keinan
Jamaica - Richard Langley 2003 & 2004
Turkey - Kerim Frei v Denmark 2012
Turks & Caicos Islands - Charles Cooke
If you're including age groups below full internationals then Kerim Frei played for Switzerland before being capped by Turkey.
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Lots of blasts from the past there. 👍
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India....Chopra?
Not according to Wiki. He wanted to play for India but didn't want to renounce his UK citizenship in favour of his dual Indian citizenship which would have allowed him to play for India.
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Wasn't Earnie born in Zambia?
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And what about the Irish players we have had?