Tabaré Ramos Ricciardi
Nobody?
Really?
I hope that’s because you’ve been spending so much time watching the World Cup at work- or maybe skipping out on work to watch it. That would make me feel better.
Well, even if you didn’t send in your submissions, I’m sure you’d like to know what the answers- yes?
1930
Scotland (Andy Auld, James Brown, Jimmy Gallagher, Bart McGhee, Alexander Wood)
England (George Moorhouse)
1934
Scotland (Walter Dick, Jimmy Gallagher, Willie McLean)
England (George Moorhouse)
Sweden (Julius Hjulian)
Norway (Werner Nilsen)
Germany (Herman Rapp)
1950
Scotland (Ed McIlvenny)
England (Geoff Coombes)
Haiti (Joe Gaetjens)
Italy (Gino Gardassanich)
Belgium (Joe Maca)
Poland (Adam Wolanin)
1990
Germany (Mike Windischmann)
Uruguay (Tab Ramos)
1994
Germany (Thomas Dooley)
Uruguay (Tab Ramos, Fernando Clavijo)
El Salvador (Hugo Perez)
Netherlands (Earnie Stewart)
South Africa (Roy Wegerle)
Greece (Frank Klopas)
1998
Germany (Thomas Dooley)
Uruguay (Tab Ramos)
Netherlands (Earnie Stewart)
South Africa (Roy Wegerle)
France (David Regis)
Switzerland (Jeff Agoos)
Yugoslavia (Preki)
2002
France (David Regis)
Switzerland (Jeff Agoos)
Netherlands (Earnie Stewart)
Argentina (Pablo Mastroeni)
Colombia (Carlos Llamosa)
2006
Argentina (Pablo Mastroeni)
2010
Scotland (Stuart Holden)
Brazil (Benny Feilhaber)
That’s right, these are all of the foreign-born players who have appeared on World Cup rosters for the United States. The inclusion of Haiti on the list was the key to solving this challenge if you couldn’t get it otherwise.
I’ll be back tomorrow with a new- and hopefully World Cup themed- challenge.
Ah, so obvious now. I’m definitely kicking myself. I was trying to make the countries fit teams that qualified.
It’s sorta funny that I was just talking with Dad over the weekend how the US has always had a foreign-born player on the team. I knew the answer, I just didn’t know I knew.
I knew that fact from this Thursday Challenge. Man, I’m disappointed in myself.
DAMMIT! I was trying to make this be former finalists, based on the fact that England-Scotland played one of the first international cup competitions against each other. I totally overthought this.
I also tried something like that. I went with the “Unofficial” World Champions theme.
The key word was “Haiti.”
If you saw that and thought, “Joe Gaetjens, 1950, scored against England,” it was a cake walk.
If, like me, saw that Haiti has only played in one WC – 1974 – but England and Belgium didn’t qualify that year, you were up a creek.
Ditto.