Posted July 1, 20196 yr Welcome to the World Cup of Sportspeople! With the Women's Football World Cup in full swing and the Men's World Cup being a resounding success last year, we'll be following on with a tournament, not of countries, but of the sports-men and women themselves. This contest is designed to select the greatest sportspeople from each continent through a number of rounds, selecting the best of the best, and pitting them together to show who we really think is the best sportsperson of them all! This is the Nominations stage for Africa. To make it easy for you all (and so you don't have to read a really long paragraph), here are the rules: - You can nominate any sportsperson, active, retired or dead, provided that their most recent appearance nationally was from a country in Africa (regardless of where they were born). If they have never competed on a national level, their nationality will simply be that which associate themselves with. - The countries which count as Africa here will be the same as the countries which take part in the African qualifiers for the Football World Cup. The full list is shown in the second post, however notably Egypt counts as Africa here. - You can nominate any number of sportspeople, regardless of whether they have already been nominated. Every nominated sportsperson will advance through to the next round, however the sportsperson with the most nominations will advance directly through to the Finals without being entered into the continental qualifiers. Nominations close on Sunday 7th June at 23:59 (but of youre a little bit late I'll probably still count them). Get nominating!
July 1, 20196 yr Author ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, DR Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia (just a final reminder that any number of athletes can be nominated per country, including none!)
July 1, 20196 yr FYI, the information in the first post pertains to Europe. Mohamed Salah (Egypt - Soccer) Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast - Soccer) Asamoah Gyan (Ghana - Soccer) Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast - Soccer) George Weah (Liberia - Soccer) Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon - Soccer) Charl Schartzel (South Africa - Golf) Oscar Pistorius (South Africa - Track & Field) Hakeem Olajuwon (Nigeria - Basketball) Dikembe Mutombo (Congo - Basketball) Victor Oladipo (Sierra Leone - Basketball) Manute Bol (Sudan - Basketball) Serge Ibaka (Congo - Basketball) Joel Embiid (Cameroon - Basketball)
July 1, 20196 yr Author FYI, the information in the first post pertains to Europe. Just fixed now - thanks!
July 1, 20196 yr Author My nominations: Chad Le Clos (South Africa - Swimming) Kolo Toure (Ivory Coast - Football) Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast - Football) Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon - Football) John Obi Mikel (Nigeria - Football) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Sierra Leone - Football) Sadio Mané (Senegal - Football) Daniel Teklehaimanot (Eritrea - Cycling) Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia - Athletics) Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia - Athletics) David Rudisha (Kenya - Athletics) Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia - Athletics)
July 1, 20196 yr Roger Milla (Cameroon - Football) Didier Drogba (Cote D'Ivoire - Football) George Weah (Liberia - Football) Jody Scheckter (South Africa - Motor Racing) Zola Budd (South Africa - Athletics) Ernie Els (S Africa - Golf) Gary Player (S Africa - Golf) Jinty Rhodes (S Africa - Cricket) Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia - Athletics) Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon - Football) Francois Pienaar (S Africa - Rugby)
July 1, 20196 yr AB de Villiers - South Africa - Cricket Jacques Kallis - South Africa - Cricket Dale Steyn - South Africa - Cricket Allan Donald - South Africa - Cricket Graeme Smith - South Africa - Cricket Andrew Flower - Zimbabwe - Cricket Kip Keino - Kenya - Athletics Haile Gabrselassie - Ethiopia - Athletics Said Aouita - Morocco - Athletics Kenenisa Bekele - Ethiopia - Athletics Henry Rono - Kenya - Athletics Eliud Kipchoge - Kenya - Athletics David Rudisha - Kenya - Athletics Mo Salah - Egypt - Football Didier Drogba - Ivory Coast - Football George Weah - Liberia - Football Samuel Eto'o - Cameroon - Football Kolo Toure - Ivory Coast - Football Lauren - Cameroon - Football Nwankwo Kanu - Nigeria - Football Edited July 1, 20196 yr by King Rollo
July 3, 20196 yr Noureddine Morceli (Algeria)- Athletics Taoufik Makhloufi (Algeria)- Athletics Amantle Montsho (Botswana)- Athletics Issac Makwala (Botswana)- Athletics Samuel Eto'o- (Cameroon)- Football Roger Milla (Cameroon)- Football Francoise Mbango Etone (Cameroon)- Athletics Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia) - Athletics Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)- Athletics Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) - Athletics Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) - Athletics Deratu Tulu (Ethiopia)- Athletics Kirani James (Grenada)- Athletics Didier Drogba- (Ivory Coast)- Football Kolo Toure (Ivory Coast)- Football Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)- Football David Rudisha (Kenya)- Athletics Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya)- Athletics Paul Tergat (Kenya)- Athletics Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya)- Athletics Vivian Cheruiyot- (Kenya)- Athletics George Weah (Liberia)- Football Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco)- Athletics Maria Mutola (Mozambique)- Athletics Frankie Fredericks (Namibia)- Athletics Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria)- Football Sadio Mane (Senegal)- Football Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Sierra Leone) - Football) Chad Le Clos (South Africa)- Swimming Jody Schecketer (South Africa)- Formula One Ernie Els (South Africa)- Golf Gary Player (South Africa)- Golf Graeme Smith (South Africa)- Cricket Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa)- Cricket Shaun Pollock (South Africa)- Cricket Perrie Mans (South Africa)- Snooker Waynde van Niekerk (South Africa)- Athletics Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)- Swimming
July 6, 20196 yr Forgive spelling Haile Gabreisalssie Maria Muttola Michael essien Didier Drogba Pele Chad me clos
July 6, 20196 yr Author Pele is Brazilian - unless you mean Abedi Pele? (all the others are fine though!)
July 7, 20196 yr Hashim Amla- (South Africa)- Cricket AB de Villiers- (South Africa)- Cricket Jacques Kallis (South Africa)- Cricket Gary Kirsten- (South Africa)- Cricket
July 7, 20196 yr Football Mohamed Salah Sadio Mane Didier drogba Yaya Toure Kolo Toure Athletics Haile Gebrselassie Hicham El Guerrouj Maria Lourdes Mutola Swimming Chad Le Clos Golf Ernie Els
July 8, 20196 yr Author Nominations are CLOSED and have been counted up! The sportsperson with the most nominations and going directly through to the Final is... DIDIER DROGBA! The superstar striker is the all-time top scorer of his national team, the Ivory Coast, and has scored more goals at Chelsea than any other foreign player. He has also won verious Player of the Year awards in his career. Into the Final he goes! The first qualifying group will be up shortly!
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