Posted August 5, 20195 yr Welcome to the World Cup of Sportspeople! With the Women's Football World Cup in full swing just finished 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 South America. 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 South America (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 South America here will be the same as the countries which take part in the South American qualifiers for the Football World Cup. The full list is shown in the second post, however notably Guyana and Suriname do not count as South America 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 11th August at 23:59 (but if you're a little bit late I'll probably still count them). Get nominating!
August 5, 20195 yr Author Eligible Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
August 5, 20195 yr Sergio Aguero (Argentina)- Football Juan Curuchet (Argentina)- Cycling Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina)- Tennis Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentina)- Motor Racing Gaston Gaudio (Argentina)- Tennis Diego Maradona (Argentina)- Football Lionel Messi (Argentina)- Football Paula Parteto (Argentina)- Judo Walter Perez (Argentina)- Cycling Guillermo Vilas (Argentina)- Tennis Carlos Alberto (Brazil)- Football Rubens Barrichello (Brazil)- Motor Racing Cafu (Brazil)- Football Roberto Carlos (Brazil)- Football Thiago Braz da Silva (Brazil)- Athletics Cesar Cielo Filho (Brazil)- Swimming Emerson Fittipaldi (Brazil)- Motor Racing Jairzinho (Brazil)- Football Gustavo Kuerten (Brazil)- Tennis Lucio (Brazil)- Football Maurren Maggi (Brazil)- Athletics Felipe Massa (Brazil)- Motor Racing Fabiana Murer (Brazil)- Athletics Pele (Brazil)- Football Nelson Piquet (Brazil)- Motor Racing Romario (Brazil)- Football Ronaldinho (Brazil)- Football Ronaldo (Brazil)- Football Socrates (Brazil)- Football Aryton Senna (Brazil)- Motor Racing Nicolas Massu (Chile)- Tennis Eider Arevalo (Colombia)- Athletics Oscar Figueroa (Colombia)- Weightlifting Luis Fernando Lopez (Colombia)- Athletics Rene Higuita (Colombia)- Football Caterine Ibarguen (Colombia)- Athletics Maria Isabel Urrutia (Colombia)- Weightlifting Mariana Pajon (Colombia)- Cycling Carlos Valderrama (Colombia)- Football Andres Gomez (Ecuador)- Tennis Jefferson Perez (Ecaudor)- Athletics Jose Luis Chilavert (Paraguay)- Football Nolberto Solano (Peru)- Football Maxi Pereira (Uruguay)- Football Yuilmar Rojas (Venezuela)- Athletics
August 6, 20195 yr Aryton Senna (Brazil)- Motor Racing Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentina)- Motor Racing Jose Froilan Gonzalez (Argentina) Motor Racing Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentina)- Football Emerson Fittipaldi (Brazil)- Motor Racing Nelson Piquet (Brazil)- Motor Racing Diego Maradona (Argentina)- Cheating scumbag Lionel Messi (Argentina)- Football Carlos Alberto (Brazil)- Football Zico (Brazil) Football Diego Forlan (Uruguay) Football Carlos Pace (Brazil) Motor Racing Carlos Reutemann (Argentina) Motor Racing Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia) Motor Racing Helio Castroneves (Brazil) Motor Racing Roberto Carlos (Brazil)- Football Thiago Braz da Silva (Brazil)- Athletics Bebeto (Brazil) Football Jairzinho (Brazil)- Football Pele (Brazil)- Football Romario (Brazil)- Football Ronaldinho (Brazil)- Football Ronaldo (Brazil)- Football Socrates (Brazil)- Football
August 7, 20195 yr Garrincha - Brazil - Football Pele - Brazil - Football Gilberto Silva - Brazil - Football Ayrton Senna - Brazil - Motor Racing Diego Maradona - Argentina - Football Mario Kempes - Argentina - Football Lionel Messi - Argentina - Football Alfredo Di Stefano - Argentina - Football Alexis Sanchez - Chile - Football
August 7, 20195 yr Author Nairo Quintana - Colombia - Cycling Egan Bernal - Colombia - Cycling Pele - Brazil - Football Lionel Messi - Argentina - Football Luis Suarez - Uruguay - Football Edinson Cavani - Uruguay - Football Diego Forlan - Uruguay - Football Arturo Vidal - Brazil - Football Diego Maradona - Argentina - Football Robert Scheidt - Brazil - Sailing Paula Pareto - Argentina - Judo Catarina Ibarguen - Colombia - Athletics Mariana Pajon - Colombia - Cycling Ruben Limardo - Venezuela - Fencing
August 8, 20195 yr Author Just as a heads up (as I'm doing descriptions early), Alfredo Di Stefano most recently played for Spain and so is ineligible for South America.
August 11, 20195 yr Football Lionel Messi Roberto Carlos Ronaldo Sergio Aguero Carlos Tevez Diego Forlan Radamel Falcao Gonzalo Higuaín Edinson Cavani Angel di Maria Antonio Valencia Marta F1 Ayrton Senna Rubens Barrichello Felipe Massa Juan Pablo Montoya Swimming César Cielo
August 12, 20195 yr Author I can reveal that the player with the most nominations and going directly through to the Finals is, somewhat surprisingly... LIONEL MESSI Both groups will be coming tonight!
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