Quiz! Can you match 50 players to the city or town that they were born in?

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Football quiz: Was Welsh Superstar Gareth Bale actually born in Wales? (Image credit: Gett)

10 minutes on the clock, 50 players to guess.

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In 1957, Alfredo Di Stefano, the Argentinian genius who had come to define Real Madrid, made his first appearance for Spain.

Di Stefano was born and brought up in the city of Buenos Aires, some 12 hours away from his adopted city of Madrid. In fact, ADS had already played for Argentina internationally… but switched allegiances. 

Rules were a little laxer back then. In fact, the original Galactico had even played for Colombia, too. His Blancos teammate Ferenc Puskas – the most famous footballer to have ever come from Hungary and still the nation's all-time scorer – even joined his mate to play for Spain at the 1962 World Cup.

Things have tightened up since but there are still a fair few instances of players being born places that you wouldn't expect. Will any of our 50 catch you out? We've thrown a few decoys in for good measure…

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Mark White
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Mark White is the Digital Content Editor at FourFourTwo. During his time on the brand, Mark has written three cover features on Mikel Arteta, Martin Odegaard and the Invincibles, and has written pieces on subjects ranging from Sir Bobby Robson’s time at Barcelona to the career of Robinho. An encyclopedia of football trivia and collector of shirts, he first joined the team back in 2020 as a staff writer.