Thursday, June 5, 2008

Birthright

There are only two American-born head coaches in MLS right now.

Can you guess who they are? Hint: Their teams aren't at the top of the table.

The others were born in various countries - Costa Rica, Germany, Brazil, Scotland, England, Uruaguy, and Holland. Can anyone correctly match all the MLS head coaches to their country of birth?

15 comments:

  1. Jason Kreis and Tom Soehn

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  2. Do interim head coaches not count? If they do I think you've got 3.

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  3. I wasn't counting interims. El chueco is right for the first part of the trivia. Anyone want to tackle the second part and match the remaining coaches to birthplaces?

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  4. wasn't soehn born in germany?

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  5. Ill take .."I'm not sure" for 500 A.C.

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  6. Schmid - Germany
    Onalfo - Brazil
    Hamlet - Costa Rica
    Kinnear, Nicol - Scotland
    Yallop - England
    Gullit - Holland
    Clavijo - Uruguay

    But you also left out

    Preki - Yugoslavia
    Osorio - Colombia

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  7. A.C. said...

    Very good, Dave. I left off a couple of countries to try and make the question tricky, but you handled it quite well.
    Though to be specific, Preki was born in Serbia.
    Finally, you also left out
    John Carver - England

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  8. Oooh! I have an answer! Who gives a sh#t?

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  9. You asked what country each coach was born in. Preki was born in the country of Yugoslavia. Serbia was not the name of the country when he was born.

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  10. Is this the Pedantics Anonymous meeting?

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  11. Wasn't Hamlet raised in the US though?

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  12. Well, "raised" would change the country status of quite a few of the coaches - that's a whole different level of trivia.

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  13. Yallop, anyone?

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