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In this year's Euroleague, we'll se players from 37(!!!) countries! Ohmy

Ofcourse Americans rule as every one out of the 24 teams has at least one of them! Tongue

Here we go:

1)USA: 70 *Prokom and Charleroi have 5 apiece!! Ohmy

2)Greece: 25 *PAO & OLY have 9 apiece. Maccabi, Milan and Bilbao have 2 each and Siena has 1!
Spain: 25 *Every one of them plays for a Spanish team(5 tems)!!! None wants you!!! Tongue

Serbia: 25 *Except from Partizan, 10 teams Euroleague-wide have at least 1 Serb!!! Surpisingly PAO is not one of these teams but we always have the one and only Serb... Zelimir Obradovic!!! Tongue

3)Italy: 24 *Hard to believe but it's true! Biggrin

4)Croatia: 20
Turkey: 20
5)Russia: 18
6)Lithuania: 14
7)Slovenia: 12
8)France: 11
9)Israel: 9
10)Poland: 7
11)Germany: 6
Bosnia & Herzegovina: 6
12)Belgium: 5
13)Senegal: 4 * Huh

14)Georgia: 3
Latvia: 3
F.Y.R.O.M.: 3 *Yeah, whatever! Baby

15)Australia: 2
Brazil: 2
Czech Republic: 2
England: 2
16)Central African Republic: 1 *Romain Sato!!!! Biggrin

Montenegro: 1 *Hail Pekovic!!! Cool

Belarus: 1
Austria: 1
Slovakia: 1
Sweden: 1
Finland: 1
Argentina: 1
Uruguay: 1
Dominican Republic: 1
Nigeria: 1
Seychelles: 1 * Thup

Albania: 1 *Really?!?!? Baby

I think he plays in EFES.

*Some nations have naturalized players. Bag

**Ofcourse most of these numbers will change by the time lock-out ends.

Thought I'd update this thread. Overall number of players has been reduced due to reduction of participating teams to 16. Still overall number of countries represented dropped rather insignificantly. Currently it's 31.

USA - 62
Turkey - 25
Greece - 22
Serbia - 19
Russia - 16
Germany - 12
Lithuania - 12
Italy - 10
Spain - 9
France - 7
Israel - 6
Slovenia - 5
Croatia - 4
Brazil - 3
Latvia - 3
Belarus - 2
Bulgaria - 2
Canada - 2
Montenegro - 2
Sweden - 2
Argentina - 1
Australia - 1
Czech Republic - 1
Dominican Republic - 1
Finland - 1
FYROM - 1
Georgia - 1
Hungary -1
Mexico - 1
Nigeria - 1
Uruguay - 1

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