>Brazil
Ayrton Senna
>Canada
Wayne Gretzky
>USA
Jordan? Ali? Ruth
>Australia
Don Bradman
>Argentina
Fangio? Maradona
>Belgium
Eddy Merckx
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ITT: Sports icon by country
Michael Gray
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Nathan Williams
definitely Jordan for the USA
Ali is a close second, but Boxing is a dead sport these days (though it's funny how football hasn't produced a universally iconic figure yet despite being the most popular sport; I'd say Jim Brown is the closest, and that was 50 years ago)
Owen Perry
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Alexander Adams
England - David Beckham
NZ - Jonah Lomu
Scotland - Andy Murray
Wales - Gareth Bale
ROI - McGoober
NI - Rory Mcellroy
France - Zidane
Sweden - Zlatan
Dominic Hill
ill do some more niche ones
Jamaica - Usain Bolt
Barbados - Garry Sobers
Antigua - Viv Richards
Liberia - George Weah
Iran - Ali Daei
Pakistan - Imran Khan
India - Sachin Tendulkar
Sri Lanka - Muttiah Muralitharan
>England - David Beckham
sporting icon he said, not professional celebrity
Daniel Watson
Mario andretti or lebron
Colton Campbell
Taufik Hidayat
Nolan Morales
There's no way Senna is a bigger icon than Pele or Ronaldo in Brazil.
Jace Carter
Ryder Hill
>spain
Andrés iniesta
Jaxson Rivera
Schumacher or Beckenbauer
looking at how nobody cares about F1 here anymore it's probably Beckenbauer now
Adam Rodriguez
>forgeting ur country
John Foster
But why? Is it because you don't have a driver winning everything?
Jordan Perez
nope
Jeremiah Sanchez
No, it went down in the 4 years of Vettel as well. I blame those faggots saying that car racing is bad for the environment.
Sebastian Flores
It's between him, Nadal, Gasol and Indurain
Connor Scott
So the cuckization of your country is really a matter of quite some time, huh...
Here, we've been gradually losing interest in F1 after Senna's death. We had sparks of interest when Barrichello and Massa had shots at winning the championship, but after the expected dissapointment, we risk losing the races on free TV, as we already lost the qualy sessions due to low ratings.
Mason Young
Vettel was still the most popular driver here and it went up a little the year Schumacher returned.
Adrian Reed
No one gives a fuck about Jim Brown
Ryan Carter
Jordan.
Ali is a legend in a dead sport, and nobody cares about baseball anymore.
>England
I feel like Charlton or Moore are the most popular. Beckham was insanely popular until he left for Madrid.
>Portugal
Tsunaldo
>Argentina
Maradona
>Brazil
Senna for sure
>Germany
Beckenbauer
>Italy
Maldini or Riva
>Canada
Gretzky
Nicholas Carter
Japan : Ichiro
Philippines : Pacquiao
China: Yao Ming i guess
Korea: Video games lol
Hudson Anderson
Is Schumacher mentally disabled for life now?
Nathan Garcia
I don't think he's coming back.
Luis Scott
Nobody knows, probably
Grayson Bennett
Wales > Gareth Edwards not Bale.
Ireland > Brian O'Driscoll
Oliver Peterson
Yes he is.
Pele is not even liked because he talks shit everytime and Ronaldo is right winger tranny fucker.
Landon Brooks
Brazil = Neymar Jr
Wyatt Hill
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Henry Hughes
Russia Dimitry Klokov
Korea Park Tae Wan
Netherlands Johan Cruijff
Elijah Price
Probably him for Denmark
Josiah Jackson
We have one for summer and one for winter.
Summer = Jari Litmanen
Winter = Teemu Selänne
Jayden Cox
Mika Hakkinen is your biggest
Adam Hughes
Kimi is probably more known
Mason Barnes
Italy Valentino Rossi
Jordan Wright
Hagi, no doubt about it
Thomas Gutierrez
Who would be Norways?
Northug, Bjorndalen, Riise?
Carson Nelson
These
Jaxon Gray
Johan Olav Koss
Nicholas Campbell
I wouldnt call him an icon, I think "icon" implies some popular craziness
Grayson Cooper
Not a tough call for Greece, Pyrros Dimas and Nikos Galis are probably the most iconic athletes (weightlifting and basketball). The former is the most solid Olympic medalist, the latter takes credit for making basketball popular
Candidates for future generations: Spanoulis, Diamantidis, Papaloukas
No real iconic athletes for football, but if anyone ever asks, it would be Zagorakis and Karagounis
Brayden Lewis
Same in France, nobody cares about F1 anymore. I remember 15 years ago we used to talk about it at school with my friends every monday.
I dont know if it's because the races became boring since there isnt much suspense about whos gonna win, but that was already the case with Schumacher.
Jordan Phillips
Northern Ireland: George Best
Wales: Gareth Edwards
Scotland: Kenny Dalglish? Chris Hoy? when he retires I guess it will be Andy Murray anyway
Ireland: Brian O'Driscoll
Connor Hill
Nope.
In Spain I would say Nadal or Indurain.
Leo Jackson
I dont get how in a country where football is so big and obsessed over, some dude driving a vehicle really fast is the sports icon.
Ian Lopez
>football hasn't produced a universally iconic figure
Tom Brady, dumbass
Ethan Wilson
He is as known in the world as an average european player of a top team.
Perhaps less.
Dominic Brown
yeah, but this thread is about national sporting icons. everyone in America knows him as the GOAT
Luis Anderson
Here is Lewis Schwartz
Asher White
Yep, I get your point.
Anyway I thought you consider Jordan as the greatest sportman. At least here in Spain (I guess in Europe as well) people consider Jordan as the best sportman of all history.
Andrew Garcia
Brady is nowhere near Jordan-level ubiquity
Caleb Ward
England - Shearer
Grayson Torres
>Australia
Could also be Rod Laver. One of the most successful tennis players of all time.
Jackson Gray
>NI
George Best
>Sweden
Bjorn Berg
Luis Lewis
Eusébio ?
Jose Howard
Poland - Adam Małysz
Mason Reyes
England- Paul Gascoigne.
He's this country epitomised.
Julian Peterson
It should be Bjorndalen, since he is the most winning Olympian ever, but since it's winter sports no one has heard of him
Norhug is an idiot and Riise is an ever bigger idiot.
So it's Solskjaer, he scored the winner in a CL final