AHFA 2020 World Cup

[Capibara]

Team: Venetian Republic (Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta)
Nickname: Lions
Home Stadium, City: Saint Mark Stadium, Venice
Home Kit:

Away Kit:

Coach: Guido Brunetti

Roster (23 players)
Goalkeepers:
1. Alvise Vianello
12. Antonio Boscolo
23. Nicolò Trevisan

Defenders:
2. Giovanni Scarpa
13. Domenico Rossi
19. Silvestro Favaro
3. Andreas Kapodistrias
4. Angelo Rizzo
18. Leonardo Molin
5. Sebastiano Tiozzo

Midfielders:
6. Carlo Ballarin
10. Francesco Liveralis
14. Marcantonio Zennaro
22. Ludovico Moustaki
7. Paolo Tiepolo
17. Tommaso Costantini
8. Cristoforo Budinić

Forwards:
20. Marino Furlan
11. Giovanni Marulić
15. Jacopo Zampieri
21. Pietro Lorenzon
16. Enrico Frigo
9. Domenico Dal Corso

 

[Baconheimer]

You know what would be interesting? An Esperanto nation.

 

[Baconheimer]

That or bringing back Haymitch Xander, Jesse Stansfield, and the fascist English Republic.

 

[Gian]

That or bringing back Haymitch Xander, Jesse Stansfield, and the fascist English Republic.

I kind of loved that nation. Oregon too.

 

[New Britain Mapping]

24 nations left to get on with the World Cup, keep submitting!

 

[riskyrofl]

Team: Federation of Caribbean Socialist Republics (unofficial: The Caribbean Federation, The Western Antilles)

Nicknames: Los Brigadiers/Les Brigadiers/Brigadye Yo/The Brigadiers/De Brigadiers, Las Estrellas Rojas/Les Étoiles Rouges/Zetwal Wouj Yo/The Red Stars/De Red Stars

National Stadium: Stade Toussaint Louverture, Port-Républicain (iotl: Port-au-Prince)

Home and Away Kit:

Manager: Jorge Moreno

Squad
Goalkeepers:
Ricardo Phillipe (Arcahaie FC)
Jackson Fraser (Atalanta)
Jean D'Costa (Cienfuegos)

Defenders:
Carlens Arcus (Auxerre)
Jacob De La Côte (C) (St Pauli)
Adrian Mariappa (Watford)
Frank Léger (FC La Habana)
Armando Molina (Pinar del Rio)
Thomas Saunders (Arnett Gardens)
Diego Leopoldo (FC La Habana)

Midfielders:
Paul Beauvais (St Pauli)
Antonio Rubalcalba (Ajax)
Oscar Romero (Union Berlin)
Donovan Marshall (Portmore United)
Vladimir Bloncourt (Independiente)
Mateo Paredes (CSKA Moscow)
Fabian Etienne (Violette AC)

Forwards:
Raheem Sterling (Manceinion City)
Pierre Colas (Sevilla)
Leon Bailey (Bayer Leverkusen)
Ramon Antoine (Santiago De Cuba)
Kwame Jordan (Arcahaie FC)
Marcus Pasquet (Portmore United)

 

[Yanranay]

Team: Banat Republic
Nickname: The Danube Lions
Home Stadium, City: November-Thirtyfirst-Arena (Harminchárom Október Arénája)
Home Kit: Red shirt, yellow trunks
Away Kit: Blue shirt, yellow trunks
Coach: Raul Cosmescu

Roster (23 players)
Goalkeepers:
1 Dragoljub Velimirović
12 Ivan Tatarescu
23 Paul Freisler

Defenders:
2 Bogoljub Lazarević (Captain)
6 Risto Darković
15 Sergiu Ionesco
3 Vasile Barbu
22 Pataki Rajmund
14 Raoul Heidler
11 Eckhardt Hartjenstein

Midfielders:
5 Ljuba Ugljanin
10 Arsenije Živanović
20 Antonio Torje
13 Wawrzyniec Wisz
4 Calin Paler
8 Fábián Adrián
19 Gabriel Stieler

Forwards:
7 Ilija Blagojević
9 Tiberiu Stefan
16 Antonio Hurgoi
17 Szilágyi Vince
21 Kozma Benjámin
18 Paweł Garbacz

 

[PNWKing]

Alabama, Mississippi, Tenneesee, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, the Bahamas, southern California

 

[Lothal]

Republic of Khemia (WIP)

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Nickname: The Pharaohs
Home Stadium, City: National Stadium , Rakodi
Kit:

Coach: Hany Ramzy

Roster (23 players)
Goalkeepers:
1 Bahig Husniya
16 Youssef Awd
23 Mohammed Bassam
Defenders:
7 Bourtos Fathy
8 Ioannis Iolas
6 Ahmed Hegazi
5 Ramy Rabia
2 Naguib Bassily
3 Abdallah Gomaa
4 Mohammed Hany
12 Nagy Ramzy
13 Mahmoud Wahid
20 Ibrahim Wahba
Midfielders:
17 Mohammed Elneny
21 Trezeguet
14 Amr El Solia
8 Mena Hamed
9 Hussein El Shahat
22 Khairy Magdy
25 Yousry Dawoud
Forwards:
10 Youssef Ghaly
11 Mahmoud Kahraba
18 Hossam Hassan
15 Constantin Tsaldaris

 

[Capibara]

These territories plus Euboea. (Map credits)

 

[John_Smith]

Republic of Ragusa

(aside from Lastovo due to overlap w/ the Venetian Republic)
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Nickname: The Aristocrats (Gospari)
Home Stadium, City: Stadion Lapad, Dubrovnik
Home Kit: Horizontal red and white stripes, red trunks
Away Kit: Blue and yellow diagonally split, yellow trunks
Coach: Ruđer Stulli

Roster (23 players)
Goalkeepers:
1 Mavro Mikalja
12 Valtazar Ban
23 Vlaho Bruerović

Defenders:
2 Lovre Palmotić
3 Dinko Bunić
5 Džore Saraka
6 Marko Džamanjić
11 Simone Ghetaldi
13 Petar Luccari
21 Luko Vojnović

Midfielders:
7 Konstantin Fabris
8 Lujo Abramović
10 Matan Vachetti
14 Vicente Pozza
15 Niko Ranjina
19 Đivo Nalješković
20 Lazaro Gondola

Forwards:
4 (c) Ignjat Sorgo
9 Vukan Stojanović
16 Stijepo Zorić
17 Baldo Crijević
18 Antun Gučetić
22 Vicko Mlaskonja

 

[Lothal]

Kit base I found online.

 

[Aztekk]

Just wondering... how shall the host country be defined?

 

[Capibara]

People will submit bids and afterwards we will vote, but I think we'll wait first to have the 32 teams.

 

[brunosouzzxx]

Federal United Republic of San Paulo
República Federal Unida de São Paulo

General Information
Capital: Anhembi
Major Cities: São Paulo, Corityba, Goyânia, Cuyabá, Santos
Population: 122,317,501
Denonym: Paulite
Languages: Portuguese, Paulite¹, Guarany
Government: Federal Presidential Republic
President: Kátia Abreu
Vice-President: Fernando Haddad
Independence from Portugal: July 9th, 1823
Current Constitution: September 1st, 1973
GDP: US$4,5 trillion [5th]
GDP per Capita: $37,589 [25th]
HDI: 0,860 [36th]
Currency: Cruzeiro (SPC) [₡]

Provincial Map

Team Information

Football Federation: Associação do Futebol Paulista (AFP)
National Stadium: Estádio da República, Anhembi
Nickname: Os Roxos (The purples), A suçuarana (the Puma)

Football Kits:

Current Roster
(bold indicates starting lineup; italic indicates the name the player is more often known)
Coach:
Dorival Júnior, Internacional

Goalkeepers:
07 - Ederson, Anhembi, C.F.
02 - Cássio, Athletico de São Paulo
01 - Jailson, Palestra Itália

Defender:
23 - Marquinhos, Internacional
15 - Éder Militão, Anhembi
04 - Felipe Monteiro, Real Madrid
12 - Bruno Alves, Athletico Paranaense

Midfielder:
13 - Carlos Casemiro, Anhembi
25 - Arthur Melo, Coritybano
14 - Éverton Ribeiro, São João S.E.
30 - Willian da Silva, América
16 - Fábio Jesus, Athletico Paranaense
20 - Caio Souza, Coritybano
05 - Alex Sandro, Internacional
06 - Renan Lodí, Athletico de Madrid
08 - Danilo Avelar, Athletico de São Paulo
19 - Lucas Píton, América

Offense:
11 - Neymar, Santos
09 - Gabriel Jesus, Palestra Itália
10 - Gabriel Barbosa (Gabigol), Santos
26 - Lucas Ramos, São João S.E.
18 - Guilherme Diniz, Barcelona
27 - João Araxá, Gama

Typical Formation: 3-4-3

¹Paulite is the OTL extinct Língua Geral Paulista, that in ttl is still widely spoken.

 

[Gian]

And another nation by me:

Republic of Iran

Mardomi-ye Irân[1]

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Basic Information
Capital: Tehran
Major Cities: Yazd, Isfahan, Qom, Mashhad, Shiraz, Tabriz
Population: 83,183,741
Languages: Persian (official language), Kurdish, Azeri, Baluchi, Arabic, Luri/Mazandarani, Gilaki, etc.
Official Script: Pazend
Major Religions:

• Zoroastrianism (64.6%; state religion)
• Shia Islam [primarily Twelver] (11.5%)
• Manichaeism (2.4%)
• Christianity [mostly Assyrian Church of the East and Oriental Orthodox] (10.5%)
• others [Judaism/Sunni Islam] (2.3%)
• Irreligious (7.7%)

Government: Unitary Parliamentary constitutional Republic
Head of State: President Ardeshir Houshian
Head of Government: Prime Minister Fereydun Mobadi

GDP per Capita (PPP in US$): $17,662
Currency: Iranian zari (IRZ)

Map: (not present since territory is same as OTL's Islamic Republic of Iran)

Team Information

Football Federation: Fedrâsion-e Futbâll-e Irân (FFRI)
National Stadium: Azadi Stadium, Tehran
Nickname: Shiran-e Irân (Iranian Lions), Tîm-e Mardomi (National Team)

Football Kits:
Primary Jersey:

Secondary Jersey:

Current Roster
(bold indicates starting lineup, *indicates player born in foreign country)

Current Manager: Dragan Skočić* (Croatia)

Goalkeepers:
1 - Artabaz Beiranvand (Sarab-e Yas, Lorestan)
12 - Mazdan Rostam Mazaheri (Dogondaban, Kohgiluyeh)
22 - Payam Niazmand (Tehran, Tehran)

Defense:
2 - Voria Ghafouri (Sanandaj, Kurdistan)
4 - Siavash Yazdani (Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan)
5 - Milad Mehrani (Tehran, Tehran)
8 - Mehrdad Pouraliganji (Pain Ganj Afruz, Mazandaran)
13 - Zartosht Farahmand-Zadegan (Abadan, Khuzestan)
15 - Dariush Mehregan (Qazvin, Qazvin)
19 - Farzad Zartoshti (Tehran, Tehran)
23 - Ramin Radineian (Semeskande, Mazandaran)

Midfielders:
3 - Aryamehr Gholizadeh (Namin, Ardabil)
6 - Adarhormazd Naysani (Azadshahr, Golestan)
7(captain) - Mehran Shojaei (Shiraz, Fars)
9 - Omid Jamshidi (Zarandin-e Sofla, Mazandaran)
11 - Vahid Ardavani (Darreh-ye Badam, Lorestan)
14 - Bahram Aushedarmi (Isfahan, Isfahan)
16 - Manuchahr Torabi (Eshtehard, Alborz)
21 - Maziyar Moabadi (Bushehr, Bushehr)

Offense:
10(vice-captain) - Kurosh Adarkhurshid (Ardabil, Ardabil)
17 - Mehran Sohrabi (Bushehr, Bushehr)
18 - Kaveh Rostami (Shahabad-e Bakhtar, Kermanshah[2])
20 - Sardar Azmoun (Gonbad-e Kavus, Golestan)

Typical Formation: 1-2-2-3-2-1

Spoiler: NOTES

[1]Mardomi (from "mardom" people) is TTL Persian for a "republic" (OTL "jomhuri" , an Arabic loan).
[2]OTL Eslamabad-e Gharb

 

[New Britain Mapping]

18 more teams left to submit (one each at a time) as we currently have 14 submitted teams

 

[justinNL]

I'm claiming the Macedonian Empire.
It's basicly the otl Byzantine Empire under the late Angeloi dynasty:

But without Trebizond, Cyprus and the parts claimed by Venetia.
But with Serbia and Bulgaria (I'm not good at maps)

I'll make something of it tomorrow.

 

[PNWKing]

Team: Kingdom of Canada
Nickname: The Maple Leaves
Home Stadium, City: Canada Stadium, St.-Laurent
Home Kit: Gray with white stripes
Away Kit: White with gray stripes
Coach: Augustus O'Malley

Roster (23 players)
Goalkeepers:
John Tremblay
John Gaultier
John Riel
Defenders:
Terry Tremel
John O'Rourke
Peter O'Malley
James McKenzie
Midfielders:
Peter Disney
John Albert
Walt Connack
Thomas Moore
Forwards:
Peter Roger
John Merris
Howard Riel
Thomas Riel
Davis Riel
Peter Tremblay
Augustus Tremblay
Elliot Kasich
Lyndon Morris
Peter Jaguar
Edward Random

OTL territories: all of OTL Canada not a part of New England, as well as Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Alaska, and Greenland.

 

[wolfhound817]

Team: Republic of Vermont
Nickname: Green Mountain Boys
Home Stadium, City: Ethan Allen Arena, Colchester
Home Kit: Full Pine Green
Away Kit: Sapphire Blue with the Stars of the Flag on the Front
Coach: Phil Scott

Roster (23 players)
Goalkeepers: A. Irath, C. Coons, W. Leavery (3)
Defenders: X. Menithe, J-P. Fae, C. Santana, P. Simon, Q. Trepits, S. Kinkaid, (6)
Midfielders: S. Stronem, A. Santana, B. Joel, K. Walsh, E. Everyman, L. Holton (6)
Forwards: W. Smith, K. Allen, N. Bouchamp, F. Valley, S. Vernon, D. Sanders, O. Llewyn, N. Scaraman (8)