Foreign-Born World Cup Winners

A list of Foreign-Born Players from World Cup winning nations since the first WC in 1930.

2006
Italy

Mauro Camoranesi
Tandil, Argentina

Simone Perrotta
Ashton-under-Lyne, England

1998
France

Patrick Vieira
Dakar, Senegal

Marcel Desailly
Accra, Ghana

Lilian Thuram
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (technically considered an overseas region of France)

Christian Karembeu
Lifou, New Caledonia (overseas territory of France)

1982
Italy

Claudio Gentile
Tripoli, Libya

1974
West Germany

Herbert Wimmer
Eupen, Belgium

1954
West Germany

Josef Posipal
Lugoj, Romania

Richard Herrmann
Katowice, Poland

1950
Uruguay

Ernesto Vidal
Buie d'Istria, Italy


1938
Italy

Michele Andreolo
Montevideo, Uruguay


1934
Italy

Attilio Demaria
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Enrique Guaita
Lucas González, Argentina

Anfilogino Guarisi
São Paulo, Brazil

Luis Monti
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Raimundo Orsi
Avellaneda, Argentina

Mario Varglien
Fiume, Austria-Hungary (modern day Rijeka, Croatia)


1930
Uruguay

Lorenzo Fernández
Redondela, Spain