Which European ethnicities are best at each sport?

[Pribislav]

Nope, Montenegro has less than 1M people and Serbia has 7M.
In basketball Lithuania is similary sucessfull as Serbia but with much smaller population (3M).

Tennis - sure

Read about Serbian and montenigga trophies in water polo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia...ater_polo_team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monten...ater_polo_team

Serbia has more!


Btw I must admit that most of Serbian water polo players are born in Montenegro or they have roots from Montenegro.

[mattp]

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[21993]

Basketball: Serbians
Football: Brits

[Tenma de Pegasus]

In football, Spain is the only european team. Others are mostly african foreigners.

[oszkar07]

Handball - Iceland
Water Polo - Montenegro
Basketball - Lithuania, Slovenia
Football- Croatia

Over time Hungary has had the most succesful Olympic Water Polo Teams.

Medal table
As of 28 July 2018
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Hungary 12 6 6 24
2 Soviet Union 5 3 2 10
3 Serbia 5 1 1 7
4 Italy 3 2 6 11
5 Germany 2 3 3 8
6 Serbia and Montenegro 2 1 0 3
7 Yugoslavia 1 7 4 12
8 Croatia 1 2 1 4
9 Montenegro 1 2 0 3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...o_Championship

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

Over time Hungary has had the most succesful Olympic Water Polo Teams.

Medal table
As of 28 July 2018[1]
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Hungary 12 6 6 24
2 Soviet Union 5 3 2 10
3 Serbia 5 1 1 7
4 Italy 3 2 6 11
5 Germany 2 3 3 8
6 Serbia and Montenegro 2 1 0 3
7 Yugoslavia 1 7 4 12
8 Croatia 1 2 1 4
9 Montenegro 1 2 0 3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...o_Championship

Yes but Hungary has 10 times bigger population than Monteniggas and is much older country. They exist since mid 2000s.

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

In football, Spain is the only european team. Others are mostly african foreigners.

Lmao

[Mikael19]

With regards to Spaniards being best at football, I'm not only talking about recent times but throughout history

Should be Germany then. Or France.

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

Read about Serbian and montenigga trophies in water polo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia...ater_polo_team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monten...ater_polo_team

Serbia has more!

Btw I must admit that most of Serbian water polo players are born in Montenegro or they have roots from Montenegro.

Croatia is current World Champion in Water Polo bruv.

[Bellbeaking]

Basketball: Serbians
Football: Brits

England is awful at football, at least on national level, even tiny Croatia is possibly better

In football, Spain is the only European team. Others are mostly African foreigners.

Spain has a lot of foreigners in their team too, more than say, Sweden or Poland