Quiz! Can you name all 30 South American players to appear in the Premier League in 2017/18?

Back when the Premier League first started, South Americans were a rarely seen attraction. They tended to prefer the homelier lands of Spain, Portugal or somewhere else that doesn’t get quite so freezing in the winter.

However as the Prem has become a more diverse (and richer) league, we’ve been blessed to see some fine South American talents, troubling British pundits with their wooly gloves and dazzling technique.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.