Laravel Models and displaying them on view together - laravel

Question

For a school assignment we have two tables and models players and countries
I know its either my models or my controller (I've had this problem before but in another assignment their was only one country so i just looped through a country variable and used arrays instead but this wont work for multiple countries)
When I try to display in the view i get "Trying to get property of non-object 'name' on the {{$player->country->name}} and this is the way the teacher has explicitly said we are to display it.
Currently before anything else id like to display all my players and their country names
Models
class Country extends Model
{
//
protected $table = 'countries';
protected $fillable=['name','flag'];
public function player(){
return $this->hasMany(Player::class);
}
}
class Player extends Model
{
//
protected $fillable =['name','age','role','batting','bowling','image','odiRuns','countries_id'];
public function country()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Country::class);
}
}
Tables
public function up()
{
Schema::create('countries', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('flag');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
public function up()
{
Schema::create('players', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->integer('age');
$table->string('role');
$table->string('batting');
$table->string('bowling');
$table->string('image');
$table->string('odiRuns');
$table->integer('countries_id')->unsigned();
$table->foreign('countries_id')->references('id')->on('countries');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
Controller
use App\Player;
use App\Country;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class PlayerController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
//
$players=Player::all();
return view('index',compact('players'));
}
View
#extends('layout')
#section('content')
#foreach ($players as $player )
{{$player->name}}
{{$player->age}}
{{$player->role}}
{{$player->batting}}
{{$player->bowling}}
{{$player->odiRuns}}
{{$player->country->name}}
#endforeach
#endsection
Edit
players all have country id's relating to the countries table
Tables
players table
countries table

Answer 1

The problem is your missing foreign key in relation. When you are defining a relationship, if you explicitly don't tell which foreign key to use for the relationship, Laravel looks for a foreign key like relationname_primarykeyoftheparenttable. In your case its country_id but in your players table the column name is countries_id. So relationship is not building and you are getting error. Change the column name or tell the relationship which foreign key to use to build the relationship.
class Player extends Model
{
protected $fillable =['name','age','role','batting','bowling','image','odiRuns','countries_id'];
public function country()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Country::class,'countries_id');
}
}
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