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unusual facts about Chelsea F.C. Reserves and Academy



1954–55 Chelsea F.C. season

The 1954–55 season was Chelsea Football Club's 41st of competitive football, their Golden Jubilee and their 20th consecutive year in the English top flight.

2006–07 West Ham United F.C. season

1. Since the finalists of the 2006–07 FA Cup (Manchester United and Chelsea) and the League Cup winners (Chelsea) had already qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League through their Premier League positions, their 2007–08 UEFA Cup places were given to the 6th- and 7th-placed Premier League teams.

Ade Mafe

He is currently unemployed and has previously worked for Chelsea, Millwall, Milton Keynes Dons, West Bromwich Albion and Watford.

Albin Ekdal

Ekdal turned down offers from other clubs including Chelsea and Inter when he was just 16 and 17 years old because his father, the journalist Lennart Ekdal, said he had to finish high school first.

Barry Bridges

Barry John Bridges (born 29 April 1941 in Horsford, Norfolk) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Chelsea, Birmingham City, Queens Park Rangers, Millwall and Brighton & Hove Albion and was capped four times for England.

Brian Abrey

Born in Hendon, London, Abrey was invited to join Chelsea in 1955 by manager Ted Drake, but never managed to break into the first-team during his five-year stay.

Carnlough

Carnlough man Brendan Rodgers, a former Northern Ireland schoolboy international and manager of Chelsea reserves, is the current manager of the Premier League side Liverpool F.C..

Charles Bunyan, Jr.

Bunyan played in Belgium for Racing Club de Bruxelles, and in England for Chelsea.

Chelski

Chelsea F.C., called Chelski in the British media, a reference to Russian owner Roman Abramovich.

Colin West

The next season he scored three goals over the two legs in the League Cup semi-final win over Chelsea, but was left out of the Wembley final by manager Len Ashurst.

David and Simon Reuben

They also came across several members of the country's new oligarchy, including Roman Abramovich, now owner of Chelsea F.C.

Davide Somma

In December 2008 he joined the Generation Adidas team in London for a three-game tour of England and scored two goals for the squad as they faced the reserve teams of Reading, Chelsea, and West Ham United.

Dawlish Town A.F.C.

At the beginning of the 1987–88 season, Dawlish played host to Aberdeen and in season 1988–89 both Chelsea and Watford visited Dawlish.

Di Matteo

Roberto Di Matteo, a former Italian professional footballer, and former manager of Chelsea F.C.

Emmanuel Petit

After his first season at the Camp Nou, he was linked with moves back to England with Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea.

Eric Avila

In December 2008, Avila traveled to England with fellow FC Dallas teammates Bruno Guarda, Josh Lambo, and Anthony Wallace along with other Generation Adidas players for friendlies against the reserve squads of Chelsea, Reading, and Aston Villa.

FA Cup Final

With his goal in the 2012 Final, Chelsea's Didier Drogba became the first man to score a goal in four different Finals.

Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Great Britain was captained by Vivian Woodward, a record-scoring centre-forward from Chelsea, who had formed part of Great Britain's gold medal winning side of the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Futera

Futera held Official Trading Card Licences in the '90s/early 2000s for UK Premier League clubs Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds, Aston Villa, West Ham and Scottish Premier League club Celtic plus Newcastle, Derby County, Middlesbrough and Manchester City.

Garry Ayre

With the Cosmos, Ayre played in Soccer Bowl '78 as a substitute as well as a tour of Europe in the fall of 1978, where the team played against Red Star Belgrade, AEK Athens, Atlético Madrid, Galatasaray and Chelsea.

GOALTV

This included live games from three major European leagues as well as behind-the-scenes access to three Premier League clubs in England, Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool, in addition to FC Barcelona & Real Madrid FC of Spain.

Gordon Bolland

A striker, Bolland joined Londoners Chelsea as a teenager, and was a member of the sides which won the FA Youth Cup in 1960 and 1961, alongside the likes of Peter Bonetti, Ron Harris, Terry Venables and Bobby Tambling.

Graham Roberts

He joined Chelsea in August 1988 for £475,000 and helped the side emphatically win the Second Division championship in 1988–89.

Hayley Okines

London's Chelsea Football Club raised thousands of dollars through a charity raffle in Okines's honor.

Ian Pearce

Pearce started his career at Oxted & District FC then moved to Chelsea during the 1991–92 season.

Joaquín Sánchez

In the following campaign's UEFA Champions League, Joaquín appeared in all six group stage games for Betis, including the 1–0 triumph over Chelsea and a 0–0 draw against Liverpool, at Anfield (third-place finish, UEFA Cup "demotion").

Joe Bacuzzi

His most notable guest appearances came in November 1945 when Bacuzzi played for both Chelsea and Arsenal in their prestige friendlies against a touring FC Dynamo Moscow.

John Fredriksen

He collects classic Norwegian art, and reportedly turned down an offer of $200m (£180m) from Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich for his Chelsea home.

Jorge Valdano

It's not: it's shit hanging from a stick ... if football is going the way Chelsea and Liverpool are taking it, we had better be ready to wave goodbye to any expression of the cleverness and talent we have enjoyed for a century.

Manchester Regional Arena

It has hosted the AAA Championships and Paralympic World Cup, and was the reserve home ground of the Manchester City reserve team prior to moving to Ewen Fields in June 2010.

Matías Suárez

He went on to establish himself as a key member of the Anderlecht side contributing many goals and assists in the process, especially following the departure of the team's star player Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea in the summer of 2011.

Matthew Amoah

He is a member of the Ghanaian Golden Era of footballers including Fulham right back John Paintsil and Chelsea versatile midfielder Michael Essien and former captain Steven Appiah who now plays for Italian Club Cesena and formerly Fenerbahçe SK and Juventus player.

Michael Duberry

Duberry attended Enfield Grammar School in London and started his career at Chelsea where he was a trainee and made his début during the 1993–94 season, before a brief loan period with Bournemouth.

Mohammad Hardi Jaafar

Hardi also represented the Malaysia XI (Malaysia B) squad against Chelsea F.C. at Shah Alam Stadium on 29 July 2008.

Muhammad Shukor Adan

He represented the Malaysia XI (Malaysia Selection) squad as captain against Chelsea at Shah Alam Stadium on July 29, 2008.

Nicolai Boilesen

Having had various trial periods with clubs such as Manchester United, Fiorentina and Chelsea, and with his Brøndby contract expiring in December 2009, Boilesen agreed a move to the Netherlands, with Ajax paying Brøndby 4 million DKK in compensation (roughly € 500.000).

Nike Total 90

The boot's official on-pitch debut was on 18 September 2011, when Wayne Rooney and Fernando Torres wore them in Manchester United's Premier League match against Chelsea.

No One Can Stop Us Now

"No One Can Stop Us Now" was a single released by the English football team Chelsea in 1994.

North Greenford United F.C.

On Boxing Day 2011, the club confirmed the appointment of ex Chelsea, Wimbledon and Crystal Palace striker Neil Shipperley as their new manager.

Peter Shreeves

From 1993 to 1996 he was assistant manager at Chelsea before Glenn Hoddle became England manager and Ruud Gullit did not include Shreeves in his management team.

Quinn brothers' killings

The then Chelsea F.C. chairman, Ken Bates, offered a £100,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for the attackers.

Samir Carruthers

On 1 April 2013, Carruthers captained Aston Villa's youth squad to the final of the NextGen Series where they beat Chelsea 2–0, at the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, in Como, Italy.

Sky 3D

Sky 3D is a 3D television channel on the Sky platform, that launched on 3 April 2010 with the Manchester United vs Chelsea football match being broadcast in over a thousand pubs across the UK and Ireland in 3D.

Steve Kean

In June 2008, it was reported that Kean was in talks with Chelsea to become assistant manager to Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Tony Strudwick

In April 2008, Strudwick was involved in an altercation between some of Manchester United's players, including Patrice Evra and Gary Neville, and the ground staff at Chelsea.

Vincent Angban

Vincent Atchouailou de Paul Angban (born 2 February 1985 in Anyama) is an Ivorian footballer playing as a goalkeeper for Ivorian Premier Division club Jeunesse and English Premiership club Chelsea.

Vitor Coutinho Flora

In 2008 he moved to Liverpool Reserves.


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