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4 unusual facts about First Choice


Air 2000

In 1998 First Choice acquired rival tour operator Unijet including their in-house airline Leisure International Airways.

Air UK Leisure

In 1998 First Choice acquired the airline when it took over Unijet, the aircraft fleet and operations were taken over by the First Choice airline Air 2000.

Philly Groove Records

The label's best-known artists were male vocal group, the Delfonics and female group, First Choice.

Walter Gibbons

These feature Gibbons' mixes of tracks by the likes of Loleatta Holloway, The Salsoul Orchestra, Double Exposure, First Choice, Love Committee and Anthony White among others.


Gold Mind Records

These tracks date from the late 1970s; a couple of years later, Salsoul (with the help of Shep Pettibone) would revive some of the Gold Mind tracks like "Let No Man Put Asunder", First Choice's "Dr. Love", and Loleatta Holloway's "Love Sensation" for the early 1980s dance jams auditions.


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Alf Kirchen

A outside right, Kirchen had to fight for a first team spot with Joe Hulme (who started the 1936 FA Cup Final ahead of him), but by the start of the 1936-37 season, Kirchen was the Gunners' first-choice outside right.

Angelo da Costa Júnior

Costa once again became the first choice for the return leg in Varese's Stadio Franco Ossola.

Antolín Alcaraz

Alcaraz was again first-choice for Paraguay during the 2011 Copa América, held in Argentina.

Arkadiusz Onyszko

In 2003 he transferred to Odense Boldklub, where he spent the next six years as OB's first choice goalkeeper.

Armel Koulara

An agile and sprightly goalkeeper in addition to being a penalty specialist, Armel is Gazelle's first choice penalty taker, following in the footsteps of other goal-scoring 'keepers such as Brazilian Rogério Ceni, Vincent Enyeama of Hapoel Tel Aviv and Nigeria, Hans-Jörg Butt of FC Bayern Munich and José Luis Chilavert, formerly of Paraguay.

Barlow Carkeek

He toured England in 1909 as the second wicketkeeper to Sammy Carter and came back in 1912 as first choice on the tour that was blighted by the dispute between Australia's leading Test players and the Australian Board of Control.

Bellanca Airfield

His $25,000 WB-2 monoplane, Columbia, was the first choice of Charles Lindbergh for his trans-Atlantic flight after, on April 25, 1927, Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta set the world endurance record for aircraft, staying aloft circling New York City for 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds and covering 4,100 miles, more than the 3,600 mile from New York to Paris.

Bobby Etheridge

He was generally the understudy to Barry Meyer who was the county first choice wicket keeper in this period.

Brian Joicey

During his time with Coventry Joicey was never an automatic selection for the first team and played a large amount of reserve team football as Neil Martin was preferred as first choice centre forward.

Brian Levey

On March 14, 2008, Levey signed with the Carolina RailHawks of the USL First Division as a back-up to Chris McClellan, and continued with the team into the 2009 season as cover for first-choice goalkeepers Caleb Patterson-Sewell and Eric Reed.

Carlos Roa

Roa was first-choice for the Argentine national team at the 1998 World Cup.

Colin Stewart

Stewart was first choice goalkeeper throughout the second half of season 2006–07 for First Division side Livingston, where he played the last dozen or so games after ousting Mariusz Liberda from the number one jersey.

Custódio Castro

In his first year with Braga, Custódio battled for first-choice status with Brazilians Leandro Salino and Vandinho, but managed to appear in nearly 25 official games.

Daniel Yeboah

In recent times, he has improved his skills to the extent of outclassing the first choice ‘keeper of the club, Vincent Angban. Excellent stops, game reading, good communication with his defence and he shows some classic shot-stopping abilities reminiscent of Alain Gouaméné, one of Africa’s legendary goalkeepers.

Dave Bacuzzi

Bacuzzi started the 1965–66 season as the first choice right-back under new manager Joe Mercer but as the season went on, he found his place taken by Bobby Kennedy.

Dave Clancy

After this, Clancy would re-sign for the Freeze in 2006 and re-establish himself as the first choice goaltender ahead of another ex-Phoenix goalie, Matt Compton.

Dave MacLaren

He joined Leicester City and immediately won promotion to the First Division as he became first choice, but he lost his place to the emerging Gordon Banks during the 1959–60 season.

Derek O'Connor

The then manager of Town, Brian Horton, had mysteriously dropped first choice keeper Steve Francis, and put in O'Connor, who had only played 50 minutes of first-team football before the game.

Ed de Goey

He was first choice goalkeeper for most of his time in West London, and was a member of the sides that won the League Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup (both in 1998) and the FA Cup in 2000.

Emerson da Conceição

Emerson became first-choice from his third season onwards, and contributed with 20 league matches in 2010–11, as Les Dogues won their first national championship in 57 years.

Enyo Krastovchev

Due to Georgi Hristov's bad patch of form over a number of games, Krastovchev gradually managed to establish himself as the first choice forward for Levski Sofia, scoring a number of important goals like in the 3:2 away win against FC Sportist Svoge.

Eric Stoltz

Originally cast as Marty McFly for Back to the Future in 1985, he was replaced after five weeks of filming, when Michael J. Fox (the director's first choice for the role) agreed to divide time between the movie and his television sitcom, Family Ties.

Felipe Ventura dos Santos

In summer 2010, Genoa and Corinthians formed a deal to sign Felipe, as Genoa has loaned their first choice keeper Marco Amelia to A.C. Milan, and the Brazilian side signed Aldo Bobadilla as replacement.

Frank Parry

During his time at Goodison Park, he was never able to replace Sam Chedgzoy as the club's first choice right-winger, and in June 1926 he joined Football League Second Division side Grimsby Town.

Jesper Christiansen

When first choice goalkeeper Stefan Klos returned from his injury, he once again took control of the goalkeeper spot.

Joe Hulme

He returned to the Arsenal side the following season, 1934–35, and won his third league winners' medal with 16 appearances, although by now injury and losses of form meant he was not an automatic first choice, sharing duties with Pat Beasley and Alf Kirchen.

Joël Kiassumbua

Although playing prior to the tournament, he remained an unused substitute at the tournament itself, unable to displace first choice Benjamin Siegrist who would go on to win the Golden Glove.

Joey Williams

Returning the following season, he made only nine appearance as understudy to Joe Hulme and Cliff Bastin, who had established themselves as first-choice wingers, and missed out on a third Championship medal.

Joggie Viljoen

Viljoen, a native of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, currently resides in New Zealand and is the first choice scrum-half for Manawatu in the NPC.

Jonathan Gould

During 1999–2000 Gould generally remained the first-choice goalkeeper at Parkhead despite the arrival of Dmitri Kharine, and picked up another Scottish League Cup winner's medal when Celtic defeated Aberdeen 2-0 in the final on 19 March 2000.

Ken Mulhearn

Mulhearn started the following season as first choice, but was dropped following a European Cup defeat to Fenerbahçe, in which his failure to claim a cross resulted in a winning goal for the Turkish side, leading Malcolm Allison to blame him for the defeat.

Lee Bum-Young

After entering the match as a late substitute for injured first-choice goalkeeper Jung Sung-Ryong, he saved Great Britain's fifth kick from Daniel Sturridge in the penalty shootout.

Liz Pike

The Cowlitz and Clark county commissioners had selected Pike, despite Vick being the first choice of the district's Precinct Committee Officers.

Lorenzo Squizzi

But Squizzi was promoted to first choice in the 2 round (ahead youth product Mattia Passarini) and played one UEFA Cup match verse Sporting Braga.

Luis Pedro Figueroa

During recovery, Palmeiras announced the arrival of Vítor, who would be the first choice as right back following Figueroa's recovery.

Mariposa Battalion

Sheriff Burney was the first choice for the Major to command the unit, but Burney declined due to his other responsibilities in Mariposa.

Moussa Koussa

The letter stated that Brockmann was nominated, as Ali Treki, also a former General Assembly president who was their first choice, was denied a visa to enter the United States under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.

Paul Connolly

Despite initial being kept out of the starting line-up by Tyrone Mears, the latter's move to Marseille on loan ensure Connolly became the club's first choice right back and, later appointed team captain by manager Paul Jewell.

Pavel Srníček

Born in Ostrava, Srníček was originally signed by Newcastle in December 1990 on loan from Banik Ostrava by manager Jim Smith, who left within months to be succeeded by Ossie Ardiles - by this time his transfer had been made permanent, and he was soon established as the club's first-choice goalkeeper after the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager in February 1992.

Rainer Wirth

Wirth ever played with regularity at Católica, but in January 2006, was loaned to Deportes Temuco for gain more experience under the three posts, returning the same year in June as the first-choice goalkeeper of Católica for replace to José María Buljubasich, operated of his bening brain tumor.

Raïs M'Bolhi

After some unstable performance from Ivan Karadzhov and Zdravko Chavdarov, M'Bolhi was expected to be the first choice goalkeeper for the rest of the first half of the season and the group stage of UEFA Europa League and he indeed established himself as the main goalkeeper for the "redmen".

Ricardo Janota

While a youngster with Benfica, he represented his country at under-16 level, and was first-choice goalkeeper at the European under-17 championship finals, at which Portugal's under-17s beat England 3–2 on penalties to win the third-place play-off; Janota saved the decisive penalty.

Robin Olsen

Previously to the start of the 2014 season the club sold Johan Dahlin, making Olsen the first choice goalkeeper.

Ron Springett

He had been the first choice goalkeeper during the 1962 World Cup in Chile when England reached the quarter finals.

Rowen Fernández

Fernández lost his place as first choice goalkeeper to Dennis Eilhoff after injury.

Rui Marques

With Sam Sodje's loan spell over and captain Richard Naylor injured, Marques found himself as first choice central defence partnership with Patrick Kisnorbo at the start of the 2009–10 season, He lost his starting place when Marques suffered an achilles injury whilst on international duty in September, and dropped down the pecking order when he was out injured when Leeds completed the signing of Leigh Bromby.

Russell Anderson

Upon returning to the side for a 3-0 win over Millwall at the end of September, Anderson played a role in 7 of Derby's next 8 games, often employed at right-back in the absence of first choice John Brayford.

Saku Pesonen

He was signed by Veikkausliiga side FC Lahti on 2006 where he provided a backup for then-first choice goalkeeper Michał Sławuta.