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2 unusual facts about Reserve team


Reserve team

An example is Toyota Automated Loom Works, founding member of the JSL in 1965, later relegated and now competing in the Aichi Prefecture league, and Toyota Motors, now known as Nagoya Grampus, founding member and mainstay of the J. League.

Wally Kopf

At the start of the 1922 season, Kopf was a member of the Giants second team, which was compiled of players who were cut from New York's spring training roster and assigned to a team that played minor league teams in Texas.


Anthony Lozano

In August 2010 Lozano spent time training with Tottenham Hotspur's reserve team, impressing manager Harry Redknapp.

R League

Korea Professional Football Reserve League (Hangul: R리그), or R League for short, is the league for reserve teams of the top football clubs in South Korea.


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2002–03 Watford F.C. season

The club was managed by its former reserve team manager Ray Lewington, following the dismissal of Gianluca Vialli at the end of 2001–02.

Alejandro Corona

Born in Pachuca, Corona began playing football with Pachuca's reserve team in the Segunda División de México.

Aleksandr Kislitsyn

Born in Karaganda, Kislitsyn began playing football with the reserve team of local side FC Shakhter in 2004.

Bobby Despotovski

When Despotovski was 15 he had a choice to continue either Handball which he says has always played a large part in his life or to pursue a career in professional football, eventually he chose football and was selected to play for the reserve team at his first senior club, Dinamo Pančevo.

Bobby Harrop

52 appearances came over the next two seasons and he carried on playing until he was nearly 50, finally hanging up his boots at the end of the 1984–85 season with Dover Athletic, where he was also in charge of the reserve team.

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.

Carlos Monteagudo

In December 2008, Monteagudo along with his club and national team teammate Manuel Salazar, both were invited to have trials with Mexican Primera División A team Monterrey 1a. A (effectively CF Monterreys reserve team), with the hopes of signing with the clubs second division side.

Corry Evans

By then, he had already become a regular in the club's Under-18 side, and he even made his debut for the reserve team on 31 October 2005, coming on as a substitute for Sam Hewson in a 5–1 away defeat by Oldham Athletic.

Danny McGrain

He became one of the so-called 'Quality Street Gang', the great Celtic reserve team that also included players such as Kenny Dalglish, Lou Macari, Davie Hay and George Connelly, who eventually took the places of the ageing Lisbon Lions.

David Geddis

Most recently, Geddis was Reserve Team Coach at Leeds United, a job he took up after scouting for England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson and the English FA at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

David Soames

Soames, nicknamed Digger, signed professional football terms with Grimsby Town in October 2002 following an injury crisis at the club, he was part of a decent reserve team strike force that also boasted Darren Mansaram.

Dennis Rofe

In 1984, he joined Southampton’s coaching staff under the manager Chris Nicholl, initially as the reserve team coach, moving up to first team coach in 1987.

Diego Contento

In January 2010, it was announced that Contento would train with the first-team for the rest of the 2009–10 season, along with reserve team-mates David Alaba and Mehmet Ekici.

Dominik Starkl

Starkl's impressive start to life in Hütteldorf saw him quickly promoted from the youth ranks into the reserve team squad.

FC Obolon-2 Kyiv

The team completed as the second or reserve team for FC Obolon Kyiv but left the professional ranks early in 2013.

Frederick K. Cox International Law Center

The Center sponsors conferences, visiting lecturers, the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, the Case Western Reserve team for the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the Summer Institute for Global Justice, and the War Crimes Research Office.

Graeme Owens

After good performances for the reserve team, he was included in the first team squad for the trip to Bristol City in the FA Cup, and although he didn't make the final sixteen, manager Gareth Southgate suggested he was one to watch for the future.

Hermann Stöcker

After helping the reserve team win promotion to the DDR-Liga by scoring two goals in the decisive play-off match, Stöcker was given an official farewell before the kickoff to a friendly against Barada SC on 26 July 1969.

Jean-Christophe Bahebeck

Ahead of the 2010–11 season, Bahebeck was promoted to the club's reserve team in the Championnat de France amateur, the fourth level of French football.

Jodie Taylor

That term she scored 109 goals across 125 games for Oldershaw School, Merseyside Under–16s and Tranmere's reserve team.

Johnny Carlyle

Carlyle learned to skate at his local ice rink in Falkirk, where he also learned to play ice hockey with the Falkirk Lions reserve team, the Falkirk Cubs.

Junior Fernándes

Later, in 2007, he was sent on loan to Municipal Mejillones (another third division team) after Cobreloa gave up their reserve team.

Ken Ilsø

However, Ilsø never managed to break through Heerenveen's reserve team, so he decided to return to Denmark to play for SønderjyskE.

Martín Benítez

He travelled to the Netherlands with the reserve team to play a friendly against Ajax.

Nampalys Mendy

In the 2009–10 season, Mendy was promoted to the club's reserve team full-time, who were now playing in the Championnat de France amateur 2 after suffering relegation the previous season.

Oliver Norwood

2009–10 was a big season for Norwood, as he made the full step up to the reserve team and also received his first call-up to the first-team for their Champions League group stage match away to Wolfsburg.

Peng Weiguo

On 21 May 2012, he became the reserve team coach of Guangzhou Evergrande F.C., just a few days after Marcello Lippi took over as the new head coach.

Petar Filipović

A product of the FC St. Pauli academy, Filipović played mostly in their reserve team, making his debut, and his only Bundesliga appearance so far on 14 May 2011, entering for Dennis Daube in a game vs. 1. FSV Mainz 05.

Şaban Özdoğan

He moved to Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB) in 1999, the reserve team of multiple Danish champions F.C. Copenhagen (FCK).

Sadio Mané

Born in Sédhiou, Mané joined the French club Metz in the summer of 2011, initially as a reserve team player.

Scott Dann

He moved up the ranks at Walsall to become a regular in the reserve team throughout 2004–05 and was allowed to join Danish side Køge BK on loan towards the end of the campaign.

Simone Grippo

Grippo came through the ranks in the FC Basel youth system and played for two years in their reserve team.

Steve Harper

He has a social sciences degree from the Open University, for which he studied whilst playing for the Newcastle reserve team.

Sven Kums

He presented 13 years the youth and reserve team from R.S.C. Anderlecht, also he was loaned out in January 2007 to Lierse S.K..

T. G. Jones

Once the relations with the manager Theo Kelly became so bad that he was even not picked for the reserve team, and played secretly for Hawarden Grammar Old Boys.

Wally Hardinge

He also had a spell as a coach of Tottenham Hotspur's reserve team in the 1930s and for a short period became caretaker manager of the First Team in 1935 after the rapid departure of Percy Smith.

Wan Houliang

Wan Houliang would start his career playing for his hometown club Beijing Huaya's youth team before going on a football training course in Serbia where he played for third tier side FK ČSK Pivara's youth and reserve team.

Wilf McGuinness

He returned to his old job as reserve team manager before leaving the club at the end of the season to become manager of Greek side Aris Thessaloniki.

Woodcote

The First team plays in the Reading Football League Senior Division; the Reserve team plays in the Reading Football League Division Two, and the Youth team plays in the South Chiltern Minor League Division One.

Xavier Hochstrasser

Xavier also has an older brother, Steve (b. 1986), who plays for AC Ajaccio's reserve team in Corsica, France.