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unusual facts about first team



Aaron Grundy

He made his first team début on 18 October 2005 in the first round of the Football League Trophy against Halifax Town, which Bury lost 6–1, as a 16th minute substitute, replacing striker Tom Youngs, after keeper Craig Dootson had been sent off.

Danny Fox

Fox was born in Winsford, Cheshire and learnt his trade at his boyhood club Everton's youth system but the closest he came to a first team appearance was as an 18-year-old being named on the bench for Everton's home match against Aston Villa in October 2004.

Javier Aquino

He waited years for an opportunity, until the Apertura 2010 season where he was taken into consideration, together with other youth players to join the first team.

Wally Akers

Born in West Auckland, he began his professional career with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1934, but left the club without ever playing for the first team, and joined Newport County, where he experienced a similar spell.


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2007 Missouri Tigers football team

Senior Tight End Martin Rucker and Freshman Wide Receiver Jeremy Maclin (as an All-Purpose player) were named as first team selections, while Junior Quarterback Chase Daniel and Junior Safety William Moore were named to the second team.

2012 Australian Baseball League postseason

The Perth Heat were the first team to clinch a postseason position when they defeated the Brisbane Bandits in Perth on 8 January, and then clinched a first place finish in their next game when they defeated the Canberra Cavalry in Canberra on 12 January.

APW/Vendetta Pro Unified Tag Team Championship

On January 5, 2013, The Suburban Commandos (T-Rent and D-Unit) defeated SU/KA and the defending Champiosn The Ballard Brothers in a Triangle Tag Team Match in Hayward, California to become the first team to win the Unified Tag Team Titles on an All Pro Wrestling Event.

Breno Borges

On 14 November 2010, Breno returned to first team action, playing in the 3–0 home win against his former club 1. FC Nürnberg.

Bronco Mendenhall

Junior wide receiver Austin Collie was named to six different All-America teams, including first-team All-America from CBSSports.com and second-team from The Associated Press.

Byron Westbrook

In addition, he was a three-time All-Atlantic Central Football Conference first-team selection at defensive back and was a two-time first-team selection on special teams.

Chris Melling

Melling returned to full fitness in 2006, but found first team opportunities limited, due to the emergence of Chris Ashton at the club.

Chris Whelan

Whelan then returned to first-team action, and in June returned his best List A figures of 4–78 against the New Zealanders at Worcester.

Constantinos Tsakiris

One of his first actions was to alter the name of Panionios to its original name Panionios GSS (which stands for "Πανιώνιος Γυμνάστικος Σύλλογος Σμύρνης" or Panionios Gymnastic Club of Smyrna) and hire Ewald Lienen as first team manager.

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.

Devin Del Do

Del Do grew up in Valencia, California, played for the West Valley Samba club team, and attended Hart High School where he was twice named to the All-Foothill League first team, and was his team's Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year as both a junior and senior.

Eddie Stanford

During a two-year term with the club, he managed only one first team appearance, coming on as a 73rd minute substitute for Dean Gordon in a 2-0 away defeat by Millwall on 4 May 2003.

Eduard Iordănescu

After playing for Steaua Bucureşti's youth teams, Iordănescu was promoted to the first team in 1996 along with his former teammate Alin Stoica.

El-Sayed El-Dhizui

He quickly became a regular in the first team helping the club to win six titles in the Canal Zone League in 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, and 1948, also reaching three Egyptian Cup finals.

Emil Larsen

In his first season as a professional for Lyngby Boldklub, after joining the first team in fall 2009, he gained high praise from coach Niels Frederiksen.

Emilio Aldecoa

His first team debut came in September that year, a 2-1 victory away to Crewe Alexandra and he finished the season as Wolves’ leading scorer with 11 goals in 30 games.

Enrique Ramos González

Born in Madrid, Ramos finished his football formation at Atlético Madrid, making his first-team debuts in 1979 and proceeding to be a regular fixture for the following nine years, helping the capital side to the 1985 Copa del Rey and Supercopa de España.

Filip Hološko

Regarding the huge amount paid, and two first team regulars given to an exchange deal, both Yıldırım Demirören and Beşiktaş J.K. board have severely been criticized by media pundits.

Gonzalo Herrero

A product of local giants Racing de Santander's youth system, Gonzalo made his first team debut on 13 December 2012, starting in a 3–2 home victory against Rayo Vallecano, for Copa del Rey.

Hamilton Academical F.C.

Goalkeeper Tomas Cerny made his move from SK Sigma Olomouc permanent at £180k (triple the previous record), while James McCarthy moved to Wigan Athletic for almost £1.2m after a successful stint with the first team which all started from former Academy director John Bean.

Haris Brkić

One year later he returned to Belgrade, beginning the 1993–94 season with the Partizan first team led by the also newly arrived head coach Željko Lukajić.

Henry McStay

Henry began his club career with Leeds United without ever breaking through in to the first team, this was primarily due to the abundance of riches Leeds had in Henry's position at the time, players such as Lucas Radebe, Jonathan Woodgate and Rio Ferdinand already established centre backs for the Whites.

Hinckley United F.C.

For the 2010–11 season Platnauer, took more of a coaching role, whilst first team coach Stuart Storer took over the role of assistant manager.

Hyka

Skënder Hyka, played football with 17 Nëntori, from the youth team to the first team, being the main players of the club.

Joel DeLass

DeLass attended Western Michigan Christian High School, who he helped lead to State and League Championships, and where he was a First Team All-State, All-Region, All-District, All-Area and All-Conference selection in 2003 and 2004

John Askey

John stayed on as assistant manager and, with the arrival of Paul Ince moved to Youth Team manager where he was influential in the arrivals of Shaun Brisley, Matthew Flynn, Kristian Dennis and John Rooney into the first-team squad.

John Sydenham

At this time John first joined forces with another young winger, Terry Paine, and before long both players were regulars in Saints’ first team, tearing Third Division defences to pieces.

Juan Antonio Larrañaga

In January 1980 he made his first-team debut in the Copa del Rey, against Navarre neighbours Peña Sport FC.

Junior Aparecido Guimaro de Souza

Juninho made a surprise move to BBCU F.C. at Thai Premier League on 4 June 2012 in a six-month contract on loan, where he quickly gained first team experience in Southeast Asia Club at Thailand.

Kathryn Leng

In April 1999, Leng played for Yorkshire Bank first team in the Bradford Cricket League, the first woman to play in that league, and became the first woman to play inter UCCE cricket in 2001.

Kelvin Leerdam

Because of the departure of the right backs Theo Lucius, Serginho Greene and Dwight Tiendalli, Leerdam remained at Feyenoord and is mainly used as the stand-in for first team right back Dani Fernández.

Lampros Choutos

Choutos returned to his country in that summer, signing with Panionios GSS, but was only eligible to start playing in the following January; he again began experiencing first-team football, and notably scored two of three at Athens Olympic Sports Complex, helping defeat hosts AEK Athens F.C. and collecting the Man of the Match award.

Larry English

In 2007 English was the Mid-American Conference's MVP and was a consensus choice First-team All-MAC and a Fourth-team All-American by Phil Steele as he recorded 17 tackles for loss–which ranked 18th in the NCAA.

Maik Wagefeld

Wagefeld joined Dynamo Dresden as a 13-year old in 1994, and broke into the first team towards the end of the 1999–2000 season, after Cor Pot had taken over as Dynamo manager.

Manatee High School

Two of his players were selected to the USA Today HS Football team, First Team: Tommie Frazier, quarterback (1990) and Rob Stevenson, punter (1994).

Mansour Kasse

In 2011/2012, he has been a dominant power-forward in Real Madrid B (Spanish’s EBA division), coached by Alberto Angulo, and he has been training and traveling with the Real Madrid's first team, in Spanish ACB League and Euroleague.

Marco Djuricin

Over the 2012 summer break, new Hertha manager Jos Luhukay announced that Djuricin, along with Sebastian Neumann and Fanol Perdedaj, would no longer be a part of Hertha's first team.

Martyn Booty

Born in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, Booty started his career as a trainee at Coventry City, but struggled to break into the first team.

Matt Light

In his senior season, 2000, Light earned first-team All-Big Ten recognition after starting 12 games at left tackle, helping an offensive line that gave up only seven sacks en route to a Big Ten title and Rose Bowl Game appearance.

Michael Giffin

While at Queen's University, he was chosen a first-team All-Canadian in 2007 and 2008, and became the first Queen's player to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a single season in school history.

Oratia United

Its first team currently plays in the NRFL Division 2 The team competed in the northern section of the now-defunct Superclub competition in 1993 and 1994.

Peter Berg Hestad

His father Stein Olav Hestad holds the club record for most first-team appearances of all-time, and his brother Daniel Berg Hestad and uncles Harry Hestad and Odd Berg also played many years at the club.

Sandro DeAngelis

DeAngelis starred at fullback and linebacker for St. Joseph’s Collegiate in Buffalo, N.Y. and earned First-Team All-Western New York honours as a kicker in 1999, connecting on four field goals, while kicking 70 percent of his kickoffs into the end zone.

Shady Mohamed

Shady began his career with Alexandria's Club Koroum with the youth team and made his depute with First team in 1997/98 season and spent successful 2 seasons before joining El Ahly.

Simon Grand

He began the 2003–04 season in the first team and was a regular until January 2004 when, having made 21 appearances in all competition, he was dropped from the side following the arrival of new manager Steve Parkin.

Three Bridges L.F.C.

During this time Faye White joined the club at 13 and was fast-tracked into the first team at 14.

Tom Mercey

On 21 January 2006 Mercey made his debut for the Saracens first team in a Heineken Cup game against Biarritz Olympique.

Tyrone McKenzie

McKenzie attended Riverview High School where he was a first-team All-Hillsborough County selection by the Tampa Tribune and second-team all-county pick by the St. Petersburg Times as a running back.

Vladan Milojević

Born in Aranđelovac, Milojević began playing football in the youth team of Red Star Belgrade, before playing for the first team of Yugoslav league sides FK Bečej and FK Radnički Novi Beograd.