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4 unusual facts about footballers


Association football culture

Such extravagance has recently been satirised in the British TV show Footballers' Wives.

Football Wives

The show is based on the successful British television series Footballers' Wives (though it features American football rather than the British original's association football), and follows the dramatic private lives of the players from the fictional NFL team the Orlando Stingrays.

Francesca Kingdon

Francesca Kingdon (also billed as Frances Da Costa) is a British actress best known for modelling on K8TIE.com & playing Yasmin Salter in the ITV2 drama Footballers' Wives: Extra Time She also appeared in 8mm 2 and the London-based comedy film Filth and Wisdom, directed by Madonna.

Scott Henshall

At his post-eviction interview which was televised on 25 November 2006, Scott continued his on-going spat with Footballers' Wives star Phina Oruche.


A.F.C. Leopards

All Footballers' Confederation Leopards Sports Club, officially abbreviated as A.F.C. Leopards and commonly known as simply A.F.C., Leopards or Ingwe (Luhya for "Leopards"), is a professional football club based in Nairobi, Kenya and founded in 1964.

Alex Tobin

In 2008, the PFA Tobin Medal was inaugurated by the Australian Professional Footballers Association (PFA).

Alfred Bickel

Bickel holds the World Cup record for the longest period between matches played (12 years, 13 days), and is one of only two footballers ever to participate in World Cups before and after World War II, the other being Sweden's Erik Nilsson.

Bangladesh–Haiti relations

Sony Norde, Pascal Millien are some of the most popular Haitian footballers playing in Bangladesh.

Barking

Notable footballers from Barking include former England captains and defenders Bobby Moore and John Terry.

Bram Appel

Appel and Theo Timmermans took the initiative for a charity match for the victims of the North Sea flood of 1953, between France and Dutch footballers playing abroad.

Cayetano Ré

He was famous for being one of the first professional footballers to be open about having Asperger syndrome.

Charlene Thomas

Charlene is the cousin of professional footballers Mark and Jack Redshaw.

Cracovia White Eagles

In 1965, after a number of seasons in the lower divisions of the Western Australia State League, Cracovia with the assistance of the Polish Olympic Committee recruited a number of seasoned Polish footballers including Władysław Musiał, Paweł Sobek, Zygmunt Pieda and Henryk Lukoszek.

Curzon Ashton F.C.

Outside the stadium, a statue stands commemorating three locally born footballers associated with the World Cup; Geoff Hurst (born in Ashton), Jimmy Armfield (Denton), and Simone Perrotta (also born in Ashton).

Daniel Mitwali

In 2009, Daniel was chosen from a large pool of young footballers throughout Australia to take part in a reality television program Football Superstar to be aired on Foxtel.

ESPN Deportes

Regular hosts include Fernando Palomo, Richard Méndez, Manu Martin and the ex-footballers Tato Noriega and Mario Kempes.

FC Vujadin Boškov

Famous for its good football youth work, FK Vojvodina has developed renowned professional footballers such as Miloš Krasić, Gojko Kačar, Milan Stepanov, Srđan Bajčetić (retired), Dušan Tadić, Željko Brkić, Danijel Aleksić, Slobodan Medojević, Aleksandar Katai, Goran Šaula, former Barnsley player Jovo Bosančić, Damir Stojak among others.

Gareth Ainsworth

On 21 October 2010, he represented The Football League at the unveiling of the Footballers' Battalions memorial on the site of the Battle of the Somme.

George P. Anderson

In 1914, former St Kilda player, captain, and coach, James Smith, encouraged by the American boxing referee and manager of the major Melbourne boxing venue, Mr Angelo Marre, came up with the notion of taking two teams of Australian rules footballers (all in all, 45 men) to the Panama–California Exposition (scheduled to begin in San Diego, California in March 1915) to demonstrate Australian rules football.

Glenullin

Dermot McNicholl, one of the leading Gaelic footballers in the county in the 1980s and 1990s, also played Australian rules football and in the International Rules Series.

Golf Punk

Golf Punk magazine was launched by Tim Southwell and John Dean through their Keep Yourself Nice Ltd company in 2004, after securing investment from initially Premier League footballers Michael Gray, Thomas Sørensen, Phil Babb, Jason McAteer and Steven Wright, and then Genesis Investments (part of Chris Ingram's investment portfolio).

Harijs Fogelis

With RFK he played just one season after which he moved to the newly founded Riga Vanderer along several much more popular RFK footballers, such as Arvīds Jurgens, Voldemārs Plade and Česlavs Stančiks, and over two seasons the new club earned promotion to the Latvian Higher League.

Italian Footballers' Association

Among the charter members there were notable footballers, such as Giacomo Bulgarelli, Sandro Mazzola, Gianni Rivera, Ernesto Castano, Giancarlo De Sisti, Giacomo Losi and Sergio Campana.

Iva Landeka

Her brother Davor and her cousin Josip are also footballers, currently playing respectively for Grasshopper Zürich and Carl Zeiss Jena.

James Coppinger

In January 2013, along with several other people, including fellow footballers, Coppinger faced a race-fixing inquiry with allegations of corruption in gambling on horses to lose on Betting exchanges in nine races between 1 November 2010 and 31 March 2011.

Kacey Ainsworth

She starred in HolbyBlue as Inspector Jenny Black with Footballers' Wives star, Zöe Lucker for the BBC, appearing from the start of the first season to the eighth episode of the second season, where the character was written out to have a baby.

Kali Gwegwe

He is reputed to have groomed the bulk of all the new generation footballers (1998–2006) that come out of Bayelsa State—the home state of Finidi George and Samson Siasia.

Kolbotn

The team included Norwegian national footballers Solveig Gulbrandsen, Trine Rønning, Christine Colombo Nilsen and Isabell Herlovsen.

Kristiansund BK

Since Magnar Isaksen won a bronze medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics, many footballers from Kristiansund have played for the Norwegian national team including Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Øyvind Leonhardsen and Trond Andersen.

Loreto College, Coleraine

Barry McGoldrick and Sean Leo McGoldrick (brothers) - Current Derry Gaelic footballers

Lucidio Sentimenti

His nickname, Sentimenti IV, comes from the fact that he is the fourth of five brothers - Ennio (I), Arnaldo (II), Vittorio (III) and Primo (V) - all of whom but the eldest were also professional footballers.

Marseille turn

A number of famous footballers have been known to use it, including Nenad Marcetic, Zinedine Zidane, Alessandro Del Piero, Lionel Messi, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Kaká and Ronaldo.

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.

Ned Barkas

He came from a footballing family: his brother Sam played for and captained England, a cousin, Billy Felton, also played for England, and three other brothers Tommy, James and Harry were professional footballers.

Nespeky

Notable residents include the retired Czech footballers Antonín Panenka and Karel Nachtmann, among others.

Newbottle, Tyne and Wear

Famous people to have lived in the village have been footballers David Meyler Chris Turner, Thomas Sorensen and Colin Todd, plus singer Bryan Ferry.

Packy McGarty

He was included on the Gaelic Football team of the century, of the great GAA Footballers who never won an All-Ireland Medal.

Pelita Bandung Raya

In the mid 90s, Pelita Jaya FC recruited several legendary World Cup footballers such as Mario Kempes, Roger Milla, Jules Onana, and Maboang Kessack.

Pēteris Lauks

Pēteris Lauks (10 February 1902 in Riga - 15 March 1984 in Kitchener, Canada) was a Latvian football defender, one of the most capped footballers for Latvia national football team before World War II.

Roger Rogerson

He also became an entertainer, telling stories of his police activities in a spoken-word stage show called The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, with former Australian footballers Warwick Capper and Mark "Jacko" Jackson.

Shelley Webb

She married former England footballer Neil Webb, and the couple had two children Luke and Josh, who today are both young professional footballers.

Sterling Sharpe

Sharpe also appears in the video game NFL Street 2 as a member of the NFL Legends team depicting famous footballers of the 1970s and 1980s in their playing days.

Strathfoyle

Since becoming defunct, many of Enagh's roster joined St. Mary's Slaughtmanus and it has since become a popular choice of team for Gaelic footballers from the Strathfoyle area.

Stryn TIL

Other professional footballers from Stryn include Steinar Tenden and Mats Solheim.

Sunday Oliseh

His younger brothers, Azubuike and Egutu, are also professional footballers; another brother is Churchill Oliseh and his nephew is Sekou Oliseh.

Terje Nilsen

Nilsen is the uncle of former professional footballers Runar Berg, Ørjan Berg and Arild Berg.

Totteridge

Thus its past and present residents include the rich and famous, such as Arsène Wenger, Frankie Vaughan, Des O'Connor, Cliff Richard, Mickie Most, Hank Marvin, David Dein and many top footballers.

Uche Okafor

Other notable professional footballers who coach for ASG are Dave Dir, Zequinha, Óscar Pareja, and Bobby Rhine.

Wendy Hoyte

She is married to Les Hoyte, also a leading sprinter (brother of Trevor Hoyte, 1978 Commonwealth 200 m finalist), and is the mother of footballers Justin Hoyte, who plays for Millwall F.C and is an England U21 and Trinidad & Tobago international and Gavin Hoyte, who plays for league two side Dagenham and Redbridge F.C. and was an England U19 international.


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