Some of the Brazilian footballers' names mentioned in the article. Lynneeker Lineker Augusto Raikard, Rudigullithi https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/ge...TnHrizkuGDegLiI4xkwWnj8JyBaTRg33WSAl4C7c39t8A
I always found Daniel Killer of Argentina 1978 team got the best fitting name for a footballer. Killer sounded liked a defender(Terry Butcher too). I always wonder about the origin of the surname. According to the site below, Switzerland and Germany have the most "Killers" in the world. https://forebears.io/surnames/killer
And then, there is the strange case of Russo "Adolpho Milman". He played once for Brazil in 1942. However, his birthplace had been a question mark. He was a naturalised Brazil of Ukrainian Jewish background via Argentina. He was born in 1915. Some source claimed that he was born in Afghanistan, which was then a part of Russia. He later settled down in Entre Ríos, Argentina. He refused to discuss his birthplace, but his children said that he was born in Argentina. One blog said that he moved to Brazil as a one year old. As of 2020, he was one of five foreign born footballers to have represent Brazil. It is very interesting that he was born in Afghanistan or Argentina. Portuguese-born Casemiro do Amaral played 6 times for Brazil between 1916 and 1917. Sidney Pullen born in England played around the same time for Brazil. Italian-born Francisco Police played for Brazil in 1918. Then, Russo "Adolpho Milman" played once for Brazil in 1942. Finally, Andreas Pereira was capped by Brazil in 2018.
Scoring directly from a corner kick is already a rare feat, a player managing this four times in his career is a great special feat. But imagine a player who scored all these four direct corner kick goals in the same stadium and once from every of the four corners in that stadium. That was done by Frankfurt legend Bernd "Doktor Hammer" Nickel. He scored his first direct corner kick goal on 22 November 1975 (the sixth goal in a 6-0 vs. Bayern), his second on 19 April 1980 (the first goal in a 3-5 vs. Kaiserslautern), his third on 14 November 1981 (the 4-1 in a 9-2 rout against Werder Bremen) and his fourth on 15 May 1982 (the fourth goal in a 4-0 vs. Düsseldorf).
Enrique Guaita is often listed as born in Argentina. Some source claimed that he was born in Brazil, making him the first Brazilian-born player to have won the World Cup. In fact, I might posted about this over here. He was one of the first Argentine-born to have won the World Cup in 1934 while playing for Italy alongside Luis Monti and Raimundo Orsi. He was an Italian oriundo footballers.
Guillermo Diaz Carmona (b.1926) and Guillermo Diaz Zambrano (b.1930) were chileans Outside Left in the 1950s. It's funny, both shared the same name and the same role in the same country, in the same era . Only in 1 match both coincide (vs Uruguay in 1955), but one of them replacing the other. I imagine the announcer yelling: "Chilean winger Guillermo Diaz left the field, to replace him, the winger Guillermo Diaz enters the field"
I'm probably in the minority but the 'useless' fact that stuck out most for me in this post was there being substitutions allowed in 1955 (!) I always thought substitutes weren't allowed until the mid-late 60s.
Wrote about that match not do long ago. Incredible stuff! https://thesefootballtimes.co/2019/...y-way-to-win-an-international-football-match/
The Light Seeds' song "Three Lions". It is an offlical song for England at Euro 1996. It had another version for 1998. The video to the 1998 version of the song portrays a match between a group of English fans (including Baddiel, Skinner and Lightning Seeds' singer Ian Broudie) and their German equivalents, most of whom have the name "Kuntz" printed on the back of their football shirts (except for one, who instead has "Klinsmann"). German player Stefan Kuntz had played an instrumental part in Germany's semi-final victory over England at Wembley in 1996, but his name is similar to the disparaging vulgarity "cunts"; the segment was often cut by broadcasters. 03:00
I never heard of Carlos Volente until a few minutes ago. He was an Argentine player who played in Italy during the early 1930's. In 1934, he fled to France because Mussolini was recruiting him to the army. In France, he played with Rennes, Olympique and Paris Football Club. In mid-1938, with the war on his heels, Volante thought only of escaping from Europe before it was too late. During the 1938 World Cup, he introduced himself to the Brazilian national. He joined as a masseur and escaped back to South America. Then, he played with Flamengo apparently well enough where the defensive midfield position in Brazil was named "volente" after him.
https://museumofjerseys.com/2020/05/26/when-celtics-numbers-were-up/ I diod not know that Celtic did not wear number on their back until the 1990's.
Clive Allen played for QPR, Crystal Palace, Spurs, Chelsea, West Ham and Millwall. That's six clubs from London. He also spent a brief time with Arsenal, where he did not play a single game, except during a tour. That's 7 clubs from London. In 1997, he played for the London Monarchs in NFL Europe. That would be his 8th "football" team in London.
Catalonia provided seven footballers for the World Cup winning team of Spain in 2010 and the Catalans of that World Cup Finals were well-documented and given plenty of recognition and credits. Paris (or Île-de-France) actually had 8 players on the 2018 World Cup winning team than them. Eight other Paris-born players also went to the World Cup playing for Portugal, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia respectively. Ibrahima Konaté, Kingsley Coman, Tanguy Ndombele and Raphaël Guerreiro were also born in the area. Parisian area supposingly has the highest concentration of footballers from the Big Five European League born there. As historical perspective, I tried to be an All-Time Île-de-France. The region only had a few old timers. So far, i could come out with Robert Jonquet and Thierry Henry as the only players of note. I also had Jonathan Zebina In fact, I abandoned the all-time Parisian project to do a Parisian National team at the 2018 World Cup. https://soccerfootballwhatever.blogspot.com/2021/02/paris-nation-team-in-wc-2018.html
I'm guessing it's because five of those players started all seven matches in South Africa. Sergio Busquets Joan Capdevila Xavi Hernández Gerard Piqué Carles Puyol Pedro Rodríguez played in five matches, three as a sub and starting in two including the finsl. Cesc Fàbregas played in four matches, all as sub. He also provided the assist in the final. An eighth Catalan player, Victor Valdes, was in the squad but never saw any action. Only N'Golo Kanté started all seven matches in Russia. Kylian Mbappé also played in all seven matches but started in six. He was subbed on in the other. Paul Pogba played in six, all as a starter. Steven Nzonzi played in five, only started in one. Presnel Kimpembe (starting) and Benjamin Mendy (as sub) each only played in one match. And like Victor Valdes, Alphonse Areola was third choice goalkeeper who did not see any action. I'm missing the eighth player.