football players with unaccountably lengthy wikipedia articles

love that sensational

Hedman, Hilario and Makalamby. Wow, you'd be as well with no keeper at all, tbh.

Rangers Football Club was a football club based in Glasgow, who played in the Scottish Premier League until the end of the 2011-12 season.

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Denis Irwin at Manchester United's training ground in 1992

Return to Liverpool

Aquilani returned to Liverpool for pre-season training in preparation for the 2012-13 season, and after having a chat with new manager Brendan Rodgers. Rodgers stated that Aquilani is a good asset to the Liverpool midfield and that he has no plans to release Aquilani, as the player fits his style of play perfectly.[citation needed] Aquilani's agent also came out and spoke of how a deal to Milan was now "impossible" and confirmed that Aquilani would remain at Liverpool the for the 2012-13 season. He was named in the 34 man squad for Liverpool's pre-season tour of North America, and flew out with the rest of the squad on 16 July 2012. He started and played 45 minutes in Liverpool's first pre-season friendly match against Toronto F.C. , and subsequently impressed, achieving a pass completion rate of 97% on the 21 July 2012.

He started and played 45 minutes in Liverpool's first pre-season friendly match against Toronto F.C. , and subsequently impressed, achieving a pass completion rate of 97% on the 21 July 2012.He started and played 45 minutes in Liverpool's first pre-season friendly match against Toronto F.C. , and subsequently impressed, achieving a pass completion rate of 97% on the 21 July 2012.He started and played 45 minutes in Liverpool's first pre-season friendly match against Toronto F.C. , and subsequently impressed, achieving a pass completion rate of 97% on the 21 July 2012.He started and played 45 minutes in Liverpool's first pre-season friendly match against Toronto F.C. , and subsequently impressed, achieving a pass completion rate of 97% on the 21 July 2012.He started and played 45 minutes in Liverpool's first pre-season friendly match against Toronto F.C. , and subsequently impressed, achieving a pass completion rate of 97% on the 21 July 2012.He started and played 45 minutes in Liverpool's first pre-season friendly match against Toronto F.C. , and subsequently impressed, achieving a pass completion rate of 97% on the 21 July 2012.

liverpool fans really are special

you're the one cataloguing it

2010–11 season

He was included in Liverpool's 21-man squad for the 2010–11 Premier League season. Spearing started and played the full 90 minutes in the opening leg of Liverpool's UEFA Europa League qualifier against Rabotnicki, and came on as a substitute at Anfield in the second leg. On the 16th of September, he again played the full 90 minutes in the Reds' opening group game against Steaua Bucaresti, his first ever start at Anfield, setting up David N'Gog for the fourth and final goal as Liverpool won 4-1. On 22 September, he was involved in Liverpool's shock League Cup third round exit to League Two side Northampton Town; Liverpool losing 4-2 on penalties after a 2-2 draw. On 21 October, he played the full 90 minutes in Liverpool's third group stage tie, a 0-0 draw with a Napoli side who have former Liverpool left-back Andrea Dossena. He was an unused substitute in Liverpool's 1-0 Premier League win against Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok Stadium on 31 October. Spearing came on in the 90th minute of Liverpool's 2-0 victory over Chelsea on 7 November 2010, instantly making an impact by playing a through ball to assist a Maxi Rodriguez effort. On 20 November, it was reported that Spearing had broken his ankle in training and would be out for up to six weeks. Spearing made his first appearance of 2011 against Everton on 16 January. In the post-match interview, Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish praised the young midfielder and joked that Steven Gerrard may never get into the first team again.[6] On 20 March, Spearing started another league game away to Sunderland. Spearing won a penalty, which was converted by Dirk Kuyt to put Liverpool 1-0 up and was generally praised for his great performance.

Spearing then went on the secure a first team berth with the absence of Steven Gerrard and out of favour Christian Poulsen. For the remnants of the Premier League season, he formed an excellent midfield partnership with the resurgent Lucas Leiva. Against Arsenal on the 17th of April, Spearing gave away a 98th minute penalty which Robin Van Persie scored to make the game 1-0. The match finished 1-1. Despite his involvement in the Arsenal goal, Spearing was praised after the game for his determination, work-rate and battling performance; traits that epitomised his successful run in the starting eleven. He received the journalists' MOTM award on the official Liverpool website 3 times during the season.

In May 2011 the club announced that he had extended his contract,[7] and as a result of wide critical acclaim for his sterling performances for Liverpool, Spearing was included in England U21's provisional 40-man-squad for the 2011 Summer U21 European Championship, with fellow Liverpool player Andy Carroll.[8]

Real Madrid

In 2001, Zidane joined Real Madrid for a then world record fee of 150 billion Italian lire.[24] (about €75 million[25]) and signed a four-year contract. He scored a famous match-winning goal, a volley hit with his weaker foot, in Madrid's 2–1 win over Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final completing his personal quadruple. The next season, Zidane helped Real Madrid to win the 2002–03 La Liga and was named the FIFA World Player of the Year for the third time. In 2004, fans voted him as the best European footballer of the previous 50 years in UEFA's fiftieth-anniversary Golden Jubilee Poll.

While Zidane's final season of club football ended without a trophy, he enjoyed success on a personal note by scoring his first hat-trick against Sevilla FC in a 4–2 win in January 2006.[26] He ended the season for Real Madrid as their second highest goalscorer and assists provider behind team-mates Ronaldo and Beckham respectively, with 9 goals and 10 assists in 28 games.[27] On 7 May 2006, Zidane, who had announced his plans to retire after the 2006 World Cup,[28] played his last home match and scored in a 3–3 draw with Villarreal. The squad wore commemorative shirts with ZIDANE 2001–2006 below the club logo. He left Real Madrid at the end of the season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevhen_Khacheridi

Khacheridi's father is ethnically Greek, and his mother is Ukrainian. [5] Khacheridi is currently a student at the Melitopol National Pedagogical Institute, where he is studying to be a physical education teacher. He only needs one more course to graduate.[5]

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Energie Shokk Gym Franchisee

Mellon opened the very first franchised energie Shokk gym aimed at teenagers with his wife Jane in Blackpool in February 2009.[11][12]
The gym later went out of business in October 2009.[13]

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Aston Villa have a large fanbase and draw support from all over the Midlands and beyond, with supporters clubs all across the world. Former Villa chief executive Richard Fitzgerald has stated that the ethnicity of the supporters is currently 98% white.

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Description
English: Papa Gueye. Naïve art graffiti. Kharkov. Gagarin Prospekt
Русский: Сенегалец Папа Гуйе, футболист ФК "Металлист". Граффити на пр. Гагарина, Харьков. (Справа внизу выход из стены пожарной магистрали).
Français : Graffiti naïf représentant Papa Gueye, footballeur sénégalais du "F.C. Metallist" de Kharkov. Mur de la perspective Gagarine à Kharkov, Ukraine.
Date 22 July 2010
Source Own work
Author V.Vizu

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Dog

Keane had a Labrador Retriever named Triggs, who died in 2010. Triggs came to international attention in 2002 during an incident ahead of the that year's FIFA World Cup when Keane engaged in a public quarrel and left the squad. Triggs accompanied Keane on regular walks pursued by the press.[94] The footballer said of Triggs, "Unlike humans, dogs don't talk shit".[95] The Daily Telegraph's Steve Wilson once described Triggs as "the most famous dog in football since Pickles, a mongrel who dug up the stolen Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966, or that dog that relieved itself on Jimmy Greaves at the 1962 World Cup".[96] Henry Winter, writing in the same paper, called Triggs "the fittest dog in Cheshire" and opined that "if Cruft's [sic] held an endurance event, Keane and Triggs would scoop gold".[97]

Following his rise to fame Triggs was mentioned by several sources on many occasions, with Keane dogged by numerous canine references for the remainder of his career.[98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105] In 2006, when Keane moved house to Sunderland, his reunion with Triggs, who joined him later, came to the notice of the press.[106] In 2007, Keane was reported to have heard of his team's promotion to the Premiership while walking Triggs.[107] The following year, Keane was said to have acquired a German Shepherd Dog named Izac to accompany Triggs.[108][109][110] Russell Brand observed the frequency with which Keane has been associated with his dogs, particularly when involved in the news – with quotes including "Keane will certainly have more time to walk his dogs", "The only real winners are Roy Keane's dogs", and "Roy Keane's dogs refused to comment on the situation" – before he googled "Roy Keane's dogs" only to discover it had more hits than "something with a lot of hits".[111]

In later life, Triggs was involved in a police investigation when his behaviour caused an argument between Keane and a neighbour.[112] He appeared in an Irish Guide Dogs advertisement in 2009 - whereupon the Irish Examiner referred to him as "football's biggest canine celebrity" -[113] and also received his own profile on Facebook.[112] Triggs was described as a "celebrity" and a "household name" upon erroneous reports of her death from cancer in September 2010.[94][112] Keane was described as "inconsolable".[112] The Irish Examiner's obituary noted how "At critical moments when the nation's happiness seemed entwined with Roy's moods, he turned to his Labrador Triggs and took to the road".[114]

Dog

mourinho wiki-keeper is letting the side down.

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this image speaks to me

ya he needs a dog

i want to give his solo record ****

feeling that

reminds me a bit of myself in 1992 w/ the hands up sweatshirt sleeves and bashful expression, although i was 7 years old so

yeah that Irwin picture has haunted me since the first time you posted it

McAnuff has one cap for Jamaica, he made his debut on 18 May 2002 in the 'Unity Cup', an exhibition game against Nigeria at Loftus Road. He came on as a substitute in the 55th minute replacing Omar Daley. [12]

He retired from international football in 2005, aged 23.[13]

Scotti is an offensive player despite of his position, has a very good air game, cold temper and high concentration when defending, a great physical condition, and a good defensive quality in the challenges with other players among his virtues of footballer.

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Español: Pintura del futbolista ecuatoriano Luis Antonio Valencia
Date 4 September 2012, 18:17:02
Source Own work
Author Damianstalin

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Martin, hands on hips, after conceding in a 1–1 draw with Bury at Vale Park.

Nastasić showed many of his qualities - quality tackling, comfortability on the ball, tactical astuteness.

nice to see iain dowie keeping himself busy

Came is an indifferent golfer who once spent five minutes looking for his seven iron after it flew into the rough following his drive.

Nacer Chadli (born 2 August 1989) is a Belgian professional footballer of Moroccan ancestry who plays as a winger for Dutch club FC Twente. He will not be moving to everton for around 3.8 million pounds in january. Think you'll find he will be moving to Everton for about £5m.[1] If Kenwright can find it down the back of the sofa.
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Currently, Dedé is considered the best centre backs in activity in Brazil and one of the greats new players in Brazilian football, with great acclaim from critics and fans. With great performances and the big identification with the Vasco da Gama's fans, Dedé won the fans several nicknames: "O Mito" ("The Myth"), "Dedéckenbauer" and even "Dedélícia" ("Dedélicious", by female fans). Dedé has become one of the great idols of the Vasco da Gama in the 21st Century, turning up the campaign poster boy "Marco1924" (promotional clock that celebrates the victory of Vasco da Gama against racism in football), along with Fernando Prass.[1][2][3][4] On July 11, was elected by SBT and a popular vote as one of the 100 greatest Brazilians of all time.[5]

"Messi" redirects here. For Cameroonian football midfielder, see Georges Parfait Mbida Messi.

After leaving Canon, he played in Belgium with K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen, but appeared very rarely for the Pro League outfit. After a few months in Qatar, Messi moved to another country, Portugal, signing for second division club S.C. Olhanense and appearing in an average of 12 games in his first two seasons.

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Jürgen Norbert "Kloppo" Klopp[1]

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favorite thread

His first goal for Cagliari was an example of things to come. On the trip to Catania on December 4, 2011, Victor received the ball on the byline near the edge of the penalty box, and uses his strength and power to cut inside past two defenders before dribbling the ball around the goalkeeper into an empty net. Victor is a god on fifa 13.

His nickname is "Buck Rodgers", after the Buck Rogers character with a similar name.[11][50][51]

Records
Club records

The Scottish Cup final win against Aberdeen in 1937 was attended by a crowd of 147,365 at Hampden Park in Glasgow, which remains a world record gate for a ....
First weekly club publication in the UK, The Celtic View
First European club to sign a player from the Indian sub-continent[135]

Former Celtic legend Bertie Auld described him as being the kind of player who 'puts bums in seats' and then has the technical ability to "lift bums off the seats once the game starts".[33]

his current key ability is putting his own bum on the treatment table

Sport Club Internacional

On 20 July 2011, following a disappointing spell at Manchester City, only scoring six goals in 41 appearances, Jô decided to return to Brazil and join Sport Club Internacional to try to revive his career.
Atlético Mineiro

In May 2012, Jô signed with fellow Brazilian side Atlético Mineiro.
Bobbins FC

In January 2013 Jo moved to his beloved Bobbins FC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Howarth
bit much for someone who only played 31 league games

outstanding

no less than 118 references went into that

still 80 short of sigmund freud but in terms of refs/years lived hes well in front

but less than Jung, Laing and Klein combined. Suck it, chumps.

Harris finally opened his goal-scoring account for Forest on 2 September 2006, after 21 months of waiting in a 4–0 victory against Chesterfield.[5] It was a cutely struck volley from a few yards out. He and his team mates' joy was clear to see in his celebration, as he ran towards the corner of the stadium and did not look as though he would stop, until his team mates caught up. In the post match report, he admitted he was finally enjoying life at Nottingham Forest.

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Muriel stated that his comparison to Brazilian legend Ronaldo by his playing style, is likely because he was a main supporter of Ronaldo during his time in Inter Milan.[24] Muriel went on to say that he supported Inter Milan because Ronaldo was playing for them at the time.[25] Coincidentally, Muriel also stated that he also suffers weight issues (like Ronaldo during his time) and had to lose five kilos at one point.[26][27] This meant that he had to be consistent with fitness, which explained his similar style to the Brazilian legend and high quality in terms of athletic stature.[24][28][29]

Dzyuba is well known for his cheerful and genial disposition, and he is always willing to talk to journalists. As he once told, "if laughter prolongs one's life, I am immortal".[7]

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Carlos Campos was a player for the Universidad de Chile. Campos went by the nickname "The Tank" for his lack of sensation when scoring. He was best known for heading the ball, and famous for keeping his cool when going one-on-one against the goalkeeper.

Shortly after leaving Marseille, Berizzo spoke out against alleged homosexuality in France:

"A bunch of faggots is what you have in French football. There are so many homosexual players there, they always provoke you, they touch your thighs, your bum, to see if you will give some kind of signal. I feel disgusted when a homosexual shares the same shower and stares at one's bum with desire, and even gets emotional when you are naked."

— Berizzo quoted in a Daily Telegraph Article.[9]

stares at one's bum with desire

Surprisingly there is a group of Maniacs in Argentinian city call Mar del Plata. Their leader Marcelo Torre is passionate fan of Boca Juniors, he met girl from Sarajevo who is Željo fan and after he visit her and meet Željo fans his love to club started. Torre has several times visited Grbavica Stadium and when he went home for first time he bring with him seven FK Željezničar jerseys for his friends.

Currently Maniacs Mar del Plata have eight members. The group is divided in fans of Boca Juniors and River Plate but the love for FK Željezničar is the one that connects them.[4]

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On 3 March 2010 he made his debut for Australia in a 1–0 win over Indonesia in the final 2011 Asian Cup Qualifier.[19][20][21] His performance in this match led to fallacious comparisons to Harry Kewell and the potential for Oar to succeed the Australian great.[22][23][24][25]

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Bartley playing for Rangers in 2011

In May 2013, Alonso signed for Italian side ACF Fiorentina on a three-year deal, despite being offered a new contract by Bolton manager Dougie Freedman.[11] On 30 December, after the player had made nine official appearances, Sunderland boss Gus Poyet announced that he would join on 1 January 2014, on loan until the end of the campaign.[12] During his time at Fiorentina, it became clear that Alonso was a murderer and should be locked up. How many more ref.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Alonso_Mendoza

football players with accountably lengthy wiki info boxes due to intense club hopping

Robert de Pinho de Souza.

Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Coritiba 34 (11)
2000–2001 Botafogo-SP 7 (7)
2001–2002 Servette 19 (8)
2002 São Caetano 12 (3)
2003 Kawasaki Frontale 16 (6)
2003–2004 Spartak Moscow 12 (3)
2004–2005 Atlas 44 (33)
2005–2006 PSV 15 (7)
2006–2007 → Betis (loan) 48 (16)
2007 Betis 33 (5)
2007 Al-Ittihad Jeddah 19 (9)
2008–2010 Monterrey 16 (12)
2008 → Tecos (loan) 19 (5)
2009 → América (loan) 17 (4)
2009–2010 → Palmeiras (loan) 35 (19)
2010 → Cruzeiro (loan) 14 (3)
2011 → Bahia (loan) 12 (4)
2011 → Puebla (loan) 3 (4)
2012 Jeju United 13 (3)
2012 Ceará 16 (5)
2013 Necaxa 12 (11)
2013 Boa Esporte 3 (2)
2013–2014 Fortaleza 22 (10)
2015 Sampaio Corrêa 8 (6)
2015 Vitória 11 (2)
2016 Paraná 10 (3)
2016 Gżira United 6 (7)
2017 Oeste 26 (6)
2018 Audax 13 (2)
2018 Santa Cruz 6 (1)
2018– Portuguesa 3 (9)

uhhhh, let's try that again

Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2000	Coritiba	34	(11)
2000–2001	Botafogo-SP	7	(7)
2001–2002	Servette	19	(8)
2002	São Caetano	12	(3)
2003	Kawasaki Frontale	16	(6)
2003–2004	Spartak Moscow	12	(3)
2004–2005	Atlas	44	(33)
2005–2006	PSV	15	(7)
2006–2007	→ Betis (loan)	48	(16)
2007	Betis	33	(5)
2007	Al-Ittihad Jeddah	19	(9)
2008–2010	Monterrey	16	(12)
2008	→ Tecos (loan)	19	(5)
2009	→ América (loan)	17	(4)
2009–2010	→ Palmeiras (loan)	35	(19)
2010	→ Cruzeiro (loan)	14	(3)
2011	→ Bahia (loan)	12	(4)
2011	→ Puebla (loan)	3	(4)
2012	Jeju United	13	(3)
2012	Ceará	16	(5)
2013	Necaxa	12	(11)
2013	Boa Esporte	3	(2)
2013–2014	Fortaleza	22	(10)
2015	Sampaio Corrêa	8	(6)
2015	Vitória	11	(2)
2016	Paraná	10	(3)
2016	Gżira United	6	(7)
2017	Oeste	26	(6)
2018	Audax	13	(2)
2018	Santa Cruz	6	(1)
2018–	Portuguesa	3	(9)

Scored at every club he played at, too.