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In November 1975 he flew out to Saudi Arabia for a trial at top-flight Al-Hilal, as manager George Smith, the man who had signed him at Stalybridge, offered him the chance to earn a tax-free contract in the oil-rich nation.[10] He impressed on the trial and was offered a contract, this made him the first European to play professionally in Saudi Arabia.[11] Club president Prince Abdullah bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud bought O'Keefe a Pontiac Ventura,[12] before taking the young player on a luxurious tour of Europe, visiting five star hotels in London, Paris, Cannes, and Rome, before returning to Riyadh for the start of the new Saudi season of football.[12] However on the trip he asked an O'Keefe to give up his football career to become his lover, and was refused.[13]

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For the Welsh footballer see Jonathan Meades (footballer).

Holdsworth was involved in tabloid scandal in 1996 when he had a highly publicised extramarital affair with topless model Linsey Dawn McKenzie, who was then aged 17.[63] In December 1999 he was sentenced to 18 months probation for punching his wife Samantha Holdsworth.[64]

Holdsworth appeared in reality television series Deadline where ten celebrities had to produce their own weekly celebrity magazine. He was the sixth celebrity to be sacked by Janet Street-Porter. He also participated in the second series of Sky1 reality TV series Cirque de Celebrité. He was voted out by the judges in the first episode on 7 October 2007. Tamara (another contestant) joined him in the bottom two, but was voted to stay in the competition by the three judges. However, because of a technical fault with the voting, Dean was asked to re-join the show.

Holdsworth remarried Susanna Cobham and they live in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire. Holdsworth is also father to sons Bradly and Jordan.

Despite claiming to be "not into fishing",[45] Gylfi became the chairman of a fishing company in Flateyri called 'Lotna ehf' in 2011.[46]

In July 2010, Flamengo announced the club had suspended Bruno's contract as a result of the murder investigation and the club lawyer would no longer act in his defense.[12] In September 2010 according to news report Bruno have tried to commit suicide twice while in prison waiting for his trial to begin.[13]

His grandmother is Welsh, and was born in Wrexham.

Expectations were high before the 1969 season, but days before the opening of the season, Døssing decided to leave AaB. He moved back to birthtown Viborg to run his own gents’ outfitters business, a decision he never regretted.

Alan Kardec de Souza Pereira Junior, usually known as Alan Kardec (born January 12, 1989[2] in Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil[3]), is a Brazilian football striker currently playing for Benfica of the Portuguese Liga. He is named after the systematizer of Spiritism, Allan Kardec.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Aitken_%28footballer_born_1978%29

In the summer, Goater was awarded the freedom of Bermuda, with 21 June declared as "Shaun Goater Day" on the island.

The club FC Winterslag was founded in 1923 and that gave it the matricule number 322. On its 35th anniversary the club added the Royal prefix Koninklijke to their name to become KFC Winterslag.

Leon Brittan
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Leon Britton
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Category:Footballers' wives and girlfriends
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The main article for this category is WAGs.

This is a category for WAGs. WAG stands for Wives And Girlfriends, and is a term typically associated with English football but has, since the term's first use in 2004, been extended to include some other sports and nationalities. If a WAG separates from her partner, she is still referred to as a WAG, and hence should remain in this category. Only those for whom the term is defining should be added here.

She pursued her childhood dream by representing Anambra in the pageant with 29 other girls.[4] Like Ann Suinner before her, Yobo's platform was Sickle Cell Awareness; she also used her reign as a platform to showcase Nigerian talent. Apart from winning five million naira, a Hyundai car, and endorsement deals, Awka-Etiti-native Yobo represented Nigeria at Miss World 2008 in South Africa.[5] She made the top twenty in Miss World Talent, and placed second in Miss World Sports.

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

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Sponsorship

In August 2012, Reus extended his contract with Puma[27] to wear their performance and lifestyle footwear and apparel on a long-term basis. Reus became an international communication asset for their power silo, as a supporting player to Cesc Fàbregas for Puma Power football products.

José Quitongo, the journeyman's journeyman

Years		Team			Apps†	(Gls)†
1992–1994	Benfica			?	(?)
1992–1993	Estoril (loan)		?	(?)
1994–1995	Waterford United	?	(?)
1995		Köping			20	(1)
1995		Darlington		1	(0)
1995–1997	Hamilton Academical	62	(9)
1997–1999	Heart of Midlothian	30	(3)
2000		Hamilton Academical	15	(1)
2000–2002	St. Mirren		57	(7)
2002–2003	Kilmarnock		8	(0)
2003		Dibba Al-Hisn		?	(?)
2003–2004	Hamilton Academical	18	(5)
2004		Waterford United	17	(1)
2005–2006	Alloa Athletic		35	(5)
2006		Albion Rovers		1	(0)
2006		Partick Thistle		1	(0)
2006		Dumbarton		2	(1)
2006–2007	Pro Lissone		?	(?)
2007		Livingston		2	(0)
2007–2008	Stenhousemuir		10	(0)
2009–2010	Glenafton Athletic	?	(?)
2010		Pollok			?	(?)
2011		Lesmahagow		?	(?)

ailsa (ailsa) wrote this on thread Football: Who's your cult hero? on board I Love Everything on 11-May-2006

Jose Quitongo once had to go off the pitch during a match because he had to go and have a shite and it took him ages and everyone had to wait until he came back out before they could carry on with the match. His next match saw the opposition fans throwing toilet rolls at him.

Ha, I saw his name and that was the story that immediately sprang to mind even before I scrolled down and saw you'd quoted it :) I can't find any evidence on the internet to back this up, maybe I invented it? I'm convinced it was a St Mirren v Hearts game at Love Street.

yup! http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/hendrie-shocked-as-jose-takes-a-break-1.221717

Ah, I knew St Mirren were involved, but I thought it was when he was playing at Hearts. Top googling!

Contrary to popular belief, Roy has not been awarded a CBE - or indeed, any other British Empire medal - as of 18 April 2012.

evans

After signing for Queen of the South F.C. in December 2009 and being told about Queen of the South being the 'Only team in the Bible', Andrews described this as, "Most interesting".

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

Seven years at Barca, ten years in the arse end of Spanish football, drops a level to the SPL, gets four games, a red card and an injury, goes back to the arse end of Spanish football for consecutive relegations.

It's a living, of a sort.

International career

Following his impressive performances when at Palermo, Amauri was suggested to be a potential call-up of the then Azzurri coach Roberto Donadoni, who stated he might be interested in calling him to the Italian squad.[33] Amauri, who has not appeared at international level for the Brazilian team, would have been indeed eligible in the future to play for the Italian national team[34] because he was eligible to acquire Italian nationality by marriage to a Brazilian-Italian woman; however, according to Italian law Amauri was forced to wait for at least one year from the day of the proclamation of his wife as an Italian citizen, which did not happen before April 2009.

On 31 January 2009, Brazilian coach Dunga selected Amauri, who was still ineligible to play for Italy at the time, as a replacement for the injured Luís Fabiano in an international friendly against Italy.[35] However, a few hours later, in the aftermath of a Juventus league game on the same day, Juventus chairman Giovanni Cobolli Gigli stated the club's intention not to allow the player to respond to the call-up.[36]

On November 2009, Amauri himself confirmed his decision to play for Italy instead of Brazil, following remarks by Italian striker Giampaolo Pazzini who was critical about the possibility of having a non-Italian born player within the azzurri squad.[37]

After receiving Italian citizenship in April 2010, Amauri finally became eligible to play for the Azzurri. Italy was scheduled to play two World Cup warm-up friendlies in June,[38] who would feature players from a 30-men preliminary squad to be announced on 11 May,[39] thus making Amauri unable to be featured in any of such friendly games without receiving a call-up to join such preliminary squad.[40] Marcello Lippi, the Italy coach, said Amauri would be followed like all the other players and no certainly inclusion. Which Lippi did not ruled out a call-up to the foreign born player completely.[41]

He [Amauri] will be followed like all the other players. I am taking this month to evaluate and take decisions that have to be made exclusively for the good of the national team.

–Marcello Lippi 13 April 2010
[42][43]

Lippi later expressed that he had confirmed 18 out of 23 players in his squad to the World Cup,[44] and excluded Amauri from the 29-men squad of the training camp in Rome on 3–5 May.[45] Amauri said he expected his exclusion as there were better players than him that season.[46]

On 6 August 2010 Amauri received his first call-up for the Italian national team, as part of the squad list announced by new head coach Cesare Prandelli for a friendly match against Côte d'Ivoire, the first match after World Cup.[47] He started the match in alongside debutant Mario Balotelli and Antonio Cassano who missed the team for 2 years in a new-look line-up but the Ivorians won 1-0 at Upton Park, London.

Amauri
Team Apps† (Gls)†
Italy 1 (0)

Edinson is known for his keen love of darts, cribbage and comic books; an interest he attributes to time spent in Sardinia with long time friend and ex-footballer Gianfranco Zola, a Sardinian native.

In March 2002, FA Premier League side Aston Villa made a successful £5 million bid for Crouch.[11] He scored on his home debut for Villa, the equalising goal against Newcastle United, and went on to score twice in seven games.[12] However, Crouch failed to hold down a regular place in the Aston Villa side in the following 2002–03 season. Looking for first team football, he was loaned to Norwich City from September to December 2003. Although he scored only four times in 15 appearances, he was highly impressive and remains popular with Norwich City supporters. So popular, in fact, he had a song made up about him ("He's tall, he's lean, he's a freaky goal machine").[13]

Agbonlahor's brother, Charisma, plays as a striker for Evostik Northern Premier League side Romulus FC.[59][60]

Di Canio has spoken also of the growing influence in his life of Samurai culture, and of the "Japanese spiritual mentality" from reading Mishima, and the teachings in the traditions of Hagakure and Bushido.[1]

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that wouldn't be the neo-Fascist author Yukio Mishima by any chance?

Carsley began his career at Derby County where he played more than 150 games in all competitions.[3] He was sold to Blackburn Rovers in March 1999 for £4.5 million,[4]

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Hinchcliffe stated in an end of season Everton VHS that he was encouraged to take up a football career from his father who was a season ticket holder at Crewe Alexandra F.C.. He received his first football shirt on his 6th Birthday. It was a Nigeria shirt with Tolu and the number 4 on the back.

Kick and Rush

Der Begriff Kick and Rush (englisch, etwa „schießen und stürmen“) stammt aus dem Fußball.

Diese Spielart war lange Zeit ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Fußballs auf den Britischen Inseln.

According to the reports, a journalist interviewed with Alper in National Team Camp and He talked about his transfer rumor. He promised to Fenerbahçe for transfer. "Before the negotiate contract Fenerbahçe's Boss Aziz Yildirim called me and they wanted to see me at Fenerbahçe. Also they will transfer great names and Fenerbahce's squad will be more greater" said Alper. In addition to his conversation he said he is a fan of Fenerbahçe and if Fenerbahce's managers will deal with Eskişehirspor, he will sign to Fenerbahçe. Then transfer completed after that. I promised only Fenerbahce. So I dealt with Fenerbahçe 15 days ago." [3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Association_football_players_who_committed_suicide

Whoa, some grim reading in there. (also now annoying myself by trying to remember if I knew about Forbes Johnston committing suicide, he's one of those players who might have one day turned up in "footballers whose names float around your head" but I don't think I knew he was dead, or if I did, I had forgotten)

Martin Barbarič (14 October 1970 – 18 January 2013) was a Czech football player who is best known as key striker at club Slovan Liberec in the late 1990s. He was also a U-11 coach at FC Hradec Králové.

On 11 January 2013 Barbarič shot and killed his ex-wife in Hradec Králové. He then shot himself and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.[1] He died a week later.[2]

Koskiniatis then jumped off the cliff and committed suicide.[2] Diagoras lost the game 3:2.

Although comparatively rich for an ex-player working in football, King's reputation as well as his career were in tatters. Within a month of the sacking he committed suicide by drinking alcohol mixed with a corrosive liquid.

The inquest into his death declared that he had taken his life 'while of unsound mind', and had been suffering from persecution delusions. According to his son at the inquest, his depression had begun when the team were relegated in the summer of 1932, and that his paranoia had followed on from that.

Friedhelm "Timo" Konietzka (2 August 1938 – 12 March 2012) was a German football striker[1] and manager. He earned his nickname "Timo" due to a supposed resemblance to the Soviet commander Semyon Timoshenko.[2]

He took Swiss citizenship in 1988. With help of euthanasia-organisation Exit International, he chose to end his life at the age of 73 in Brunnen, Canton of Schwyz.[4]

Later in his career he returned to Bolivia where he played for The Strongest and Club Bolívar.

Castillo's nickname was "Chocolatín" by the colour of his skin.

Given a free transfer to Telford United in May 1977, he went on to commit suicide in July 1978, having never come to terms with leaving Port Vale.

Good work with all the suicide stuff.

An England youth product, Cattermole has earned a reputation as a tough tackling midfielder due to his lengthy disciplinary record.

Obodo is regarded by many as one of the most skilful and talented midfielders to play for the Super Eagles since the 1994 era. Little wonder, a sports radio personality and media mogul – noted for nicknaming Nigerian footballers – describes him as bundle of skills, a phrase which later stuck and is now synonymous with Obodo's skilfulness.

Paços has a curious habit of playing Galician side Celta de Vigo every pre-season.