Topic: "Guess the footballer"

[Gerry Attrick]

4 is Vermaelen

5 must be Mandzukic

Indeed.

[rafathegaffa83]

I was going to add two other clues to this, but it might have made a tricky one, somewhat easier given this player is one of the few players to have achieved one feat for his national team, while one of his clubs were one of the few to do something else.

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My former managers included a World Cup Winner, a European Championship Winner, a European Cup Winner, two European Cup Winners Cup Winners and a Coppa Italia Winner. I won one major trophy in my career.

My former teammates include:

Barry Venison
Karl-Heinz Riedle
Emile Heskey
Djimi Traore
Dwight Yorke
Andy Cole
Nicky Butt
Peter Beardsley
Stan Collymore
Joe Hart
Ben Foster
Edwin van der Sar
Alex Hleb
Johan Djourou
Nicklas Bendtner

[Crosby Nick]

Is 2 the mighty Christian Poulsen?

[rafathegaffa83]

Is 2 the mighty Christian Poulsen?

Looks like it

[Gerry Attrick]

Is 2 the mighty Christian Poulsen?

The man, the myth, the legend.

[Crosby Nick]

A few more Honours ones. Club honours only otherwise some might get too easy:

1)
Coupe de France: 1989–90[citation needed]
Division 1: 1995–96[citation needed]
Coupe de France: 1995–96[citation needed]

Copa del Rey: 1996–97[citation needed]
Supercopa de Espańa: 1996[citation needed]
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1996–97[citation needed]

Premier League: 2002–03[45]

2)
Bundesliga: 1993–94, 1996–97[34]
UEFA Cup: 1995–96[34]

Serie A: 1998–99[34]

Football League Cup: 2000–01[34]

3)
Argentine Primera División: 1989–90
Torneo Clausura: 1991

Serie B: 1993–94
Coppa Italia: 1995–96
Supercoppa Italiana: 1996

Serie A: 2000–01
Supercoppa Italiana: 2001

[rafathegaffa83]

First - Laurent Blanc?

[Crosby Nick]

First - Laurent Blanc?

Tres bien.

[FiSh77]

2 Christian Ziege?

3 Batistuta?

[Crosby Nick]

2 Christian Ziege?

3 Batistuta?

Smashed it.

[gary75]

Only six clubs have won the premier league.....

One player played for four of these clubs (in premier league era)  but never won it himself,
Who is he?

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Only six clubs have won the premier league.....

One player played for four of these clubs (in premier league era)  but never won it himself,
Who is he?

Paul Dickov if my recollection of him coming through at Arsenal is true? He's definitely done City and Leicester a couple of times when they were shit and I think he had spell at Blackburn.

[gary75]

Paul Dickov if my recollection of him coming through at Arsenal is true? He's definitely done City and Leicester a couple of times when they were shit and I think he had spell at Blackburn.

Yeah! Well done, you got it a lot quicker than I did!

[Crosby Nick]

Paul Dickov if my recollection of him coming through at Arsenal is true? He's definitely done City and Leicester a couple of times when they were shit and I think he had spell at Blackburn.

Well done, I was struggling with that one. Good question too.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Yeah! Well done, you got it a lot quicker than I did!

I just figured three of the clubs would be Leicester, Blackburn and City as for the most part they've been as bad as each other and would be the ones most likely to share players whilst not coming close to the title. Worked it backwards from there.

[gary75]

That's how I got it too, disregarded the man utd link as they were dominating the league up until 2012, but even then I needed a couple if clues,
Retired
Non-english,
Coach of lower league side.

[skipper757]

I was going to add two other clues to this, but it might have made a tricky one, somewhat easier given this player is one of the few players to have achieved one feat for his national team, while one of his clubs were one of the few to do something else.

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My former managers included a World Cup Winner, a European Championship Winner, a European Cup Winner, two European Cup Winners Cup Winners and a Coppa Italia Winner. I won one major trophy in my career.

My former teammates include:

Barry Venison
Karl-Heinz Riedle
Emile Heskey
Djimi Traore
Dwight Yorke
Andy Cole
Nicky Butt
Peter Beardsley
Stan Collymore
Joe Hart
Ben Foster
Edwin van der Sar
Alex Hleb
Johan Djourou
Nicklas Bendtner

This was stumping me for a while, so I ended up doing some Wiki'ing.

Wasn't sure about the club and international feats though.

EDIT:  I'll just add a spoiler tag for the player instead of asking a question.

Spoiler

Maik Taylor

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[Statto Red]

Paul Dickov if my recollection of him coming through at Arsenal is true? He's definitely done City and Leicester a couple of times when they were shit and I think he had spell at Blackburn.

Paul Dickov, funny thing he had 6 years in is his first spell at Man City, but only had 1 season in the Premier League, he was a City player when they were in the old division 2, now league one.

[Prof]

I love doing these, mainly because I'm really good at them.

Try all these too
https://www.sporcle.com/games/sixte105/football-players-mapped-out

If you scroll down after, there is about 20 of them.

Class, thanks

Is there a way to pass on an answer?

[Crosby Nick]

Good quiz that map one. Got 18/20. A couple were tricky trying to work out where they started!

[Crosby Nick]

Class, thanks

Is there a way to pass on an answer?

Scroll right to left on the image

[rafathegaffa83]

This was stumping me for a while, so I ended up doing some Wiki'ing.

Wasn't sure about the club and international feats though.

EDIT:  I'll just add a spoiler tag for the player instead of asking a question.

Spoiler

Maik Taylor

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Spoiler

The hints I took out were that Birmingham are of the few clubs to have won a cup and get relegated in the same year.

Taylor is also one of the few players to have played for a country without having no family ties to it. He was born in Germany to a German mother and English father. He grew up in Germany and England. But because of a quirk in nationality rules he was able to pick one of the home nations to play for, as he was eligible for all of them. He thus played for N. Ireland despite having no connection to it

The trophies listed were all won by his managers as players:

World Cup: Riedle
Euros: Tigana
Cup Winners Cup: McLeish/Bruce
European Cup: Souness/Keegan
Coppa Italia: Souness

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[El Lobo]

Good quiz that map one. Got 18/20. A couple were tricky trying to work out where they started!

Same

Couldn’t get

Spoiler

Platt and Corluka

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[Crosby Nick]

Same

Couldn’t get

Spoiler

Platt and Corluka

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Got them. The ones I couldn’t get were because I mixed up Romania (wrongly) with his country of birth and one of the Dutch ones who played everywhere.

[Prof]

Scroll right to left on the image

Ah thanks

[skipper757]

Looking through Sporcle, this user that created the map quiz has a ton of these:

https://www.sporcle.com/user/sixte105/quizzes/?quiz-filter=mapped&order_by=plays

3 "published" by Sporcle (I guess some verification) but 17 others that were contributed.

[skipper757]

Spoiler

The hints I took out were that Birmingham are of the few clubs to have won a cup and get relegated in the same year.

Taylor is also one of the few players to have played for a country without having no family ties to it. He was born in Germany to a German mother and English father. He grew up in Germany and England. But because of a quirk in nationality rules he was able to pick one of the home nations to play for, as he was eligible for all of them. He thus played for N. Ireland despite having no connection to it

The trophies listed were all won by his managers as players:

World Cup: Riedle
Euros: Tigana
Cup Winners Cup: McLeish/Bruce
European Cup: Souness/Keegan
Coppa Italia: Souness

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Spoiler

  Ah, got it.  Very interesting story and career.

From your quiz and explanation, I just remembered about both Lewis Holtby and Aaron Hunt.  Both were born in Germany and could've played for England through an English parent.  Given Taylor's journey, I was wondering today why they never gave the other home nations a look until I just saw they both had German caps.    They were good prospects but didn't realized they both received German caps.  I remembered reading somewhere that Holtby's dad is a massive Blue, so I always used to wonder why Everton didn't give him a look.

On another note, it's incredible the number of random players that were on loan or played for Birmingham City.  I always remembered Roger Johnson, Scott Dann, and Liam Ridgewell as solid defenders on those teams (great for PL fantasy) along with a few others (Cameron Jerome, Seb Larsson, Hleb on loan there, Christian Benitez, Mauro Zarate, etc), but didn't know just how many players had a stint there through those years.

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