Football trivia

[Gazz]

I was thinking Jody Morris.

I would have got 5 as Walsall Wood are local to me (my U11s are playing them on Sunday) and I remember the fanfare they tried to drum up because they'd signed an 'ex-Man United star'.

[Cymbols]

Jon Harley is correct - nice one

[Cymbols]

Fun/super annoying challenge for y’all. Try and put together the strongest XI that you can, with the following parameters:

- Must’ve played while you were alive

- Only one from any club

- Only one from any country

So for example if you picked Cristiano Ronaldo you could not pick anyone else who has ever played for Portugal, Sporting, United, Madrid, or Juve.

It is really fucking annoying this. My team is in spoilers below -

[9 to 5]

This has ruined my day once as it is.

[Rich]

1 hour ago, Cymbols said:

Fun/super annoying challenge for y’all. Try and put together the strongest XI that you can, with the following parameters:

- Must’ve played while you were alive

- Only one from any club

- Only one from any country

So for example if you picked Cristiano Ronaldo you could not pick anyone else who has ever played for Portugal, Sporting, United, Madrid, or Juve.

It is really fucking annoying this. My team is in spoilers below -

 

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GK Gregory Coupet (Fra - Saint Etienne, Lyon, Atletico Madrid, PSG)

DF Maldini (Ita - Milan)
DF Zanetti (Arg - Talleres, Banfied & Inter)
DF King (Eng - Tottenham)
DF Van Dijk - (Ned - Groninigen, Celtic, Southampton, Liverpool)

MF Xavi (Esp - Barcelona)
MF Fernandinho (Bra - Atlético Paranaense, Shaktar, Man City)
MF Nedved (Cze - Skoda Plzen, Dukla Prague, Sparta Prague, Lazio, Juventus)
MF Giggs (Wal - Man Utd)

FW Muller (Ger - Bayer Munchen)
FW  Suker (Cro - Osijeck, Dinamo Zagreb, Sevilla, Real Madrid, Arsenal, West Ham, 1860 Munich)

[Benji]

Mine was:

GK Andreas Kopke

RB Gary Kelly
LB Paulo Maldini
DC Tony Adams
DC Frank Leboeuf

RM Mo Salah
LM Ryan Giggs
MC Koke
MC Luka Modric

FW Bebeto
FW Lionel Messi

[Rich]

2 minutes ago, Benji said:

Mine was:

GK Andreas Kopke

RB Gary Kelly
LB Paulo Maldini
DC Tony Adams
DC Frank Leboeuf

RM Mo Salah
LM Ryan Giggs
MC Koke
MC Luka Modric

FW Bebeto
FW Lionel Messi

I considered Kopke, had Adams and Lebouef as a defence for a good while and had Modric in until near the end when I wanted to change up my forward line, I was in a 4-5-1 for a while, it was very Spain winning trophies without a striker!

 

EDIT: Wait, haven't Salah and Lebouef both played at Chelsea?

[Benji]

3 minutes ago, Rich said:

EDIT: Wait, haven't Salah and Lebouef both played at Chelsea?

... fucks sakes. You have no idea how much time I spent concocting this earlier today.

Fuck it, Ray Houghton or Patrik Berger in for Salah.

[TCO]

Spoiler

 

Oblak

Cafu - Koulibaly - Van Dijk - Alaba

Verratti - De Bruyne

 Pires - Messi - Ronaldo

Kane

 

Without looking at the others. This is what I could come up with, very difficult task!

[Colly]

12 hours ago, 9 to 5 said:

This has ruined my day once as it is.

It can't be done, if you have Maldini you can't have Coloccini and that is plain wrong.

[MDK]

And if you picked Colo you can't have Albert

He is captain of moustache xi

[METALMAN]

21 hours ago, Cymbols said:

Fun/super annoying challenge for y’all. Try and put together the strongest XI that you can, with the following parameters:

- Must’ve played while you were alive

- Only one from any club

- Only one from any country

So for example if you picked Cristiano Ronaldo you could not pick anyone else who has ever played for Portugal, Sporting, United, Madrid, or Juve.

It is really fucking annoying this. My team is in spoilers below -

 

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1. Oliver Kahn

2. Paolo Maldini

3. Fernando Hierro

4. Vincent Kompany

5.  Ricardo Pereira

6. Steven Gerrard

7. Didier Deschamps

8. Leo Messi

9. Ryan Giggs

10. Ally McCoist 

11. Dennis Bergkamp 

 

I don't have a Brazilian, which is a bit odd. Guess I can stick Bebeto on the bench...

Edited April 15, 2020 by metalman

[gunnar hendershow]

Been working on assembling that team, it's been a challenge to get the last 2.

An extra hard mode for it is that you must have Zlatan on your squad.

[Kyle]

GK - Akinfeev
LB - Schmelzer
CB - Van Dijk
CB - Maldini
RB - Coleman
CM - Ruben Neves
CM - Casemiro
LW - Giggs
CAM - De Bruyne
RW - Messi
ST - Kane

Please tell me none of these clash  

[METALMAN]

I was talking to my dad about this today and he said “why don’t you put Billy Bremner in your team, he was a great player” and I was like “EH MAYBE BECAUSE I WASN’T ALIVE IN THE 70S YOU OLD MAN”

Edited April 15, 2020 by metalman

[gunnar hendershow]

GK - Cech (Czech Republic, Sparta Prague, Rennes, Chelsea, Arsenal)

D - Maldini (Italy, Milan)
D - Kompany (Belgium, Anderlecht, Hamburger, Man City)
D - Lahm (Germany, Bayern Munich, Stuttgart)
D - Puyol (Spain, Barcelona)

M - Gerrard (England, Liverpool, LA Galaxy)
M - Giggs (Wales, Man Utd)
M - Valderrama (Colombia, Montpellier, Real Valladolid, Tampa Bay, Miami, Colorado Rapids)
M - Zidane (France, Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus, Real)

F - Batistuta (Argentina, Newell's Old Boys, River Plate, Boca Juniors, Fiorentina, Roma, Inter, Al-Arabi)
F - Cavani (Uruguay, Palermo, Napoli, PSG)

[TCO]

News site over here is running these obscure Premier League player quizzes. Quick bit of fun and some more difficult than others.

https://www.the42.ie/test-your-knowledge-of-random-premier-league-footballers-from-the-1990s-5058256-Mar2020/

https://www.the42.ie/random-90s-premier-league-footballer-quiz-5063546-Apr2020/

https://www.the42.ie/quiz-how-many-of-these-random-90s-premier-league-footballers-can-you-identify-part-iii-5066131-Apr2020/

https://www.the42.ie/quiz-how-many-of-these-random-90s-premier-league-footballers-can-you-identify-part-iv-5073686-Apr2020/

 

[Gazz]

These are household names to anyone who completed the 1995/96 Pannini stickerbook.

[Jimmy]

On 15/04/2020 at 09:36, Colly said:

It can't be done, if you have Maldini you can't have Coloccini and that is plain wrong.

it's like if you pick Messi, you can't have Lamela and that is plain wrong 

[Colly]

I got 7 out of 10 on the first one which earned me a picture of Keven Keegan.