Association Football Trivia Thread

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Famine
No, but you have the right surname for the bitey one. I'll allow it, even though he's the third most-capped footballer of all time.
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I was trying to do it without looking for the answer. :o
 
Hokay, since the Americans have largely never played outside of their own country, I'll fill in all but one...
Famine
AFC all-time - Mohamed Al-Deayea (Saudi Arabia, 178); @Liquid
AFC current - Bader Al-Mutawa (Kuwait, 158); @Liquid
OFC all-time - Ivan Vicelich (88); @Liquid
OFC current - Shane Smeltz (New Zealand, 51); @Liquid
CAF all-time - (Egypt, 184)
CAF current - Ahmed Fathi (Egypt, 106)
CONCACAF all-time - Claudio Suarez (Mexico, 177); @DK
CONCACAF current - Noel Valladares (Honduras, 132)
CONMEBOL all-time - Iván Hurtado (Ecuador, 168)
CONMEBOL current - Paulo da Silva (Paraguay, 130)
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Which leaves us with the question...

Who is the most-capped footballer of all time?
 
Ahmed Hassan. That's the fella!
 
Liquid
Ahmed Hassan. That's the fella!
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That name strikes a chord, was trying to think of it myself without resorting to Google for days.:lol:
 
Liquid
Ahmed Hassan. That's the fella!
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Yep. Which leaves us with:

AFC all-time - Mohamed Al-Deayea (Saudi Arabia, 178); @Liquid
AFC current - Bader Al-Mutawa (Kuwait, 158); @Liquid
OFC all-time - Ivan Vicelich (88); @Liquid
OFC current - Shane Smeltz (New Zealand, 51); @Liquid
CAF all-time - Ahmed Hassan (Egypt, 184); @Liquid
CAF current - Ahmed Fathi (Egypt, 106)
CONCACAF all-time - Claudio Suarez (Mexico, 177); @DK
CONCACAF current - Noel Valladares (Honduras, 132)
CONMEBOL all-time - Iván Hurtado (Ecuador, 168)
CONMEBOL current - Paulo da Silva (Paraguay, 130)

Alongside them is:
UEFA all-time - Vitālijs Astafjevs (Latvia, 165) & Iker Casillas (Spain, 165)
UEFA current - Iker Casillas (Spain, 165)

Which makes Casillas the only player to be both his confederation's most-capped active player and most-capped player.

This list also contains six of the seven most-capped players of all time, with Casillas and Astafjevs being joint 6th. The only one not on the list is Hossam Hassan, who @Liquid mentioned earlier, who retired from international football in 2006, after 169 caps for Egypt and is 4th overall.
 
Who was the first person to win medals at Old Wembley and New Wembley?
 
Got no idea on names, but the fact that you are looking for a single person indicates that they did it with 2 different teams. If it was the same team, I expect there would be more than one person involved.
 
The name who immediately spring to mind is John Terry, he might have been on the bench for the last FA Cup final to be held at the old one in 2001 and he certainly won medals at the new Wembley....
 
Dennis Wise was probably too early for new Wembley? He's my guess anyway.
 
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Dennis Wise was probably too early for new Wembley? He's my guess anyway.
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Yes he was, Millwall's 2004 FA Cup final defeat happened in Cardiff.

Clues:

Winner on the two occasions in question
Left-winger
A team in blue, then a team in red
 
Edit: No, neither was.

MUSC4EVER
The name who immediately spring to mind is John Terry, he might have been on the bench for the last FA Cup final to be held at the old one in 2001 and he certainly won medals at the new Wembley....
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Well, I gave some clues and the second time, at New Wembley, the player was playing for a team in red.
 
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This is going to be something like FA trophy or Johnstone's Paint trophy, isn't it?
 
Luke
FA trophy
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Bingo! The second one for the team in red was the FA Trophy.

The first, for the team in blue, was a major trophy but not the FA Cup.
 
I was looking up the firsts at New Wembley the other day and knew it was the first trophy won, it finished 3-2 to the winning team but I can't remember either team that played, never mind any players.:lol:
 
You can get this one.

- Left-winger
- First medal was with a team in blue, second was the FA Trophy with a team in red
- One-cap wonder for England
- Played under one particular manager at three different clubs
- Played in the Premiership and the SPL before returning to England
 
The answer was, of course, Steve Guppy. Not only was he the first to win medals at old Wembley (League Cup, Leicester 2000) and new Wembley (FA Trophy, Stevenage 2007) but he is also the only player to play for England, England B, England C and England U-21s.

Here's an easier one for you:

Which Premier League player has the most wins as a Premier League manager?
 
The first name that came to my head is Gianfranco Zola.
 
Barra333
The first name that came to my head is Gianfranco Zola.
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He won 23 games as West Ham manager but that's not the record.

Luke
David Moyes?
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David Moyes never played in the Premier League. His playing career during the time of the Premier League was Dunfermline and Preston.
 
Ah, I sort of assumed Preston would have had at least 1 season in the Premier League.

Mark Hughes?
 
Luke
Mark Hughes?
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Correctamundo with 182 victories. 82 with Blackburn, 36 with Man City, 14 with Fulham, 8 with QPR and 42 with Stoke.

Your turn.
 
Recently a lot has been made about Jamie Vardy and the Premier League record for scoring in consecutive games. On this theme, I want to know...

Of Europe's big 5 football countries, who has scored in the most consecutive top flight games and how many games did they score in?
 
Luke
Recently a lot has been made about Jamie Vardy and the Premier League record for scoring in consecutive games. On this theme, I want to know...
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@Liquid has just spat his breakfast all over his monitor.
 
Luke
Of Europe's big 5 football countries, who has scored in the most consecutive top flight games and how many games did they score in?
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Can you give us your definition of the 5 big countries?

English record is Jimmy Dunne with 18 goals in 12 games.
 
If I had to guess, I would say England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy.

But, I am yet to get anything right in this thread....
 
1 point for Barra! :p

Yes, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
 
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Well England's record is 18 goals in 12 games. That's the only one I know for sure.

France's won't be very high.

But because we are talking about all time, Italy and Spain might; the halcyon days of the 1950s could have seen an avalanche of consecutive goals but I wouldn't know where to start. Possibly Puskas, Charles, di Stefano, Piola, Nordahl or even Ronaldo de Lima, Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi.

Germany's consecutive record is almost certainly Gerd Müller but I wouldn't know the stats without cheating.
 
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I'm looking for one player, the most of all those leagues put together. Not each individual one.
 
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