Association Football Trivia Thread

[Liquid]

Scoring for the most international sides? Could be a Yugoslavia -> Serbia & Montenegro -> Serbia or Montenegro scenario.

A lot of players did the Soviet Union -> CIS -> Former Soviet Republics route but not sure if someone scored for all three of them.

 

[Famine]

Prosinecki's could be something to do with scoring for both Yugoslavia and Croatia.

Scoring for the most international sides?

Prosinecki's is something to do with scoring for two different international sides, but Rrahmani's isn't.

I think between you that you're close enough to the connection: scoring while representing a different national team than they'd originally represented. Not quite close enough to the feats yet though

 

[Liquid]

Prosinecki's is something to do with scoring for two different international sides, but Rrahmani's isn't.

I think between you that you're close enough to the connection: scoring while representing a different national team than they'd originally represented. Not quite close enough to the feats yet though

So it's to do with scoring while representing a different national team than normal even though Rrahmani's isn't about scoring, is that right?

It could be doing it in the same calendar year.
Scoring own goals for two different international teams.
Or something else we haven't worked out yet.

 

[polysmut]

Rrahmani's isn't about scoring, is that right?

I think they're both about scoring.

unique - but different - goalscoring feats

 

[Barra333]

Prosinecki's is something to do with scoring for two different international sides

Scoring for and against a given nation?

 

[Famine]

Scoring for and against a given nation?

No-one has done that yet - but you're close to one of the answers there.

 

[Barra333]

No-one has done that yet - but you're close to one of the answers there.

Played for and against a nation?

 

[Famine]

Played for and against a nation?

Nearly - but needs at least one goal to be a goalscoring feat

 

[Liquid]

Scoring and/or playing against a national team you have previously represented and scored for?

 

[Famine]

Scoring and/or playing against a national team you have previously represented and scored for?

Close enough.

Amir Rrahmani played one match for Kosovo - one of Kosovo's very first matches, against Senegal - and then later went on to play for Albania. He's represented Albania twice and in one of those games they played Kosovo... and Rrahmani scored the equaliser.

So Rrahmani's goalscoring feat is he is the only player in the world to score an international goal against a national side he'd also previously represented.

Which leaves Robert Prosinecki's - and the connection which you'd already got is that it involves playing for two different national teams... I'll add that he scored for both (which is unusual but not unique) and as they were Yugoslavia and Croatia, they never played each other...

 

[polysmut]

I'll add that he scored for both (which is unusual but not unique)

According to Wikipedia, it's unique that he did it in World Cup Finals tournaments.

It was in 1998 that Prosinečki and the Croatian squad won third place in the World Cup, with Prosinečki scoring two goals along the way - this making him the only player in history to have scored World Cup finals goals for two different nations.

 

[Famine]

According to Wikipedia, it's unique that he did it in World Cup Finals tournaments.

Well... that's the answer yes...

 

[polysmut]

Well... that's the answer yes...

Ah. I thought the question had concluded & that I was adding something extra.
It turns out I just inadvertently cheated. Apologies. Maybe I should be docked a point.

 

[daan]

Maurice Malpas, of Tannadice Street's Dundee United fame, is the correct answer. His 617 league appearances for Dundee United between 1979 and 2000 is a Scottish record for a one-club man.

Bob Ferrier seems to have played 626 league games for Motherwell, and didn't play for anyone else.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ferrier_(English_footballer)
http://www.scottishleague.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=253

 

[Liquid]

Bob Ferrier seems to have played 626 league games for Motherwell, and didn't play for anyone else.

Very good.

 

[Liquid]

What dubious record is held by Birmingham City's Frank Womack?

 

[Barra333]

Consecutive games with a red card or most red cards in a season?

 

[Liquid]

Consecutive games with a red card or most red cards in a season?

No.

 

[adamp93]

What dubious record is held by Birmingham City's Frank Womack?

I'm thinking literally so most missed penalties in a season?

 

[polysmut]

Most own goals in a season or a career?

 

[Liquid]

I'm thinking literally so most missed penalties in a season?

Most own goals in a season or a career?

Neither of those things but it is to do with his whole career and not just a particular game or season.

 

[Liquid]

@Famine might get this one if I say that it's something Des Walker is almost known for.

 

[Famine]

@Famine might get this one if I say that it's something Des Walker is almost known for.

Or Rob Jones?

 

[Liquid]

Or Rob Jones?

Yes. Definitely along the right lines; Mr Womack finished his career with a very dubious distinction.

 

[polysmut]

Yes. Definitely along the right lines; Mr Womack finished his career with a very dubious distinction.

The highest amount of occurrences of doing something that would be considered to be a mistake or something detrimental to the team/game?

 

[Liquid]

The highest amount of occurrences of doing something that would be considered to be a mistake or something detrimental to the team/game?

The highest amount of occurances for something which most other players do but he didn't.

Clue: He, like Rob Jones and Des Walker, was a defender. Jones and Walker, however, did do the thing Womack didn't. But only just.

 

[Famine]

The highest amount of occurrences of doing something that would be considered to be a mistake or something detrimental to the team/game?

If it's what I think - and I suspect it is - it's literally the opposite of that.

 

[Liquid]

I did say that it was a dubious distinction. Care to take a guess as to what it is?

 

[polysmut]

If it's what I think - and I suspect it is - it's literally the opposite of that.

So, the least amount of games played before making a big error?

 

[adamp93]

Longest career by an outfield player without a goal?