Useless football trivia -impress your friends at dinner parties

[Juan Albion]

Name the team who won the World Cup without winning the final?

Uruguay (1950)

 

[sam86]

I'd love to take the credit, but my friend got it - Bolo Zenden.

 

[astevens76]

Anelka, Paulo Wanchope and Les Ferdinand?

ferdinand is right too

ferdinand & kevin campbell so far

one left

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Name the members of England's 1990 World Cup Squad
(clue - 4 keepers, 7 Defenders, 7 Midfielders and 5 forwards)

Shilton
Woods
Seaman
Beasant

Stevens
Parker
Pearce
Dorigo
Wright
Butcher
??

Platt
McMahon
Gascoigne
Steven
Robson
Hodge ??
Webb ??

Lineker
Bull
Beardsley
Waddle
Barnes

 

[Juan Albion]

Three English football teams with ... tee hee ... RUDE words as part of their name?

LiverPOOl
BlackPOOl
HartlePOOl

So there. Tee hee.

 

[astevens76]

Name the team who won the World Cup without winning the final?

brazil '90?

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

I'd love to take the credit, but my friend got it - Bolo Zenden.

That's the TICKET!

 

[sam86]

Corr, the same friend has just given me this.
I'll look it up to confirm it's true, if so, BLINDING TRIVIA.

Which player came on in an international match, as a replacement for his father?

No cheating now!

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Uruguay (1950)

Correct

There were only 4 teams and it was a round robin format, therefore there was no final.

 

[Juan Albion]

Corr, the same friend has just give me this.
I'll look it up to confirm it's true, if so, BLINDING TRIVIA.

Which player came on in an international match, as a replacement for his father?

No cheating now!

Pure guess. Jordi Cruyff

 

[1066familyman]

Shilton
Woods
Seaman
Beasant

Stevens
Parker
Pearce
Dorigo
Wright
Butcher
??

Platt
McMahon
Gascoigne
Steven
Robson
Hodge ??
Webb ??

Lineker
Bull
Beardsley
Waddle
Barnes

Good shouts there.

Wasn't Steve Bull the only one not playing in the top flight at the time ? Playing for Wolves.

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

Corr, the same friend has just given me this.
I'll look it up to confirm it's true, if so, BLINDING TRIVIA.

Which player came on in an international match, as a replacement for his father?

No cheating now!

I know this as I had a bumper book of football Triva.

Unless my memory is playing tricks on me then I think it's Eidur Gudjohnson

 

[sam86]

Pure guess. Jordi Cruyff

Nope.

I've looked it up, and it is true. Brilliant trivia!

 

[astevens76]

Corr, the same friend has just given me this.
I'll look it up to confirm it's true, if so, BLINDING TRIVIA.

Which player came on in an international match, as a replacement for his father?

No cheating now!

eidur gudjohnsen?

 

[mistahclarke]

I know this as I had a bumper book of football Triva.

Unless my memory is playing tricks on me then I think it's Eidur Gudjohnson

The Bonds played in the same match. But that might have been for West Ham.

 

[sam86]

I know this as I had a bumper book of football Triva.

Unless my memory is playing tricks on me then I think it's Eidur Gudjohnson

Well that didn't last long.

Yep. Eidur Gudjohnson it is.

On 24 April 1996, Guðjohnsen and his father Arnór entered football history when playing in an international friendly for Iceland against Estonia in Tallinn. Arnór started the match, and Guðjohnsen came on in the second half as a substitute for his father.

Both father and son have later expressed bitterness at the fact that they were not allowed to play together in the match. The president of the Icelandic FA, Eggert Magnússon (later of West Ham United) gave the coach, Logi Ólafsson, an express order to not play them together because he wanted it to happen on home turf, when Iceland played FYR Macedonia two months later in the first qualification round for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.[2]

As it happened they never got another chance because a month after the game in Estonia the younger Guðjohnsen broke his ankle, playing for the Icelandic U18 team against Ireland. He had difficulty coming back because of undiagnosed tendinitis in that ankle.

 

[1066familyman]

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[Juan Albion]

Nope.

I've looked it up, and it is true. Brilliant trivia!

Yeah, I checked too after I wrote it.

But I did find out that Jordi played nine times for the Netherlands, scoring one goal.

But he also played nine times for another national team, scoring twice as many goals. Can you name that other 'national team'?

 

[sam86]

Yeah, I checked too after I wrote it.

But I did find out that Jordi played nine times for the Netherlands, scoring one goal.

But he also played nine times for another national team, scoring twice as many goals. Can you name that other 'national team'?

Only thing I can think of is Spain, because he grew up there, and played for Barca...

 

[Gully]

Yeah, I checked too after I wrote it.

But I did find out that Jordi played nine times for the Netherlands, scoring one goal.

But he also played nine times for another national team, scoring twice as many goals. Can you name that other 'national team'?

I think he may have dual nationality with Spain, so it could be for them, or maybe someone like Andorra.