Team B? First xis full of players whose names begin with the same letter | Soccer

“The other day in the women’s match of the Champions League against Manchester City, Chelsea put four bronze, bright, Björn and Baltimore in the field”, E -mail Asad butt. “There are other examples of this in defense, midfield or attack?”

In 2017We answered a question regarding the male teams that put three or more players in the field with the same First name, with five Johns starting from a England XI against Switzerland In 1948: John Aston, John Haines, John Hancocks, John (‘Jack’) Rowley and John (‘Jackie’) Milburn everyone with. As mentioned by ASAD, Chelsea sided a back from the same surname letter against Manchester City at the beginning of this month (more beever-jones arguments In the first leg). But we can do better.

It is difficult to overlook the Brazilian part of the early 2000s who had a plethora of attacker stars starting with R. perhaps Giddy from their triumph of the World Cup in June 2002, the manager Luiz Felipe Scolari put in place a four from Ronaldo, Ricardinho, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho in a friendly against Paraguay (the Selte of the Army of 1-0). Roberto Carlos also started that day, while goalkeeper Rogério Ceni managed to go down on the bench. It is questionable if he had counted here, but the winner of the Zé Roberto World Cup was given in the afternoon free, as well as Roque Júnior, while Romário continued to be excluded by Scolari despite the excellent shape of the veteran for Vasco da Gama (Romário had previously been left outside the world cup team after retiring from the Copa América in 2001 To go on vacationSomething that Romário later issued a tears of apologies for).

At the game of the group of the World Cup 2022 against UruguaySouth Korea has not only appointed a defense with four names that begin with the same letter, but all four names are the same: Kim. Kim Moon-Hwan, Kim Min-Jae, Kim Young-Gwon and Kim Jin-Su rushed to the four rear, while goalkeeper Kim Seung-Gyu also started in the sticks, with those five who kept a clean sheet in a 0-0 draw. Of the 15 South Korean substitutes, Kim Tae-Hwan was unable to get out of the bench and complete half a dozen Kim for the Asian nation.

South Korea is not the only country with a surname or a dominant prefix for a surname. Only Last Week Against Kuwait, Oman Started 11 Players in Their World Cup Qualifier All Beginning Their Surname With A. Ibrahim al Mukhaini, Thani Al-Rushaids, Ahmed Al-Khamisi, Amjad Al-Harthi, Al-Busaids, Arshad Al-Alawi, Jamel Al-Yahmadi, Salaah al-Yahyaei, Abdul Rahman al-Mushaifri, Harib al-Saadi and ISSAM al-Sabhi all began for Oman, with Ahmed Al-Kaabi, Khalid al-Braiki and Muhsen al-Ghassani who came out of the bench in the second half. Of the 23 members of the Oman team that day, only Abdullah Fawaz did not have a surname starting from A.

In amateur football, it will be difficult to beat A charity game in BungayEngland in 2012. About 70 people with the surname, Bungay, went to the city of Suffolk with the same name with two teams of players, the officials, the mascots and a doctor, all called Bungay, involved in the game at Bungay Town in Bungay. The game ended 6-6, with the qualified referee John Bungay who sent Chris Bungay-Che had traveled from Queensland, Australia, to play-for having sworn.

By ignoring the teams with the same name or prefixes, can you do better than above? And -mail in the usual place: Knower@theguardian.com.

Scrabble Rouser (2)

“There are a couple of problems with the answers to Scrabble marks a question of last week“, Julian Borrill interventions.” First of all, the scrabble card is only 15 letters wide, therefore something longer than that – such as Bosnia and Herzegovina – does not adapt. Secondly, in the set of English tiles, there are only 1 of each of the high score letters (Z, Q, X, J, K), therefore Kirgyz Republic vs Kazakistan runs out the ZS and KS available. On the other hand, however, there are the various squares of words and letters-multiplies. In particular, a 15 -letter word can be positioned on 3 triple words for a total multiplier of 27x. Unfortunately, the winners here (Falkland Islands and French-Entrambic Polynesia 810 points including the Bingo bonus of 50 points) are not members of the FIFA, while the Dutch Eastern Indies (783, Pre-1945), the American Virgin Islands (588, after 1992) and Northern Ireland (567, Post-1950) have never been played with each other. However, the lack of high points of high score of Northern Ireland makes it an excellent candidate in combination, and their matches of the 1958 World Cup against Czechoslovakia (as then), with the latter played in 2 triples with the C and K on double letter squares, scores 972 points. “

What’s in a name?

“Both the new plow and the Kingsmeadow have been renamed the Cherry Red Records stadium while AFC Wimbledon played there. Another other club has brought the same name to several reasons?” ADAM Pattergood asks.

This is a very beautiful answer from Andy Kerr, from the Hampden Scottish football museum. “There are several Scottish teams who did it”, and -mail Andy. “In recent years, St Mirren has moved from St Mirren Park (better known informally as Love Street by their fans) in their current house of St Mirren Park in 2009. Going further back, Celtic built a new stadium in 1892 to a stone shot from their previous Celtic house. KilMarnock. Hampden Park (not including Lesser Hampden) when when Queen’s when Queen’s Park moved from the first and second Hampdens, took their name with them. May I was the name from the English Roundhead politician John Hampden, cousin of Oliver Cromwell. “

Step

“A fact that I have always liked is that in 2003-04, Marlon Harewood played 19 championship games for Forest, then joined West Ham, who had a game in his hand, for which he played 28 times”, Send an ee -mail to Simon Treanor a couple of weeks ago. “Therefore he played 47 times in a championship season of 46 games (plus three in the playoffs). Can anyone beat this?”

“I think Kyle Knoyle’s 2022-23 season adapts to the bill,” replies to Ian Waterhouse. “Having always been present in Doncaster Rovers in the first half of the season (25 games), a crisis of injury to the right back to Edgeley Park saw Knoyle move on to Stockport County. Two semifinals and the final.

Knowledge archive

“Which English high -level samples had the smallest ground at the time they won the championship?” meditated on Roland Tye, In 2014. “It could be worth defending in pre and post -war, they don’t guess Blackburn in the modern era.”

I imagine quite correctly for the era of the Premier League, Roland, since Ewood Park is more or less in the same state of 1995 and has a capacity of just over 31,000 (updated change: Leicester City’s King Power Stadium has held 32,262 in 2016). Highbury is the next on the list, which could adapt to 38,419 when Arsenal last won the championship in 2004. Before it is more complicated, obviously due to the changing nature of all ground and their abilities, and it is probably better to stick to the post-war house, if only it can make a house for the house. 1961-62 Champions League Ipswich, is the smallest ground to call a house winner of the post-war title, with a capacity of about 29,000.

Can you help?

“After an inactive thought previously, I wanted to find out if some players played in all football stadiums” The 92 “?”? He asks Demetri Loizou. “I see this was a question about knowledge Over 21 years ago! However, this was an entire generation of careers and would like an update with active players and the current 92 stadiums, so who would the leaders be if we can’t get to 92 in this respect? It would accept the inclusion of the managers as this could help to complete it. “

“After Iran has sealed their place in the world cup next year, rumors about fans and even players who are unable to get visas if they have to play games in the United States”, notes Pablo Miguez. “I know it happened in qualifications, but there has never been a case in which a player was not able to travel in the World Cup due to visa problems?”

“In the Hungarian division of 1947-48 (Nemzeti Bajnokság I), Ferenc Puskás scored 50 out of 82 goals marked by his Kispest AC team (later known as Budapest Henved), a surprising 60.98%”, E-mail Ben. “Any other players in any championship ever scored over 60% of their team’s goals (for the sake of excluding very short seasons, let’s say with at least 15 goals scored by the player)?”

After Luke Coulson of Weston-Super-Mare He got a long -haul score (from about 100 IARDE) To complete his hat -trick against Hornchurch in the south of the National League South “, writes Michael Butler,” was there an external player (excluding the custodians who scored football) from more outgoing? “

“Currently in the third Spanish B division, there are only 10 points between the final play-off point (fifth) and the final relegation point (16th),” writes Niall Fogg. “My Alcorcón team is slapped in the middle of the 11th and, with nine games, could realistically be promoted or relegated. I wondered: what is the closest gap between promotion and relegation that has been in a main league?”

“If Spain should interpret Wales at any time, and if Wales has put the same defensive formation in place, they played against northern fruit saladThere may be a direct clash between Nico Williams on the left wing of Spain and Williams Nechus on the right for Wales “, notes Robert Heath.” In reality, has there ever been a direct direct battle similar between two players with (almost) the same name? “