Quiz Thread

Charisteas

I'll take a wild guess at Owen Hargreaves or Victor Moses.

Al Capwned

Ryan Giggs played for England schoolboys didnt he? Did he play against Wales?

Charisteas

Jarrod wrote: »

Dejan Stankovic? I'm guessing someone who played for Yugoslavia, Serbia or Serbia and Montenegro.

I was thinking the same, but then how could he have played against Yugoslavia?

roanoke

Is there many players still around who could have played for Yugoslavia before the split? Seems like they'd all be in their 40's now.

(BTW, can I confirm we're talking about a guy who has played at senior level for two countries? ie not Ryan Giggs)

Al Capwned

Didnt Dwight Yorke play for Trinidad and Tobago?


:pac:

Jarrod

Yeah, I suppose he probably couldn't have played against them. He did definitely play for them though. He's the only player to play in a WC with 3 different teams.

Maybe someone for Croatia and Yugoslavia. I know Prosinecki (?sp.) played for both but I'm sure he's retired. Dunno if anyone still playing would have.

Pinturicchio

roanoke wrote: »

(BTW, can I confirm we're talking about a guy who has played at senior level for two countries? ie not Ryan Giggs)

Yes, it's senior level.

He actually played for a third country at under age level!

Jax Teller

Kanoute ?

Pinturicchio

Jax Teller wrote: »

Kanoute ?

No.

Al Capwned

I know di Stefano and Puskas would be two of the more well known ones that did it, as well as quite a few Irish footballers too. But that's years back.

But i thought you could only play for another country if you had just played U21 for your 'first' country. Like yer man Carl Jenkinson did for Finland.

Red Crow

Jermaine Jones?

batistuta9

roanoke wrote: »

Is there many players still around who could have played for Yugoslavia before the split? Seems like they'd all be in their 40's now.

(BTW, can I confirm we're talking about a guy who has played at senior level for two countries? ie not Ryan Giggs)

Yugoslavia was playing up until recently enough the start of the '00 although it was just serbia & montenegro as yugoslavia. Then they changed the name to serbia & montenegro


so i'm going vucinic

Pinturicchio

batistuta9 wrote: »

so i'm going vucinic

No.

It's nothing to do with Yugoslavia. No one can have played for and against Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro because they never existed at the same time. One replaced the other.

5starpool

Al Capwned wrote: »

I know di Stefano and Puskas would be two of the more well known ones that did it, as well as quite a few Irish footballers too. But that's years back.

But i thought you could only play for another country if you had just played U21 for your 'first' country. Like yer man Carl Jenkinson did for Finland.

Has to be a competitive game. Raheem Sterling could still play for Jamaica for example, although he has played for England in a friendly, although he has said he will stick with England.

Lovely Bloke

Tim Cahill

batistuta9

Pinturicchio wrote: »

No.

It's nothing to do with Yugoslavia. No one can have played for and against Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro because they never existed at the same time. One replaced the other.

this is the question, you never mention the same time

Pinturicchio wrote: »

Name a (modern, not retired) player who has played for and against the same national team

Vucini played for Serbia & Montenegro and for Montenegro

but yeah one replaced the other and if you're pedantic enough Serbia & Montenegro isn't the same as Montenegro

Lovely Bloke

batistuta9 wrote: »

this is the question, you never mention the same time


Vucini played for Serbia & Montenegro and for Montenegro

but yeah one replaced the other and if you're pedantic enough Serbia & Montenegro isn't the same as Montenegro

Did he play against Serbia?

G.K.

Only name that comes to mind atm is Jermaine Jones, already been said though.

batistuta9

TheNinthGate wrote: »

Did he play against Serbia?

I don't think so

Pinturicchio

batistuta9 wrote: »

this is the question, you never mention the same time

There has to have been a game between the two teams for the player to play for one team against the other.

So for the two teams to play each other, they have to have existed at the same time.

Jarrod

Have Catalonia and Spain ever played each other? Maybe Puyol?

batistuta9

Pinturicchio wrote: »

There has to have been a game between the two teams for the player to play for one team against the other.

So for the two teams to play each other, they have to have existed at the same time.

yeah i get you now, i misunderstood the question a bit there


so i'm going vucinic :pac:

Peppa Pig

The closest I can get is Packy Bonner, whose testimonial was against Ireland.
But he's retired...

Washington Irving

Peppa Pig wrote: »

The closest I can get is Packy Bonner, whose testimonial was against Ireland.
But he's retired...

This got me thinking, does he have to have played against a national team for another national team? Or is it like Bonner playing for a club side against a national team?


Would Vuncinic count? As Serbia & Montenegro were technically a different team to Serbia though Serbia did inherit Serbia & Montenegro's ranking etc. and Montenegro were treated as a new team

Peppa Pig

Is it Kristian Nushi for Albania and Kosovo?

Pinturicchio

Peppa Pig wrote: »

Is it Kristian Nushi for Albania and Kosovo?

Great shout. He's not the one I'm thinking of. He has played for both teams, but I can't find any record of him playing against either of them.

I think this was the last time they met. He didn't feature. http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.coupe.kosovo.albanie.20861.en.html

Any time before that, he would've just been a teenager so he probably hasn't.

DDC1990

Its not Kevin Prince Boateng is it.

Played all under age for Germany (maybe played a friendly I don't know), then played against Germany for Ghana in the 2010 World Cup.

Lawrence1895

DDC1990 wrote: »

Its not Kevin Prince Boateng is it.

Played all under age for Germany (maybe played a friendly I don't know), then played against Germany for Ghana in the 2010 World Cup.

Was it Hans Sarpei? I remember him from the Bundesliga

Oat23

Jong Tae-Se possibly played a friendly for Japan before switching to NK and then played them in WC qualifying?

This is a tough one.

@DDC1990 - KPB never made a senior appearance for Germany, only up to U-21.

Pinturicchio

I'm going to get lynched when I reveal the answer to this.:o I wasn't expecting it to run for so long.


A clue: He played for and against a national team. The team he played against them for may not technically be a national team.

He also played under age football for another country again.

He plays in one of Europe's top leagues and has recently been linked with a transfer to one of the biggest teams in Europe.

Captain Havoc

Is it a Barcelona player that played for Catalonia or a Bilbao player that played for the Basque country?

Jarrod

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Is it a Barcelona player that played for Catalonia or a Bilbao player that played for the Basque country?

I suggested the Catalonia idea a page or two back and it wasn't replied to so I feckin' hope not! Although I'm pretty sure Spain have never played Catalonia or the Basque Country so I don't think anyone could have played against Spain for either of them.

Captain Havoc

Jarrod wrote: »

I suggested the Catalonia idea a page or two back and it wasn't replied to so I feckin' hope not! Although I'm pretty sure Spain have never played Catalonia or the Basque Country so I don't think anyone could have played against Spain for either of them.

I'm not thinking Spain, a foreigner at either of those clubs that played against their home country while playing there, e.g. Messi against Argentina or Dani Alves against Brazil.

Jarrod

Captain Havoc wrote: »

I'm not thinking Spain, a foreigner at either of those clubs that played against their home country while playing there, e.g. Messi against Argentina or Dani Alves against Brazil.

I think Catalonia etc. are classed as national teams and that you'd have to be from Catalonia to play for them. Although given Barcelona's pride in being a Catalan club maybe they allow Barca players to play for them. I don't know for sure though.

Lovely Bloke

They don't, Messi has never played for Catalunya, the qualification criteria for Catalunya and Euskadi are the same as all other NTs.

Just read something interesting.

After the fall of the distatorship, the Basque's first game was against a LoI XI

TaosHum

Kevin - Prince Boateng is the only one thats coming to my mind. He played with the Germen youth teams before switching to Ghana, where he played against his brother vs Germany in the World Cup.

markie29

wonder is it someone from the Basque part of spain they have some teams against international teams

Amorbieta was born in the basque region

intellectual dosser

Darren Gibson played underage for Northern Ireland. I remember there was an ROI vs NI game a few years ago, obviously havent a clue on the underage return.

Jarrod

markie29 wrote: »

wonder is it someone from the Basque part of spain they have some teams against international teams

Amorbieta was born in the basque region

I think you have it. He played for Spain underage, Venezuela at senior level and, according to wiki, made his debut for the Basque country against Venezuela. Thank God somebody finally got that one.

intellectual dosser

Oh balls - is it Niall Quinn?

Did he play for Sunderland against Ireland in his testimonial?

Edit: I couldnt resist a google and indeed he did.

Jarrod

intellectual dosser wrote: »

Oh balls - is it Niall Quinn?

Did he play for Sunderland against Ireland in his testimonial?

Edit: I couldnt resist a google and indeed he did.

Yeah, but the clue mentioned that he's still playing in one of Europe's top leagues. And, I think if you included testimonials then there'd be loads of them. It's Amorbieta, I googled it after somebody else had said him.

Oat23

intellectual dosser wrote: »

Oh balls - is it Niall Quinn?

Did he play for Sunderland against Ireland in his testimonial?

Edit: I couldnt resist a google and indeed he did.

That is what I was trying to think of last night. I couldn't get Zinedine Kilbane's name out of my head so i gave up! I remembered an Irish international playing against Ireland for half a game. Has to be an active player though as said above.

intellectual dosser

Jarrod wrote: »

Yeah, but the clue mentioned that he's still playing in one of Europe's top leagues. And, I think if you included testimonials then there'd be loads of them. It's Amorbieta, I googled it after somebody else had said him.

Ah - with everyone bringing their ideas from different directions its easy to forget details of the original question.

Cheers!

Jarrod

I'm just grateful that someone finally got it. That one was doing my head in.

intellectual dosser

After that I'm going for a Rapid Fire Buzzer Round type of question:

First non-European to score 100 Premier League goals?

Pinturicchio

markie29 wrote: »

wonder is it someone from the Basque part of spain they have some teams against international teams

Amorbieta was born in the basque region

Boom! At last, well done.

Jarrod

intellectual dosser wrote: »

After that I'm going for a Rapid Fire Buzzer Round type of question:

First non-European to score 100 Premier League goals?

Dwight Yorke?

intellectual dosser

Jarrod wrote: »

Dwight Yorke?

Correct!

See? Now we're flying!

roanoke

Explain this sequence of letters and numbers :

HB5,MD5,RF5,RR5,FS6,JC7,RD9

GavRedKing

roanoke wrote: »

Explain this sequence of letters and numbers :

HB5,MD5,RF5,RR5,FS6,JC7,RD9

Personalised license plate numbers?