Listed below are the dates and results for the
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea an ...
qualification rounds for
UEFA
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teams.
The European section of the
2002 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea an ...
, which is being held in South Korea and Japan, for national teams which are members of the
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
. Apart from
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
, who qualified automatically as defending champions, a total of 13.5 slots in the final tournament were available for UEFA teams.
The 50 teams were divided into nine groups, five groups of six teams and four groups of five teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify. Among the runners-up, Group 2 was drawn randomly to advance to the UEFA–AFC Intercontinental play-off while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the UEFA play-offs.
In the play-offs, the eight teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The four aggregate winners qualified. The qualifying process started on 2 September 2000, after
UEFA Euro 2000
The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Championship, a football tournament held every four years and organised by UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe.
The finals tournament wa ...
, and ended on 14 November 2001.
Qualification seeding (UEFA)
The draw was made in December 1999, and was based on average points per game achieved in
1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
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and
UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2000 final tournament, took place throughout 1998 and 1999. Forty-nine teams were divided into nine groups. All teams played against each other, within their groups, on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group ...
.
France
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qualified automatically as title holders, and because
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
and
Netherlands
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, as hosts, had not had to qualify for
UEFA Euro 2000
The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Championship, a football tournament held every four years and organised by UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe.
The finals tournament wa ...
, only their 1998 World Cup result was used.
Andorra
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made their debut in World Cup qualifying.
Teams in bold eventually qualified for the final tournament, teams in ''bold italic'' qualified for the final tournament through the play-offs, and teams in ''italic'' participated in the play-offs but did not qualify for the final tournament.
Summary
Table - top row: group winners, second row: group runners-up, third row: others. The winner of each group qualified for the
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea an ...
together with winners of
play-off
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. Group 2 was chosen at random before qualifying began for its runner- up to participate in the UEFA/AFC intercontinental play-off. As runner-up in group 2, Republic of Ireland played a play-off against a team from the AFC confederation, whereas the others played against each other (UEFA play-off).
First round
The winner of each group qualified directly, the runner-up advanced to play-off (either UEFA playoff or UEFA-AFC playoff).
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Play-offs
The draw for the play-offs was held on 31 August 2001 at FIFA's headquarters in
Zürich
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, Switzerland.
The nine group runners-up were placed into one pot, with eight teams drawn into four pairings (with the first team drawn hosting the first leg). The remaining team then faced an AFC team in the
inter-confederation play-offs.
UEFA were paired to face the AFC team by decision of the
FIFA Executive Committee
The FIFA Council (formerly the FIFA Executive Committee) is an institution of FIFA (the governing body of association football, futsal and beach football). It is the main decision-making body of the organization in the intervals of FIFA Congress. ...
in October 1999.
UEFA
Belgium qualified by the aggregate score of 2–0.
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Germany qualified by the aggregate score of 5–2.
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Slovenia qualified by the aggregate score of 3–2.
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Turkey qualified by the aggregate score of 6–0.
Inter-confederation play-offs
As the
Group 2 The term Group 2 may refer to:
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runner-up was the last team to be selected in the play-off draw on 31 August 2001, that team then faced an AFC team in the
inter-confederation play-offs.
UEFA were paired to face the AFC team by decision of the
FIFA Executive Committee
The FIFA Council (formerly the FIFA Executive Committee) is an institution of FIFA (the governing body of association football, futsal and beach football). It is the main decision-making body of the organization in the intervals of FIFA Congress. ...
in October 1999,
though the order of legs was decided by the draw on 31 August 2001. The team to meet an AFC team became the Republic of Ireland.
Qualified teams
The following 15 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament.
:
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.
:
2 Competed as
Soviet Union
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.
:
3 Competed as
West Germany
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. A separate team for
East Germany
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also participated in qualifications during this time, having only competed in
1974.
Goalscorers
There were 594 goals scored in 240 matches (including 2 international play-offs), for an average of 2.48 goals per match.
;10 goals
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Andriy Shevchenko
;9 goals
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Ebbe Sand
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;8 goals
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Emmanuel Olisadebe
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Pauleta
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During 18 years as a senior he never played in the Primeira Liga, having spent 12 of those c ...
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Henrik Larsson
;7 goals
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Marc Wilmots
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Filippo Inzaghi
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Nuno Gomes
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He was given the nickname ''Gomes'' during childhood after Fernando Gomes, and was regarded ...
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Vladimir Beschastnykh
Vladimir Yevgenyevich Beschastnykh ( rus, Влади́мир Евге́ньевич Бесча́стных, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪvʲɪdʑ bʲɪˈɕːasnɨx; born 1 April 1974) is a Russian football manager and a former player who ...
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Kubilay Türkyilmaz
Kubilay Türkyilmaz (; born 4 March 1967) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a forward. He completed his international career as the all-time joint leading goal scorer for the Swiss national team, with 34 goals in 64 appear ...
;6 goals
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Michalis Konstantinou
Michalis Konstantinou ( el, Μιχάλης Κωνσταντίνου; born 19 February 1978) is a Cypriot retired football striker. He played for the Cyprus national football team, and he is the all-time leading scorer with 32 goals in 85 appe ...
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Michael Owen
Michael James Owen (born 14 December 1979) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United and Stoke City, as well as for the England national team. Since r ...
*
Michael Ballack
Michael Ballack (; born 26 September 1976) is a German former professional footballer. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of the German national team. Ballack wore the number 13 shirt for every team he has played for, except 1. FC ...
*
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij (anglicised to Van Nistelrooy; born 1 July 1976) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player. He is currently the coach of PSV Eindhoven.
A former footballer, Van Nistelrooy is often consi ...
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Luís Figo
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Hakan Şükür
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*
Savo Milošević
Savo Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Саво Милошевић, ; born 2 September 1973) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player.
A former forward, he signed for English club Aston Villa after making a name for himself at Partiza ...
;5 goals
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Raman Vasilyuk
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Dimitar Berbatov
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Boško Balaban
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Club career Early career
Born in Rijeka, he started playing for local club HNK Rijeka and appear ...
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Pavel Nedvěd
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Alessandro Del Piero
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Patrick Kluivert
Patrick Stephan Kluivert (; born 1 July 1976) is a Dutch former football player, coach and sporting director. He played as a striker, most notably for AFC Ajax, FC Barcelona and the Netherlands national team.
He was part of Ajax's Golden Gen ...
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John Carew
John Alieu Carew (born 5 September 1979) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was capped 91 times, scoring 24 goals for the Norway national team.
As of 2023, he has been hired until the end of 2024 at Norw ...
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Radosław Kałużny
Radosław Kałużny (; born 2 February 1974) is a Polish former professional Association football, footballer.
Club career
Born in Góra, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Kałużny spent his first ten years in pro football in Poland. In 2001, he mov ...
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Marcus Allbäck
Marcus Christian Allbäck (; born 5 July 1973) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was known for his sharp finishing ability and represented clubs in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and Germ ...
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Alexander Frei
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He began his career at Basel, going on to various other clubs in Switzerla ...
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Mateja Kežman
Mateja Kežman ( sr-Cyrl, Матеја Кежман, ; born 12 April 1979) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Upon playing in his homeland, Kežman went on to play top-flight football in the Netherlands, Engla ...
;4 goals
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Andi Herzog
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Bob Peeters
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Jon Dahl Tomasson
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Mikael Forssell
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Forssell began his professional career in 1997 for HJK, having progressed through the team's youth teams, but he only remained at the club for a single season, mak ...
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Aleksandr Iashvili
Alexandr Iashvili ( ka, ალექსანდრე მამულის ძე იაშვილი; born 23 October 1977) is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
Early years
Born in Tbilisi, Ia ...
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Ian Harte
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He be ...
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Roy Keane
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David Healy
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Sérgio Conceição
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Throughout his career, he played for ...
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Marius Niculae
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Szilárd Németh
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After playing for clubs in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, he spent four-and-a-half seasons at Middlesbrough of the Premier League f ...
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Zlatko Zahovič
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After making a name for himself in Europe in Portugal, most notably with Porto and Benfica where he amassed Primeira ...
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Raúl
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Raul, Raúl or Raül may re ...
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John Hartson
;3 goals
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Arthur Petrosyan
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Michael Baur
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Alexander Khatskevich
Alyaksandr Khatskevich ( be, Аляксандр Хацкевіч, born 19 October 1973) is a Belarusian football manager and former player.
Playing career
Khatskevich is a former player of the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv.
He made 39 appearance ...
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Bart Goor
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Gert Verheyen
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In a 20-year professional career, he was mainly associated with Anderlecht and Club Brugge (especially the latter), scor ...
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Elvir Baljić
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As a player, Baljić's biggest success was winning the UEFA Champions League with Spanish giant Real Madrid in the 1999–2000 season. Apart from ...
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Sergej Barbarez
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Georgi Ivanov
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Ioannis Okkas
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Milan Baroš
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In 2005, he was part of the Liverpool team which won the UEFA Champions League. He went on to win Ligue ...
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Dennis Rommedahl
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David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham (; born 2 May 1975) is an English former professional footballer, the current president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City. Known for his range of passing, crossing ability and bending fr ...
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Andres Oper
Andres Oper (born 7 November 1977) is an Estonian football coach and former professional player. He is currently an assistant manager of Estonia national team.
Oper played as a forward for Lelle, Flora, Tervis Pärnu, AaB, Torpedo Moscow, ...
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Aki Riihilahti
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Marko Rehmer
Marko Rehmer (born 29 April 1972) is a German former professional footballer who played mainly as a right-back.
Club career
Rehmer was born in East Berlin. In his youth he played for hometown 1. FC Union Berlin; he arrived in the first divi ...
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Miklós Fehér
Miklós "Miki" Fehér (; 20 July 1979 – 25 January 2004) was a Hungarian professional footballer who played as a striker.
He spent most of his nine-year career in Portugal, representing four clubs and amassing Primeira Liga totals of 80 ga ...
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Ferenc Horváth
Ferenc Horváth (born 6 May 1973) is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is now a manager, most recently coaching at Budapest Honvéd FC.
He made his debut for the Hungary national team in 1996, and got 3 ...
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Eyjólfur Sverrisson
Eyjólfur Gjafar Sverrisson (born 3 August 1968) is an Icelandic former footballer and former coach of the Iceland national football team.
He is the father of Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson, also a professional footballer.
Football Playing career
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Matt Holland
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Holland began his career at West Ham United, having previously been with Arsenal's academy. During his time at West Ham spent time out on ...
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Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
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Born in Suriname, he and his family would later move to t ...
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Clarence Seedorf
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Seedorf is considered one of the most successful players in UE ...
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Mark Van Bommel
Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel (born 22 April 1977) is a Dutch football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the manager of Belgian side Royal Antwerp. His FIFA World Cup profile describes him as "a tackli ...
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Pierre Van Hooijdonk
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Marcin Żewłakow
Marcin Żewłakow () (born 22 April 1976) is a Polish football player.
Career
Żewłakow was born, in Warsaw. He played for clubs such as Polonia Warsaw, Beveren (Belgium), Excelsior Mouscron (Belgium), FC Metz (France) and AA Gent (Belgium) an ...
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João Vieira Pinto
João is the Portuguese equivalent of the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below.
Kings
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Yegor Titov
Yegor Ilyich Titov (; born 29 May 1976) is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder. He was a goal scoring midfielder who usually played in "the hole" between the midfield and attack, as an attacking midfielder. ...
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Billy Dodds
William Dodds (born 5 February 1969) is a Scottish football coach and former player who is the manager of Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
His playing career started with English club Chelsea and the rest of his career was spent in Scotland with ...
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Igor Demo
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Demo (born Igor Demo Fußballgott) was born and grew up in Nitra, and he started his professional career playing for the local t ...
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Milenko Ačimovič
Milenko "Mile" Ačimovič (; ; born 15 February 1977) is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Besides Slovenia, he has played in FR Yugoslavia, England, France, Saudi Arabia, and Austria.
Club career
Born to S ...
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Milan Osterc
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Fernando Hierro
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He won five L ...
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Gaizka Mendieta
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A versatile player, with good technique, offensive capabilities and tackling skills, who was capable of creating goals both ...
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Anders Svensson
Anders Gunnar Svensson (; born 17 July 1976) is a Swedish former professional footballer. He was a central midfielder, known for his passing, free kicks, and set piece-taking abilities, who usually operated in a playmaking role. He was capped ...
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Okan Buruk
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Alpay Özalan
Fehmi Alpay Özalan (born 29 May 1973) is a Turkish former professional footballer, football manager and politician. He last worked as the manager of Samsunspor. He played 90 international games for Turkey between 1995 and 2005, making him Turk ...
;2 goals
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Ildefons Lima
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Thomas Flögel
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Vadim Vasilyev
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Valentin Belkevich
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Mikalay Ryndzyuk
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Émile Mpenza
Eka Basunga Lokonda "Émile" Mpenza (born 4 July 1978) is a Belgian former footballer who played as a striker. He has been capped at international level by Belgium. His older brother, Mbo, also represented Belgium.
Club career Belgium, Germa ...
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Yves Vanderhaeghe
Yves Vanderhaeghe (; born 30 January 1970) is a Belgian football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. In February 2022 he became the manager of K.V. Oostende for a second time.
Known for his tackling, hard-working ap ...
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Krasimir Chomakov
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Martin Petrov
Martin Petyov Petrov ( bg, Мартин Петьов Петров; born 15 January 1979) is a Bulgarian former footballer who played as a winger.
Club career
Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa. After a few good seasons, he signed with CS ...
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Alen Bokšić
Alen Bokšić (; born 21 January 1970) is a former Croatian professional footballer. A forward who spent most of his career in France and Italy, he was renowned for his technique and power, and is regarded as one of the greatest players in the ...
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Robert Prosinečki
Robert Prosinečki (; born 12 January 1969) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
Early in his career, he was part of the Red Star Belgrade team that won three Yugoslav First League titles and ...
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Davor Vugrinec
Davor Vugrinec (born 24 March 1975) is a Croatian former professional footballer. He primarily played as a striker, but also operated as an attacking midfielder or a second striker. He is all-time top scorer of the Croatian First Football Leagu ...
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Marios Agathokleous
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Jan Koller
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He began his career at Sparta Prague, then moved to Belgium, where he becam ...
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Pavel Kuka
Pavel Kuka (born 19 July 1968) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Born in Prague, Kuka started and finished his career at Slavia Prague, playing with the club from 1989–93 and then from 2000–05. He has als ...
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Marek Jankulovski
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Vratislav Lokvenc
Vratislav Lokvenc (, born 27 September 1973) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a striker. After playing youth football for Náchod and Hradec Králové, he began his senior club career with the latter team. After moving to ...
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Tomáš Rosický
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He s ...
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Thomas Gravesen
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Gravesen played as a professional in Denmark, Germany, England, Spain and Scotland for Vejle Boldklub, Hamburger SV, Everton, Real M ...
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Paul Scholes
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Martin Reim
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Reim played as a central midfielder for Lõvid, Sport Tallinn, Norma, Flora, KTP and the Estonia national team. He is Estonia's most capped player ...
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Indrek Zelinski
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Jari Litmanen
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Litmanen is widely consider ...
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Temuri Ketsbaia
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Sebastian Deisler
Sebastian Toni Deisler (; born 5 January 1980) is a German former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder and attacking midfielder.
A Borussia Mönchengladbach youth product, he played one season with the club during which it ...
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Carsten Jancker
Carsten Jancker (born 28 August 1974) is a German football coach and former player who is the manager of Austrian club DSV Leoben. He played as a striker for various teams between 1993 and 2009, including FC Köln, Rapid Wien, FC Bayern Munic ...
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Miroslav Klose
Miroslav Josef Klose (, pl, Mirosław Józef Klose; born 9 June 1978 as Mirosław Marian Klose) is a German professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who is the head coach of Austrian Footb ...
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Angelos Charisteas
Angelos Charisteas ( el, Άγγελος Χαριστέας, ; born 9 February 1980) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward. He works as sporting director for Aris Thessaloniki.
At club level he played for Aris Thessa ...
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Attila Korsós
Attila Korsós (born 25 December 1971 in Győr) is a Hungarian former football player.
World Cup 2002 Qualifier
From 2000 to 2001, Attila Korsós participated in four World Cup qualifying matches for Hungary.
Career in NBII
In 2003, he left ...
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János Mátyus
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Vilmos Sebők
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Ríkharður Daðason
Ríkharður Daðason (born 26 April 1972) is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a striker for Fram Reykjavik, KR, Kalamata, Viking, Stoke City, Lillestrøm and Fredrikstad.
Education
Ríkharður graduated from Colu ...
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Þórður Guðjónsson
Þórður "Thordur" Gudjonsson (born 14 October 1973) is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or striker.
Club career
Þórður was born in Akranes started his career with local teams KA Akureyri and ÍA Ak ...
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Eiður Guðjohnsen
Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen (transliterated as Eidur Smari Gudjohnsen; born 15 September 1978) is an Icelandic professional football coach and former player who played as a forward. Eiður saw his greatest success in England and Spain with Chels ...
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Tryggvi Guðmundsson
Tryggvi Guðmundsson (born 30 July 1974) is an Icelandic former professional association football, footballer. He is Iceland's all-time top scorer in the Úrvalsdeild. He is the highest scoring male Icelandic footballer of all time in associati ...
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Richard Dunne
Richard Patrick Dunne (born 21 September 1979) is an Irish former footballer and current television pundit for BT Sport, who played as a defender. He made 431 Premier League appearances, including 253 for Manchester City.
Dunne began his prof ...
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Robbie Keane
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Kevin Kilbane
Kevin Daniel Kilbane (; born 1 February 1977) is a former professional footballer who played as a left winger or full back. Kilbane won 110 caps for the Republic of Ireland national team, fourth behind only Robbie Keane, Shay Given and John O ...
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Mark Kinsella
Mark Anthony Kinsella (born 12 August 1972) is an Irish football manager and former player, currently a coach at Drogheda United after previously being both the manager and assistant manager. He played as a central midfielder for most of his ...
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Jason McAteer
Jason Wynne McAteer (born 18 June 1971) is a former professional footballer. His primary position was in centre midfield, though he was also an able right winger and full-back.
During his professional career from 1992 to 2007, McAteer played ...
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Haim Revivo
Haim Michael Revivo ( he, חיים מיכאל רביבו; born 22 February 1972) is a retired Israeli football player who played as a midfielder, and a businessman.
Sports career
Revivo is Jewish and was born to a traditional Mizrahi Jewish fa ...
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Marco Delvecchio
Marco Delvecchio (; born 7 April 1973) is a retired Italian footballer, who played as a forward. Although he played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, he spent most of it at A.S. Roma, where he is still remembered by the club's f ...
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Francesco Totti
Francesco Totti (; born 27 September 1976) is an Italian former professional footballer who played solely for Roma and the Italy national team. He is often referred to as ''Er Bimbo de Oro'' (The Golden Boy), ''L'Ottavo Re di Roma'' (The Eig ...
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Marians Pahars
Marians Pahars (born 5 August 1976) is a Latvian professional football manager and a former player.
As a player, he spent the majority of his career operating as a striker for English club Southampton, where he played in the Premier League an ...
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Gjorgji Hristov
Georgi Hristov (Macedonian language, Macedonian: Ѓорѓи Христов, also Romanization of Macedonian, romanized as ''Gjorgji Hristov''; born 30 January 1976) is a Macedonian former professional association football, footballer who played a ...
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Artim Šakiri
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Serghei Cleşcenco Serghei is a Romanian-language male given name:
* Serghei Alexeev
* Serghei Cleșcenco
* Serghei Covalciuc
*Serghei Covaliov
* Serghei Donico-Iordăchescu
* Serghei Dubrovin
* Serghei Gafina
* Serghei Gheorghiev
* Serghei Lașcencov
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Marc Overmars
Marc Overmars (; born 29 March 1973) is a Dutch former professional footballer and director of football at Belgian Pro League side Royal Antwerp FC. He was previously director of football at Ajax. During his football career, he played as a win ...
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Philip Mulryne
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Bård Borgersen
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Ole Gunnar Solskjær (; born 26 February 1973) is a Norwegian professional football manager and former player who played as a forward who last managed Premier League club Manchester United. As a player, Solskjær spent the majority of his car ...
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Bartosz Karwan
Bartosz Karwan (born 13 January 1976) is a Polish former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Karwan was born in Tychy.
He spent two seasons in the Bundesliga with Hertha BSC.
In September 2010, he joined GKS Katowice. He was r ...
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Paweł Kryszałowicz
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Pedro Barbosa
Pedro Alexandre dos Santos Barbosa (born 6 August 1970; ) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Best known for his spell at Sporting, he appeared in 367 matches in the Primeira Liga and score ...
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Cosmin Contra
Cosmin Marius Contra (; born 15 December 1975) is a Romanian football manager and former player.
Primarily an attacking-minded right-back, he was also deployed as a midfielder. He played professionally in three countries his own notwithstanding, ...
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Adrian Ilie
Bucurel Adrian “The Cobra” Ilie (born 20 April 1974) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
He represented the Romania national team in one World Cup and two European Championships.
Club career
Ilie began h ...
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Dmitri Khokhlov
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Andy Selva
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Colin Hendry
Edward Colin James Hendry (born 7 December 1965) is a Scottish football coach and former professional footballer.
Hendry, who played as a defender notably played in the Premier League for Blackburn Rovers where he was part of the title winning ...
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Peter Németh
Peter Németh (born 14 September 1972) is a retired Slovak football player and manager.
Németh played for several top Slovak clubs during his career, including Inter Bratislava and MŠK Žilina. He also spent one season playing for Czech team ...
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Nastja Čeh
Nastja Čeh (born 26 January 1978) is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Čeh started his career with his hometown club Drava Ptuj. By the age of 17 he was playing in the first team in the 2. SN ...
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Željko Milinovič
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Gerard López
Gerard López Segú (; born 12 March 1979), usually known as just Gerard, is a Spanish former professional footballer, and a manager. An all-around midfielder, he was known for precision passes and ball control skills. During his career, he pla ...
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Fernando Morientes
Fernando Morientes Sánchez (; born 5 April 1976) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker, currently a manager.
He played for a number of clubs during his career, including Real Madrid, Monaco, Liverpool and Valenci ...
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Diego Tristán
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Stéphane Chapuisat
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Arif Erdem
Arif Erdem (born 2 January 1972) is a Turkish retired football manager and former professional player who played in the forward position. Starting out with local club Zeytinburnuspor in 1990, Erdem had a decorated 15-year professional career. ...
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Andriy Vorobei
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Hennadiy Zubov
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Nathan Blake
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Slaviša Jokanović
Slaviša Jokanović ( sr-Cyrl, Славиша Јокановић, ; born 16 August 1968) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player. He is the manager of Russian club Dynamo Moscow.
A physical player considered strong in the a ...
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Siniša Mihajlović
Siniša Mihajlović ( sr-Cyrl, Синиша Михајловић, ; 20 February 1969 – 16 December 2022) was a Serbian professional football player and manager.
During his career as a footballer, he played as a defender or midfielder. He won ...
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Predrag Mijatović
Predrag "Peđa" Mijatović ( sr-Cyrl, Предраг Мијатовић, ; born 19 January 1969) is a Montenegrin retired professional footballer who played as a striker. At club level, Mijatović played for six clubs: Budućnost, Partizan, Va ...
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Dejan Stanković
Dejan Stanković ( sr-Cyrl, Дејан Станковић, , born 11 September 1978) is a Serbian professional manager and former player. He currently manages Italian club Sampdoria.
He captained the Serbia national team from 2007 until 201 ...
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Alban Bushi
Alban Bushi (born 20 August 1973) is an Albanian professional football coach and former player who is the current manager of Albania under-21 and under-20 team. He is nicknamed "Loku".
During his playing career he played as a striker. Bushi ...
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Ervin Fakaj
Ervin Pëllumb Fakaj (born 15 June 1976) is an Albanian retired professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He made 25 appearances and scored one goal for the Albania national team.
Club career
Born in Vlorë, Fakaj had spells in Spa ...
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Bledar Kola
Bledar Kola (born 1 August 1972) is an Albanian retired football player and later manager.
Early life
Kola comes from Mirditë, but grew up in the city of Lezhë. He was an exemplary student. He started his career at Besëlidhja Lezhë, and ...
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Edvin Murati
Edvin Murati (born 12 November 1975) is an Albanian former professional footballer. He played for Panserraikos FC and Iraklis F.C. in Greece. He played also in France, Germany, and for the Albania national football team. In December 2018 he was ...
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Altin Rraklli
Altin Rraklli (born 17 July 1970) is an Albanian football coach and former player who played as a forward.
Most of his professional career was spent in Germany, where he played for five clubs in both major levels of football, mainly SC Freib ...
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Emiliano González Arqués
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Roberto Jonas
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Justo Ruiz
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Hayk Hakobyan
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Felix Khojoyan
Felix Khojoyan ( hy, Ֆելիքս Ալբերտի Խոջոյան, born on 22 December 1974), is an Armenian football manager and former footballer who mainly played as defender throughout his career.
Khojoyan was a member of the Armenia nation ...
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Artak Minasyan
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Andrey Movsisyan
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Eduard Glieder
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Fərrux İsmayılov
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Zaur Tağızadə
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Walter Baseggio
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Jurgen Cavens
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Wesley Sonck
Wesley Sonck (born 9 August 1978) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who manages the Belgium U19 national team. He played as a striker for Molenbeek, Germinal Ekeren, Germinal Beerschot, Genk, Ajax, Borussia Mönch ...
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Daniel Van Buyten
Daniel Van Buyten (; born 7 February 1978) is a Belgian former footballer who played as a centre back. Nicknamed "Big Dan", Van Buyten was known for his uncompromising style of play, exploiting both his physical strength and aerial ability.
Begi ...
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Nico Van Kerckhoven
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Bruno Akrapović
Bruno Akrapović (born 26 September 1967) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Starting his career in his native Bosnia, at the time part of Yugoslavia, Akrapović spent the ma ...
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Mirsad Bešlija
Mirsad Bešlija (born 6 July 1979) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer who played as a right winger.
He has most notably played for Željezničar, Genk, Heart of Midlothian and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.
Club career
B ...
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Marijo Dodik
Marijo Dodik (born 18 February 1974 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian retired football striker.
Club career
Dodik started his career at Željezničar Sarajevo before leaving war-torn Bosnia and being picked up by the Belgian side Mechelen in 1995, w ...
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Almedin Hota
Almedin Hota (born 22 July 1976 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer. He still plays amateur football and futsal, in Klagenfurt though.
International career
He made his debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a May 1998 friendly ...
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Muhamed Konjić
Muhamed Konjić (; born 14 May 1970) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer who played as a centre-back, most notably for Monaco, Coventry City and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team who he also captained.
Club career
A solid def ...
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Nermin Šabić
Nermin Šabić (born 21 December 1973) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.
Club career
Born in Zenica
Zenica ( ; ; ) is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and an administrative and economic center of the Federation ...
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Krasimir Balakov
Krasimir Genchev Balakov ( bg, Красимир Генчев Балъков, ; born 29 March 1966) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player who last served as the head coach of Bulgarian club CSKA 1948. A former attacking ...
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Svetoslav Todorov
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Niko Kovač
Niko Kovač (; born 15 October 1971) is a Croatian professional football coach and former player. He is currently the manager of Bundesliga club VFL Wolfsburg.
Kovač was the long-standing captain of the Croatia national team until his retire ...
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Zvonimir Soldo
Zvonimir Soldo (born 2 November 1967) is a Croatian football manager and a former player. During his playing career, he mostly played as defensive midfielder.
Club career
Early career
After studying law for six semesters at the University of Za ...
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Davor Šuker
Davor Šuker (; born 1 January 1968) is a Croatian football administrator and former footballer who played as a striker. He served as president of the Croatian Football Federation from 2012 to 2021. He began his footballing career in his hometo ...
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Goran Vlaović
Goran Vlaović (born 7 August 1972) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
Born in Nova Gradiška, Vlaović started his professional career with Osijek in 1989 and moved to HAŠK Građanski in 1992, before goi ...
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Marios Christodoulou
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Milenko Špoljarić
Milenko Špoljarić (; born 24 January 1967) is a football manager and a former Cypriot international football midfielder.
Club career
Born in Belišće, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, Špoljarić played for Yugoslav First League clubs NK Osijek ...
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Karel Poborský
Karel Poborský (; born 30 March 1972) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a right winger. He was most noted for his technical ability and pace.
He began and finished his club career at Dynamo České Budějovice, where his k ...
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Roman Týce
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Morten Bisgaard
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Jan Heintze
Jan Heintze (born 17 August 1963) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a left-sided defensive midfielder and defender. He ended his career in the Netherlands with PSV Eindhoven, where he was a part of the PSV team which won ...
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Claus Jensen
Claus William Jensen (born 29 April 1977) is a Danish professional football manager, and former player who is the manager of Danish 1st Division club Nykøbing FC. During his active playing career, he played as an attacking midfielder. Jensen ...
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Jan Michaelsen
Jan Munk Michaelsen (born 28 November 1970) is a former Danish footballer and currently is the head of coaching at Nykøbing FC. He made 20 international appearances, scored one goal for the Danish national team. He is the son of former Danish ...
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Andy Cole
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Robbie Fowler
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Steven Gerrard
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Emile Heskey
Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey (born 11 January 1978) is an English former professional footballer who currently serves as head of football development of Leicester City Women. Playing as a striker, he made more than 500 appearances in the Foo ...
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Teddy Sheringham
Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham, MBE (born 2 April 1966) is an English football manager and former player. He played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career.
Sheringham began his career at Millwall, where ...
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Marko Kristal
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Jevgeni Novikov
Jevgeni Novikov (born 28 June 1980) is a Estonian former professional international footballer. He played the position of central and defensive midfielder.
Club career
Novikov started his career in Narva Trans. In 2001, he joined FC Flora Tall ...
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Raio Piiroja
Raio Piiroja (born 11 July 1979) is an Estonian former professional footballer. He played as a centre-back for Pärnu/Kalev, Lelle, Flora, Vålerenga, Fredrikstad, Vitesse and Chengdu Blades.
Piiroja made his international debut for the Eston ...
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Uni Arge
Uni or UNI may refer to:
Entertainment
*Uni Records, a division of MCA, formally called Universal City Records
*"U.N.I.", a song by Ed Sheeran from ''+'' (''Plus'')
*Uni, a species in the Neopets Trading Card Game
*Uni, a character in the anime ...
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Jens Kristian Hansen
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Øssur Hansen
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Christian Høgni Jacobsen
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Kurt Mørkøre
Kurt Mørkøre (born 20 February 1969) is a former Faroese football midfielder or striker who is currently manager of the Norwegian club Averøykameratene. He is the elder brother of fellow Faroese international Allan Mørkøre. He is a bake ...
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John Petersen
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Joonas Kolkka
Joonas Einari Kolkka (born 28 September 1974) is a Finnish retired professional footballer who played as a left winger most of his career, but could also play on the right wing. Having started his career in his native Finland, he went on to play ...
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Shefki Kuqi
Shefki Kuqi (pronounced ; born 10 November 1976) is a Finnish former professional footballer who played predominantly as a striker.
He spent most of his career in the English football league system, for clubs including Newcastle United, Shef ...
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Teemu Tainio
Teemu Mikael Tainio (born 27 November 1979) is a Finnish football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of FC Haka.
Tainio began his career with his local club, TP-47, before moving to FC Haka in 1996. A year later, he moved to ...
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Archil Arveladze
Archil Arveladze ( ka, არჩილ არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a striker for various sides in Europe.
Club career
Born in Tbilisi, Arveladze spent his youth ca ...
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Shota Arveladze
Shota Arveladze ( ka, შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of EFL Championship club Hull City.
Arveladze played at Dinamo T ...
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Giorgi Gakhokidze
Giorgi Gakhokidze ( ka, გიორგი გახოკიძე; born 5 November 1975) is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward for PSV Eindhoven, Maccabi Haifa, FC Twente and Metalurh Donetsk among ...
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Gocha Jamarauli
Gocha Jamarauli ( ka, გოჩა ჯამარაული; born 23 July 1971) is a Georgian former professional football midfielder.
He collected 62 caps and as of 2008 is the fourth most capped player in Georgia.
Club career
His club ca ...
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Georgi Kinkladze
Georgi Kinkladze ( ka, გიორგი ქინქლაძე, ; born 6 July 1973), also spelled Georgiou, or Giorgi, or shortened to Gio, is a Georgian former footballer who played as a playmaking midfielder.
Born in the Georgian capital ...
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Levan Kobiashvili
Levan Kobiashvili ( ka, ლევან კობიაშვილი, born 10 July 1977) is a Georgian former professional footballer and the current president of the Georgian Football Federation and a member of Parliament of Georgia.
He pla ...
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Marco Bode
Marco Bode (born 23 July 1969) is a German former professional Association football, footballer. A list of one-club men in association football, one club man, Bode spent his entire professional career at SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen. He played ...
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Dietmar Hamann
Dietmar Johann Wolfgang "Didi" Hamann (; born 27 August 1973) is a German professional football coach, former player and media personality.
Throughout his career, he has played for Bayern Munich, Newcastle United, Liverpool and Manchester City ...
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Oliver Neuville
Oliver Patric Neuville (, born 1 May 1973) is a German former footballer who played as a striker.
During an 18-year professional career he played mainly for Bayer Leverkusen (five seasons) and Borussia Mönchengladbach (six), amassing Bundeslig ...
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Mehmet Scholl
Mehmet Tobias Scholl (born Mehmet Tobias Yüksel; 16 October 1970) is a German football manager and former player.
He played most of his career as an attacking midfielder for Bayern Munich. During his career he won the UEFA Cup in 1996 (scoring ...
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Georgios Georgiadis
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Georgios Karagounis
Georgios Karagkounis ( el, Γεώργιος Καραγκούνης; born 6 March 1977), known as Giorgos Karagounis ( el, Γιώργος Καραγκούνης), is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
In his clu ...
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Nikos Liberopoulos
Nikolaos "Nikos" Liberopoulos ( el, Νίκος Λυμπερόπουλος; born on 4 August 1975) is a retired Greek former professional international footballer who played as a forward. He is famous for his aim-to-goal shot, his innate in-pla ...
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Nikos Machlas
Nikos Machlas ( el, Νίκος Μαχλάς, born 16 June 1973) is a retired Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Club career OFI Crete
Machlas began his career with OFI Crete, where he made his debut in February 1991 ...
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Themistoklis Nikolaidis
Themistoklis "Demis" Nikolaidis ( el, Ντέμης Νικολαΐδης; born 17 September 1973) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was the forty second president of AEK Athens, and is considered one of the fi ...
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Béla Illés
Béla Illés (; born 27 April 1968 in Sárvár, Hungary) is a retired Hungarian football player who has spent most of his career playing for MTK Hungária FC. He is considered to be the greatest Hungarian footballer of the 1990s.
He was only ...
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Krisztián Lisztes Krisztián Lisztes may refer to:
* Krisztián Lisztes (footballer, born 1976), Hungarian football midfielder
* Krisztián Lisztes (footballer, born 2005), Hungarian football midfielder and son of the above
{{hndis, Lisztes, Krisztian ...
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Hermann Hreidarsson
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Helgi Sigurðsson
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Andri Sigþórsson
Andri Sigþórsson (born 25 March 1977) is an Icelandic former international footballer.
Career
Andri, who played as a striker, played as a youth for KR, before joining the youth setup of Bayern Munich. He played for Bayern's reserve team in ...
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Gary Breen
Gary Patrick Breen (born 12 December 1973) is a former footballer who made more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League. A centre back, played for numerous clubs over a 20-year career, including more than 100 appearances ...
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David Connolly
David James Connolly (born 6 June 1977) is a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for various clubs including Feyenoord and Excelsior in the Netherlands as well as Wigan Athletic and Sunderland in the Premier Le ...
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Gary Kelly
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Niall Quinn
Niall John Quinn (honorary MBE; born 6 October 1966) is an Irish former professional footballer, manager, businessman and sports television pundit.
As a player he was a striker who played top flight football for Arsenal, Manchester City and S ...
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Yossi Abuksis
Yosef "Yossi" Abukasis ( he, יֹוסֶף "יֹוסִי" אָבּוּקָסִיס; born September 10, 1970) is an Israeli former football midfielder and current coach of Beitar Jerusalem.
Career
Abukasis played in the youth team of Hapoel Tel A ...
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Pini Balili
Pini Balili ( he, פִּינִי בַּלִילִי; born 18 June 1979) is an Israeli former football manager and former player. He was born in Jerusalem and is Jewish, of Turkish descent.
Career
Move back to Hapoel
As a youngster, Balili grew ...
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Eyal Berkovic
Eyal Berkovic (or Berkovich, he, אייל ברקוביץ'; born 2 April 1972) is an Israeli former professional association footballer, football coach, team owner and television talk show presenter.
As a player he was an attacking midfielde ...
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Shimon Gershon
Shimon Gershon ( he, שמעון גרשון; born October 6, 1977) is a retired Israeli national footballer and central defender. For nearly 10 years, Gershon was the captain of the Israeli football team Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hapoel Tel Aviv ( he, הפ ...
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Yaniv Katan
Yaniv Katan ( he, יניב קטן; born 27 January 1981) is a retired Israeli international footballer who played professionally for Maccabi Haifa, as a forward and winger. He earned 31 caps for Israel, scoring five goals.
Personal life
Katan ...
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Alon Mizrahi
Alon Mizrahi ( he, אלון מזרחי; born 22 November 1971) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played for clubs including Nice, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem.
His ni ...
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Avi Nimni
Avi Nimni ( he, אבי נמני; born 26 April 1972) is a former Israeli football player and Maccabi Tel Aviv's highest ever scorer. He is regarded as one of Maccabi Tel Aviv's greatest players ever. Until 2006, he served as the captain of the ...
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Idan Tal
Idan Tal ( he, עידן טל; born 13 September 1975, in Beersheba) is a former Israeli professional footballer.
Tal was born in Beersheba, Israel, and is Jewish. He lives in Haifa, is married to Doreen, and has two children, Miron and Amit.
Cl ...
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Aleksandrs Jeļisejevs
Aleksandrs Jelisejevs (born 11 August 1971) is a Latvian football coach and a former international striker. He is the manager of the Latvia national under-16 team. He obtained a total number of 37 caps for the Latvia national football team, sc ...
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Andrejs Rubins
Andrejs Rubins (26 November 1978 – 1 August 2022) was a Latvian professional footballer who played as a left midfielder. He was a member of the Latvia national team. Rubins worked as a football manager.
Club career
Born in Riga, Rubins start ...
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Andrejs Štolcers
Andrejs Štolcers (born 8 July 1974) is a Latvian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Club career
Born in Riga, Latvia, Štolcers started his career for Olimpija Rīga. He played there for two years from 19 ...
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Orestas Buitkus
Orestas Buitkus (born 11 April 1975 in Klaipėda) is a Lithuanian professional footballer. A midfielder, he stands 1.76 m tall and weighs 74 kg.
As of May 2006 Buitkus has scored 6 goals in 29 appearances for the Lithuanian national team ...
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Artūras Fomenka
Artūras Fomenka (born 14 February 1977) is a Lithuanian professional footballer. He last played for Uzbek League club, FC Shurtan Guzar.
Career
He played two games in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2000 for FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don. From 2008 to ...
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Tomas Ražanauskas
Tomas Ražanauskas (born 7 January 1976) is a Lithuanian professional football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with the Lithuania national team.
He played in the position of midfielder and was also a member of the Lithuan ...
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Marcel Christophe
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René Peters
René Peters (born 15 June 1981) is a former Luxembourgish football (soccer), football player who currently manages US Hostert. He was captain of the Luxembourg national football team, national team during his playing days.
Club career
Peters w ...
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Sacha Schneider
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Jeff Strasser
Jeff Strasser (born 5 October 1974) is a Luxembourgish former professional football player and the current manager of Progrès Niederkorn.
Club career
As one of the rare successful professional footballers from Luxembourg, Strasser has made a ...
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Argjend Beqiri
Argjend Beqiri ( mk, Арѓенд Беќири, ''Arǵend Beḱiri'', sq, Argjend Beqiri; born 3 April 1974) is a Macedonian football manager and former player who most recently managed Ferizaj. A striker, he was capped 17 times for the Maced ...
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Mile Krstev
Milorad 'Mile' Krstev (born 13 May 1979) is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented the Macedonia national team internationally.
International career
Krstev made his senior debut for Republic of M ...
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Toni Micevski
Toni Micevski ( mk, Тони Мицевски; born 20 January 1970) is a North Macedonia former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Micevski was born in Bitola, SFR Yugoslavia. He went on to spend a large part of ...
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Dragan Načevski
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Igor Nikolovski
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Žarko Serafimovski
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Vančo Trajanov
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Gilbert Agius
Gilbert Agius (born 21 February 1974) is a former professional Maltese footballer, currently head coach of Malta national under-21 football team.
Playing career
Agius was the captain of his hometown club side Valletta F.C. and is one of the mo ...
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David Carabott
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George Mallia
George Mallia (born 10 October 1978 in Sliema, Malta) is a retired professional footballer who last played for Maltese Premier League side Qormi FC as a midfielder.
Playing career
George made his debut with Sliema Wanderers in the Maltese Premie ...
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Michael Mifsud
Michael Mifsud (born 17 April 1981) is a Maltese professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Maltese Premier League side Mosta F.C., Mosta. He scored 42 goals in 143 games for the Malta ...
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Ruslan Barburoş
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Serghei Covalciuc
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Serghei Pogreban
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Radu Rebeja
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Phillip Cocu
Phillip John-William Cocu (born 29 October 1970) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player, he is the manager of Vitesse.
Cocu was born in Eindhoven but raised in Zevenaar, playing youth football for local clubs DCS and De Gra ...
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Jeffrey Talan
Jeffrey Dennis Talan (born 29 September 1971) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player who is the assistant coach of Almere City. He gained 8 caps for the Netherlands national football team, in which he scored once.
Club career ...
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Giovanni van Bronckhorst
Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst (born 5 February 1975) is a Dutch football manager and former player, who was most recently the manager of Scottish Premiership club Rangers. Formerly a midfielder, he moved to left-back later in his career. ...
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Boudewijn Zenden
Boudewijn Zenden (; born 15 August 1976) also known by his nickname "Bolo", is a Dutch former footballer who played as a left winger or as an attacking midfielder.
Named the 1997 Dutch Football Talent of the Year, Zenden played for four teams in ...
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Stuart Elliott
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Phil Gray
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Michael Hughes
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George McCartney
George McCartney (born 29 April 1981) is a Northern Irish former footballer who is currently a coach at Linfield. He began his career at Sunderland in 1998 before having two spells each with West Ham United and Leeds United. He won the 2004–0 ...
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Mark Williams
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Thorstein Helstad
Thorstein Helstad (born 28 April 1977) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Helstad was born in Hamar, and started his career in his local club FL Fart where he at age 16 scored two goals against Løt ...
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Frode Johnsen
Frode Johnsen (born 17 March 1974) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played for Odd and Rosenborg in the Tippeligaen and for Nagoya Grampus and Shimizu S-Pulse in Japan. He played in several positions, but was preferred as a ...
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Ronny Johnsen
Jean Ronny Johnsen (born 10 June 1969) is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder.
Johnsen played club football in Norway, Turkey, and England for Sem, Stokke, Eik-Tønsberg, Lyn, Lillestrøm, Beşikt ...
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Michał Żewłakow
Michał Ryszard Żewłakow (; born 22 April 1976) is a Polish former footballer who played as a defender. He captained the Poland national team and is its third most capped player ever. Besides Poland, he has played in Belgium, Greece, and Turk ...
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Rui Jorge
Rui Jorge de Sousa Dias Macedo de Oliveira (born 27 March 1973), known as Rui Jorge, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a left-back, currently manager of the Portugal national under-21 team.
In a 15-year professional career he ...
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Rui Costa
Rui Manuel César Costa (; born 29 March 1972) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who is the 34th president of sports club S.L. Benfica. He also succeeded Luís Filipe Vieira as president of the club's SAD board of directors.
...
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Ricardo Sá Pinto
Ricardo Manuel Andrade e Silva Sá Pinto (born 10 October 1972) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a forward, currently manager of Persian Gulf Pro League club Esteghlal.
He was known for his fighting spirit, best displayed in hi ...
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Ioan Ganea
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Viorel Moldovan
Viorel Dinu Moldovan (born 8 July 1972) is a Romanian former professional football forward and currently a manager. He was an important player for the Romanian national team in the 1990s.
Career
Moldovan was born in Bistrița.
At club level, ...
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Cătălin Munteanu
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Gheorghe Popescu
Gheorghe "Gică" Popescu (; born 9 October 1967) is a Romanian former professional football who played as a defender.
He notably played in La Liga where he is a former captain of FC Barcelona. He played for a string of European clubs in tha ...
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Dmitri Alenichev
Dmitri Anatolyevich Alenichev (russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Аленичев; born 20 October 1972) is a Russian football coach, former player and politician.
Club career
Despite being a Spartak Moscow fan, Alenichev debuted ...
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Maksim Buznikin
Maksim Buznikin (born 1 March 1977) is former Russia international forward or attacking midfielder. Buznikin spent his prime years playing for Spartak Moscow and Lokomotiv Moscow. In 2005 Buznikin was chosen Rostov's footballer of the year.
H ...
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Yuri Kovtun
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Aleksandr Mostovoi
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Mostovoi (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Мостово́й ; born 22 August 1968) is a Russian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Known as ''O Zar de ...
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Sergei Semak
Sergei Bogdanovich Semak (russian: Серге́й Богда́нович Сема́к ; uk, Сергій Богданович Семак; born 27 February 1976) is a Russian football manager and a former international midfielder who currently ...
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Aleksandr Shirko
Aleksandr Petrovich Shirko (russian: Александр Петрович Ширко; born 24 November 1976) is a Russian football scout and a former player. He works as a scout of FC Khimki.
Playing career
Shirko started his professional care ...
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Nicola Albani
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Colin Cameron
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Matt Elliott
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Dougie Freedman
Douglas Alan Freedman (born 25 May 1974) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. He is the current sporting director of Crystal Palace.
Freedman played as a striker, primarily for Crystal Palace and also had spells as ...
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Kevin Gallacher
Kevin William Gallacher (born 23 November 1966) is a Scottish former professional footballer and football pundit and co-commentator.
He played as a forward from 1983 until 2002, notably in the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers where he was ...
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Don Hutchison
Donald Hutchison (born 9 May 1971) is a former professional footballer. Hutchison is a football television pundit and commentator for Talksport and ESPN FC.
As a player, Hutchison was a midfielder, who played in the Premier League for Liverpoo ...
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Neil McCann
Neil Doherty McCann (born 11 August 1974) is a Scottish football manager, pundit and former professional player who played as a left winger. His most recent role in football was a stint as the caretaker manager of Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
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David Weir
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Peter Dzúrik
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Ľubomír Meszároš
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Tomáš Oravec
Tomáš Oravec (; born 3 July 1980) is a Slovakia, Slovak former Association football, football Forward (association football), forward who last played for SC Marchtrenk in the Austrian Landesliga.
Oravec became the Corgoň Liga top-scorer in 2 ...
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Attila Pinte
Attila Pinte (born 6 June 1971) is a former Slovak football player of Hungarian ethnicity who currently cooperating as an assistant manager for ŠK SFM Senec.
Pinte played in Slovakia most notably for DAC Dunajská Streda and Inter Bratislava ...
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Ľubomír Reiter
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Róbert Tomaschek
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Sebastjan Cimirotič
Sebastjan Cimirotič (born 14 September 1974) is a retired Slovenian football player.
He played for the Slovenia national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, scoring the nation's first ever World Cup goal.
Internatio ...
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Aleksander Knavs
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Mladen Rudonja
Mladen Rudonja () (born 26 July 1971) is a retired Slovenian footballer. He most often played as a winger (usually on the left) or striker. Despite this, he did not score a goal for the Slovenian national team until his 53rd cap – in the seco ...
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Ermin Šiljak
Ermin Šiljak (born 11 May 1973) is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a centre forward.
Managerial career
Early career
Šiljak managed Slovenian under-16 and under-19 national teams.
In 2012, he was a manager of Olim ...
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Senad Tiganj
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Sašo Udovič
Sašo Udovič (born 12 December 1968) is a Slovenian former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward for Hajduk Split, KSK Beveren, FC Lausanne-Sport, Lausanne, and LASK. He made 42 a ...
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Rubén Baraja
Rubén Baraja Vegas (; born 11 July 1975) is a Spanish retired footballer, currently manager of Valencia.
A complete central midfielder with good tackling, technique, and offensive qualities, together with accurate passing and goalscoring abili ...
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Joseba Etxeberria
Joseba Andoni Etxeberria Lizardi (born 5 September 1977) is a Spanish retired footballer who played mostly as a winger, currently manager of CD Mirandés.
After starting his professional career at the age of 17 with Real Sociedad, he quickly s ...
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Iván Helguera
Iván Helguera Bujía (; born 28 March 1975) is a Spanish former professional footballer.
Playing as either a central defender or defensive midfielder, with both good defensive and offensive skills, he represented five clubs during his professi ...
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Javi Moreno
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Miguel Ángel Nadal
Miguel Ángel Nadal Homar (, ca, Miquel Àngel Nadal Homar; born 28 July 1966) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a versatile defender and midfielder.
He began and ended his career with Mallorca, but his greatest achievements cam ...
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Niclas Alexandersson
Jens Niclas Alexandersson (born 29 December 1971) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a right winger and right back.
Beginning his career with Halmstads BK in 1989, he went on to represent IFK Göteborg, Sheffield Wednesday ...
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Andreas Andersson
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Patrik Andersson
Patrik Jonas Andersson (; born 18 August 1971) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Starting off his career with Malmö FF in the late 1980s, he went on to play professionally in England, Germany, and Spain, an ...
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Zlatan Ibrahimović
Zlatan Ibrahimović (, ; born 3 October 1981) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for club AC Milan and the Sweden national team. Ibrahimović is renowned for his acrobatic strikes and volleys, powerful long-range sho ...
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Sébastien Fournier
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Johann Lonfat
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Hakan Yakin
Hakan Yakin ( tr, Hakan Yakın; born 22 February 1977) is a Swiss football coach and a former player who played as a forward or midfielder. He is the manager of Schaffhausen. He was a member of the Swiss national team for eleven years.
Early ...
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Marco Zwyssig
Marco Zwyssig (born 24 October 1971) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is best remembered for his time at FC St. Gallen and FC Basel. He also played for the Switzerland national football team. Following ...
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Emre Aşık
Emre Aşık (born 13 December 1973) is a Turkish former international footballer. He played centre-back for several clubs in the Turkish Süper Lig, most notably, Galatasaray. Aşık began his career with Sönmez Filamentspor in the TFF Third Le ...
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Yıldıray Baştürk
Yıldıray Baştürk (, born 24 December 1978) is a retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Born in Germany, he was capped 49 times for the Turkey national football team, representing the team at the 2002 FIFA Wor ...
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Emre Belözoğlu
Emre Belözoğlu (, born 7 September 1980) is a Turkish former professional footballer and manager who is currently serving as the manager of İstanbul Başakşehir. During his playing career, he played as a midfielder. He was named in the FIFA ...
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Ümit Davala
Ümit Aydın Davala (born 30 July 1973) is a Turkish football coach and former player. During his stint at Galatasaray, he won four Süper Lig, three Turkish Cup, one UEFA Cup and one UEFA Super Cup title between 1996 and 2001. He won the 2003 ...
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Oktay Derelioğlu
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Tayfur Havutçu
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Nihat Kahveci
Nihat Kahveci (born 23 November 1979), better known mononymously as Nihat, is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He works as a football commentator for TRT. He has a UEFA Pro Licence.
Biography
Like most Turkish ...
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Tayfun Korkut
Tayfun Korkut (; born 2 April 1974) is a football manager and former player. He was most recently the head coach of Hertha BSC. Born in Germany, he represented the Turkey national team internationally.
International career
Korkut earned 42 cap ...
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İlhan Mansız
İlhan Mansız (born 10 August 1975) is a German-born Turkish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is also a competing figure skater. He is of Crimean Tatar descent.
Playing career Club career
Mansız gained internation ...
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Andriy Husin
Andriy Leonidovych Husin ( ua, Андрій Леонідович Гусін; 11 December 1972 – 17 September 2014) was a Ukrainian professional football player and coach. He played in the Ukraine national team, and was one of Ukraine's most ...
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Craig Bellamy
Craig Douglas Bellamy (born 13 July 1979) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward and is current assistant manager at EFL Championship side Burnley. Born in Cardiff, Bellamy began his senior playing career with Norw ...
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Mark Pembridge
Mark Anthony Pembridge (born 29 November 1970) is a Welsh retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and a current coach at the academy for Fulham.
He played 333 matches in England's top division for Luton Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Evert ...
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Robbie Savage
Robert William Savage (born 18 October 1974) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, now a football pundit and director of football at club Macclesfield.
During his career he played predominantly as a midfielder, ...
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Gary Speed
Gary Andrew Speed (8 September 1969 – 27 November 2011) was a Welsh professional footballer and manager. As manager of Wales, Speed is often credited as being the catalyst for the change in fortunes of the national team and as setting t ...
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Predrag Đorđević
Predrag Đorđević ( sr-cyr, Предраг Ђорђевић; also transliterated Predrag Djordjević; born 4 August 1972) is a Serbian former professional footballer.
Known for his set pieces, Đorđević played as a left midfielder for Gree ...
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Miroslav Đukić
Miroslav Đukić ( sr-cyr, Мирослав Ђукић, ; born 19 February 1966) is a Serbian former footballer who played as a sweeper, and a manager.
He spent 14 years of his professional career in Spain, notably at the service of Deportivo ...
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Mladen Krstajić
Mladen Krstajić ( sr-cyr, Младен Крстајић, ; born 4 March 1974) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back.
He represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. From Janua ...
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Michael Baur (playing against
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Raio Piiroja
Raio Piiroja (born 11 July 1979) is an Estonian former professional footballer. He played as a centre-back for Pärnu/Kalev, Lelle, Flora, Vålerenga, Fredrikstad, Vitesse and Chengdu Blades.
Piiroja made his international debut for the Eston ...
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Mihails Zemļinskis
Mihails Zemļinskis ( uk, Михайло Валерійович Землинський; born 21 December 1969) is a Latvian politician and former professional footballer. He played as a centre-back or sweeper, making over 100 appearances for t ...
(playing against
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Goran Stavrevski
Goran Stavrevski ( mk, Горан Ставревски; born 2 January 1974 in Poeševo, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian football defender who despite his age is still active by playing for FK Poeševo in the OFL Bitola, Macedonia's fourth t ...
(playing against
Slovakia
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Igor Mitreski (playing against
Turkey
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