Football Fatties: Archive

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Happy Birthday Chilavert

Happy Birthday to Jose Luis Chilavert who has turned 47 today. Unfortunately his birthday has been overlooked due to some other events going on in the world but he should not be forgotten! The former Paraguay goalkeeper was named world keeper of the year 3 times and has one more international goal than Emile Heskey (though to be fair unlike Heskey he was a free kick specialist!) In 1997 he even...

Jul 27th

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Jul 27th

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Jul 27th

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Focus on a Football Fatty: Kevin Pressman

By me as first published on http://worldfootballweekly.wordpress.com/ ‘Big Kev’ and his penalties. Fat goalkeeper Kevin Pressman is somewhat of a Sheffield Wednesday icon having played 478 games for the Yorkshire club and was renowned for his penalty saving and scoring. Pressman made his debut way back in 1987 for the Owls against Southampton. He had forced his way into the team but faced...

May 3rd

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Apr 28th

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Apr 28th

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Focus on a Football Fatty: Andre Santos

Gut, Goals and Gays Defending is never really the strong point of defenders from Brazil and André Santos certainly fits this stereotype… Renowned for his attacking rather than defending despite being a left back André Santos has already played in 3 continents since he made his professional debut in 2004. The bulky left back started his career at Brazilian club Figueirense where he came...

Apr 24th

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Apr 18th

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Focus on a Football Fatty: Cristian Fabbiani

From: http://worldfootballweekly.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/wfwpreview3.pdf SKILL, SCANDAL and (Lipo)SUCTION As Alan Davies once said “There are two types of footballers in Argentina. There are the skilful ones and the murderers.” Well, it seems Cristian Fabbiani fits somewhere in between. Nicknamed El Ogro (The Ogre) Fabbiani is a real journeyman having played in Chile, Israel, Romania and of...

Apr 17th

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Apr 10th

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thesubstitution asked: Not strictly a question, more of a find of our own. We assume you know about Jeroen Verhoeven who, by some amazing fortune, has found himself playing as the reserve goalkeeper for Ajax in the Netherlands. It's a shame that we're seeing less and less fat footballers gracing the fields today. Keep plumbing the lower leagues!

Apr 10th

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