Post by yenilira on Mar 31, 2011 20:43:44 GMT 1
Since squad numbers were assigned to footballers in the 1954 World Cup, they have gone on to create their own market and identity.
Football teams these days very rarely wear the usual 1 – 11, based on position and are easily identified through number. John Terry 26, Carlos Tevez 32 and the more recognised Beckham 23 are typical examples.
Is the growing demand of wearing a certain number due to superstition or birth date? Are numbers inflicted on certain players to boost sales? Or is it just purely because squads are so much bigger these days and competition is of such a high standard the club is unsure on what their favoured 11 is?
Blackpool could be said as a near as an exception to the rule: for example -
(1) Chubs
(2) Coid* (3) Crainey
(4) Southern (5) Eardley (6) Evatt
(7) Clarke * (8) McPhee * (9) Harewood
(10) Ormerod (11) Vaughan
* replaced by Cathcart (20), Grandin (14), and Adam (26), respectively, for sake of argument.
Then we come to the ‘upper range’ of shirt numbers: Richard Kingson has the number 28, DJ Campbell at 39,
Kornilenko with 41 on his back, ‘The Punch’ is 42, Reid covets the number 43, and Beattie plays with the number 44 on his top.
But if you think that is bad, you should come and watch Alanyaspor , who are a much smaller club than Blackpool:
Taken from my Report of their last match, against Akçaabat Sebatspor, their goalkeeper, Aydin, is numbered ‘1’.
but the rest of the team that day - (22)Tunahan, (33)Ilker, (4)Firat, (13)Okan, (6)Zeki, (95)Zafer, (42)Kazim, (17)Fatih, (10)Onur Y (sub by (61) Mahir Demir, 79 min), (77)Ilyas Sakizci (sub by (88)Ahmet 65min).
Their other goalkeeper, Hasan Demir, is numbered 71, #55 is striker Cengiz Özbek, and #41 is Özgür Çetiner, the midfielder.
OK, other sports, such as basketball and gridiron, have ‘silly numbers’ but that’s the ‘American way’.
What is it with British and European teams and the players’ shirt numbers?
YL.
Football teams these days very rarely wear the usual 1 – 11, based on position and are easily identified through number. John Terry 26, Carlos Tevez 32 and the more recognised Beckham 23 are typical examples.
Is the growing demand of wearing a certain number due to superstition or birth date? Are numbers inflicted on certain players to boost sales? Or is it just purely because squads are so much bigger these days and competition is of such a high standard the club is unsure on what their favoured 11 is?
Blackpool could be said as a near as an exception to the rule: for example -
(1) Chubs
(2) Coid* (3) Crainey
(4) Southern (5) Eardley (6) Evatt
(7) Clarke * (8) McPhee * (9) Harewood
(10) Ormerod (11) Vaughan
* replaced by Cathcart (20), Grandin (14), and Adam (26), respectively, for sake of argument.
Then we come to the ‘upper range’ of shirt numbers: Richard Kingson has the number 28, DJ Campbell at 39,
Kornilenko with 41 on his back, ‘The Punch’ is 42, Reid covets the number 43, and Beattie plays with the number 44 on his top.
But if you think that is bad, you should come and watch Alanyaspor , who are a much smaller club than Blackpool:
Taken from my Report of their last match, against Akçaabat Sebatspor, their goalkeeper, Aydin, is numbered ‘1’.
but the rest of the team that day - (22)Tunahan, (33)Ilker, (4)Firat, (13)Okan, (6)Zeki, (95)Zafer, (42)Kazim, (17)Fatih, (10)Onur Y (sub by (61) Mahir Demir, 79 min), (77)Ilyas Sakizci (sub by (88)Ahmet 65min).
Their other goalkeeper, Hasan Demir, is numbered 71, #55 is striker Cengiz Özbek, and #41 is Özgür Çetiner, the midfielder.
OK, other sports, such as basketball and gridiron, have ‘silly numbers’ but that’s the ‘American way’.
What is it with British and European teams and the players’ shirt numbers?
YL.