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Anyone who's played the game and managed to get a specific shirt number for a run of games will be able to
associate with this. Once you've got it, you don't want to let it go. So it's good to discover that even some
of the top players in the world have had to swap their shirt number when moving to a new club (although we should
pity the poor sods like LA Galaxy's Quavas Kirk, who not only lost his place in the team, but also his shirt number,
when some trumped up superstar joined his club's ranks).
If you know of any other famous, or unusual, shirt numbers then send us an email to:
info@midfielddynamo.com
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Famous No.6's
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| Daniel Passarella (Argentina) |
When the Argentinian FA announced in 1986 that they would be doing a repeat of 1982 and
ordering the shirt numbers alphabetically, apart from Diego Maradona who would swap
again to number 10, captain Passarella and Real Madrid striker Jorge Valdano pulled rank
and insisted on keeping their own numbers too, so Passarella kept his favoured number
6 and Valdano wore 11.
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Famous No.7's
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| Eric Cantona (Man Utd) |
Best known at Old Trafford with a number 7 on his back, Cantona actually started
his career at Man Utd in 1992 with the number 12 shirt. However, when Bryan Robson
retired in 1994 he snatched it off and never looked back, just like David Beckham did
three years later when Cantona retired.
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| Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool) |
It's crazy to think that somne of Liverpool's supporters were worried that Dalglish might not be
good enough to grace the coveted number 7 shirt that Kevin Keegan had vacated in 1977 on his transfer
to Hamburg. They were wrong, as King Kenny smashed home nearly a goal every other game for them
over the course of the next decade.
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| Raul (Real Madrid) |
The Bernabeu favourite was the reason why David Beckham had to pick a new shirt number.
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Famous No.11's
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| Jorge Valdano (Argentina) |
When the Argentinian FA announced in 1986 that they would be doing a repeat of 1982 and
ordering the shirt numbers alphabetically, apart from Diego Maradona who would swap
again to number 10, Real Madrid striker Valdano and captain Daniel Passarella pulled rank
and insisted on keeping their own numbers too, so Passarella kept his favoured number
6 and Valdano wore 11, rather than the number 21 that he was originally pencilled in for.
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Famous No.13's
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Eusebio (Portugal)
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Unable to play international football for his native Mozambique, the great Eusebio claimed
the number 13 shirt for Portugal instead, scoring a record 41 goals in just 64 games.
The Black Panther's goal-scoring exploits for Befica weren't too bad either -
an astonishing 727 goals in 715 matches, and no, that's not a typing mistake.
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| Gerd Muller (Bayern Munich, West Germany) |
The only thing unlucky about number 13 was the opposition defence, as der Bomber
bagged hatfuls of goals whilst wearing the number.
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Famous No.14's
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Johann Cruyff (Ajax, Holland)
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Up until 1970 Cruyff wore the number 9 shirt for Ajax, but when he missed a number of
games through injury Gerrie Muhren started to wear the shirt in his absence. When
Cruyff returned in a game against PSV he wore shirt number 14, and rather than demanding
his old number back from Muhren he stuck with 14 and even started wearing it with
the national team.
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Famous No.20's
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| Roberto Dynamite (Brazil) |
Great name. Great Player. A goal-scoring legend for Vasco da Gama, Dynamite wore the number 20 shirt
for Brazil at the 1978 and 1982 World Cup's, and the latter still begs the question as to why
he wasn't picked ahead of the infamous Serginho.
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Famous No.23's
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| David Beckham (Real Madrid, LA Galaxy) |
Beckham wore number 7 at Manchester United but when he
transferred to Real Madrid in 2003 Raul was holder of the shirt, and wasn't about to
offer it to him. It's widely reported that Beckham chose number 23 because he was a
big fan of basketball legend Michael Jordan (he wore number 23 with the Chicago Bulls),
but the simple reason is that the only choice he was offered was between shirt number
4 and shirt number 23. When Beckham moved to LA Galaxy in 2007 he decided to keep
the number, forcing young winger Quavas Kirk to reluctantly hand it over (poor old Kirk
swapped to no. 15, which was no compensation at all, they could at least have handed him
something decent, like number 7).
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Famous No.90's
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| Michael Foot (Plymouth Argyle) |
Back in 2003 the Pilgrims registered the former Labour Party leader as a player and
handed him the number 90 shirt, in honour of his 90th birthday.
It made him the oldest registered player in English football history.
He didn't actually get to play, but remained a fan.
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