User:Aecis/Trivia

Utterly unencyclopedic trivia too interesting not to mention

Notable people who could have become notable at football (soccer) but who became notable elsewhere in life

 * Niels Bohr - Goalkeeper for Akademisk Boldklub in Denmark.
 * Harald Bohr - Played for Akademisk Boldklub and the Danish national football team, won silver at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
 * Albert Camus - Goalkeeper for University of Algiers, had to end his career after catching tuberculosis. Would likely have made the Algeria national football team.
 * Goran Ivanisevic - Played for Hajduk Split's youth academy, but decided to play tennis instead.
 * Pope John Paul II - Goalkeeper in his early days, quit football in order to focus on his religion.
 * Vladimir Nabokov - Goalkeeper during his time at Cambridge
 * Dmitri Shostakovich - Qualified football referee

Coincidence?

 * 1968/1969: George Lazenby takes over as the actor playing James Bond, Ajax Amsterdam reach the European Cup final.
 * 1970/1971: Sean Connery takes over as the actor playing James Bond, Ajax Amsterdam win the European Cup.
 * 1972/1973: Roger Moore takes over as the actor playing James Bond, Ajax Amsterdam win the European Cup.
 * 1986/1987: Timothy Dalton takes over as the actor playing James Bond, Ajax Amsterdam win the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
 * 1994/1995: Pierce Brosnan takes over as the actor playing James Bond, Ajax Amsterdam win the UEFA Champions League.
 * 2006/2007: Daniel Craig takes over as the actor playing James Bond, ... Nothing...

Lack of promotion and relegation
Five active Dutch football (soccer) clubs have never been relegated from the Eredivisie:
 * Ajax: 1954 - present.
 * Feyenoord: 1954 - present.
 * PSV: 1954 - present.
 * RKC: 1988 - present relegated in 2007.
 * Roda JC: 1973 - present.

Three active Dutch professional football clubs have never won promotion to the Eredivisie:
 * FC Emmen, became professional in 1985.
 * TOP Oss, became professional in 1955, returned to the amateur ranks in 1957 and became professional again in 1991.
 * FC Omniworld, became professional in 2005.