Trivia thread, the revival

[The Abusement Park]

9 Africans have hit the 50 goal mark in PL. Who are they?

 

[ecemleafs]

9 Africans have hit the 50 goal mark in PL. Who are they?

Drogba, Mane, Kanu, Okocha, Salah, McCarthy, Mahrez, Aubameyang, Diouf

 

[ecemleafs]

lol i missed 2 obvious ones.

 

[East Coast Bias]

One of them is the man Yakubuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[The Abusement Park]

Drogba, Mane, Kanu, Okocha, Salah, McCarthy, Mahrez, Aubameyang, Diouf

Drogba, Mane, Kane, Kanu, Salah, and Mahrez are correct.

@East Coast Bias Yakubu is also correct.

Edit: for some reason Auba wasn't on the PL website but that is also correct. Make it 10 Africans.

 

[Evilo]

4 are French or raised in France.

 

[gary69]

Damn Ligue 1... is it 8 instead of 7?

No way St.Etienne won the title since 2000. But Giroud spearheaded Montpellier did. Not sure whether Nantes title was in the late 90's or was it later.

 

[The Abusement Park]

No way St.Etienne won the title since 2000. But Giroud spearheaded Montpellier did. Not sure whether Nantes title was in the late 90's or was it later.

Dammit I think that’s who I was thinking of. I knew two teams who haven’t been great lately won titles on the mid 2000’s. And I know St. Etienne had a decent stretch so I went with them.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Dammit I think that’s who I was thinking of. I knew two teams who haven’t been great lately won titles on the mid 2000’s. And I know St. Etienne had a decent stretch so I went with them.

you had it correct for 6. But yea St E was wrong. It was Nantes and Montepellier.

 

[The Abusement Park]

you had it correct for 6. But yea St E was wrong. It was Nantes and Montepellier.

Oh yeah never would’ve thought of Nantes.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Yaya Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor are the last two?

 

[ecemleafs]

Yaya Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor are the last two?

Drogba, Mane, Yakubu, Kanu, Salah, Mahrez, Aubameyang, Yaya, Adebayor are right. Thats 9. I dont know if there is a 10th.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Yaya Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor are the last two?

Uno mas. The article referenced was from last year so Auba wasn't on the list. So there's 10.

 

[ecemleafs]

no there is one more. wouldnt have guessed this one in a million years tho.

 

[The Abusement Park]

no there is one more. wouldnt have guessed this one in a million years tho.

Did you google it? Haha

 

[ecemleafs]

Adebayor and Yakubu were the 2 i missed that i thought were obvious once they were named lol. Yaya escaped me, but he was a midfielder so I guess thats why i didnt think of him.

 

[ecemleafs]

Did you google it? Haha

after i guessed i searched the premier league website all time goal scorer list and looked for africans with 50 goals lol.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Is it Salomon Kalou? Or Wilfred Bony?

 

[The Abusement Park]

Nope. The hint I’ll give is that he does punditry now.

 

[Stray Wasp]

I'm guessing the player in question is someone who was born and raised in the UK or France and subsequently decided to transfer their allegiance to the nation of their parents / grandparents - and maybe didn't play a lot of international games. Ie, someone we wouldn't specifically identify as an 'African' footballer.

 

[Evilo]

Well that's the case of Auba and Mahrez too.

 

[Incubajerks]

Ekoku

 

[The Abusement Park]

Ekoku

Correct

 

[Evilo]

Without looking it up, which player, as of december 1st (I haven't read this stat since) was the player who recovered the most balls in the top 5 leagues?
Hint 1 : he's in L1
Hint 2 : he's not french, he's south american
Hint 3 : he plays for a lower profile team, but used to be an FM legend.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Without looking it up, which player, as of december 1st (I haven't read this stat since) was the player who recovered the most balls in the top 5 leagues?
Hint 1 : he's in L1
Hint 2 : he's not french, he's south american
Hint 3 : he plays for a lower profile team, but used to be an FM legend.

No clue if he plays in France or not but Eder Balanta was the first name popped into my head.