However the other played for the Toffees in the 1900s, making 275 league appearances. The more known Alexander Young played for Everton through the sixties and was known as the Golden Vision. Slightly differently, Everton have had two legends who go by the same name, Alex Young. However, the other is yet to make his league debut. One of them, the defender born in 1992, played 108 games for the club. “Parisian club Red Star (quite ironic with regards to Partizan) had two Pierrick Cros in their squad. “The first Harry Dunn staggeringly made more than 900 appearances for them, with his namesake given the fictitious middle initial ‘A’ in a bid to distinguish between them – he would long be known to supporters as Harry A Dunn thereafter.” “There was an unusual case at Scarborough in the 1970s when two players called Harry Dunn were both at the club,” he writes. By the way, in 2002 Locomotiv won the League!”Īndy Boyd has a tale of two Harrys. So, Sergei Ivanovich Ovchinnikov was keeping goal, and Sergei Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov failed to score in his four appearances.
The two were differentiated exactly like in the original Serbian example – by patronym, their fathers’ first name, which is quite common in Russia. Another, a young attacker who ended up having an unremarkable career. One was a famous and influential goalkeeper, nicknamed The Boss, with 35 games for the national side.
“There were two players by the name of Sergei Ovchinnikov. Over to the Russian Premier League now where Marat Airapetian takes us back to Lokomotiv Moscow in 20. As they have over a hundred caps for Israel between them, they’ve probably also been on the pitch for the national team at the same time, too.” The younger and less prestigious winger went by the subtly different Tal Ben Chaim from then on on his shirts, though Uefa reports record his name as Tal Ben Haim II. “In June 2015, Maccabi Tel Aviv bought the journeyman defender Tal Ben Haim to go with the young winger already at the club, Tal Ben Haim. Here’s Ciaran Hannigan-Purcell to get the ball rolling. This isn’t quite so rare as you might think Leo, particularly in Israel. My question therefore is: has a club ever had two (or more) players with the exact same name in their squad, and how have they differentiated them?”
It appears as if they have collectively decided to be referred to as Nemanja ‘G’ and Nemanja ‘R’ after their fathers’ first names, respectively (in turn showcasing what a patriarchal society we live, although that’s a matter for another time). “Both were born in 1991 and neither has a middle name. “FK Partizan, current Serbian league and cup holders, have two Nemanja Miletićs in their squad,” exclaims Leo Crnogorcevic.