# Omnibus World Football Thread 2020-2022 (edited) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-soccer-fifa\ **Created:** [August 16, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264 "2020-08-16T15:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 98
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1942 "2026-07-01T19:44:02Z")
Not for free, of course. But probably cheaper than the website you linked to. They have conections, it is often part of the service of a good hotel. Same goes for theatre, opera and museum time slot tickets. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1943 "2026-07-20T17:49:00Z")
And now that the WC has been played, I’m sorry to revive the omnibus thread with sad news. The “Mighty Mouse”, Kevin Keegan has died at age 75. I fondly remember him from the days he was playing for HSV, he really was the first pop star in the Bundesliga. An English player in the Bundesliga had been unthinkable before. Everybody loved and everybody in Germany remembers him well. RIP. > **[Kevin Keegan, Liverpool legend and former Newcastle manager, dies aged 75](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/20/kevin-keegan-liverpool-legend-and-former-newcastle-manager-dies-aged-75)** > > Kevin Keegan, the former England and Newcastle manager who was a member of Liverpool’s serial champions in the 1970s, has died aged 75 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1944 "2026-07-20T18:51:06Z")
I had never heard of him, he looks like a proper footballer though: [![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/806e9f7cfa423d6ccd1c9473313b3ec2e8ed54d4/129_89_1477_1181/master/1477.jpg?width=620&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/806e9f7cfa423d6ccd1c9473313b3ec2e8ed54d4/129_89_1477_1181/master/1477.jpg?width=620&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1945 "2026-07-20T19:02:19Z")
He even had a hit single when he was playing for HSV! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yJdW7-MnXtc/maxresdefault.jpg "Kevin Keegan - Head Over Heels In Love (1979)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJdW7-MnXtc) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1946 "2026-07-20T19:06:01Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I had never heard of him, he looks like a proper footballer though: Footballers just had the best hair in the 70s… ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1947 "2026-07-20T19:07:45Z")
And the 80’s ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1948 "2026-07-20T19:17:15Z")
Like German Vokuhilamiolibas? 😬 [![](https://www.main-echo.de/storage/image/3/4/0/9/3369043_original2560_1DoHwP_twoFmw.jpg) ](https://www.main-echo.de/storage/image/3/4/0/9/3369043_original2560_1DoHwP_twoFmw.jpg) (that means “vorne kurz, hinten lang, mit Oberlippenbart”, “short in the front, long in the back, with mustache”. Basically a mullet with a stache in English slang. The Lightning Seeds also made fun of it:) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oyoy2_7FegI/maxresdefault.jpg "The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions '98 (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyoy2_7FegI) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1949 "2026-07-20T19:21:27Z")
Look at that true image of a Man! today metrosexual players cannot approach that level of Football awesomeness! [![](https://www.main-echo.de/storage/image/3/4/0/9/3369043_original2560_1DoHwP_twoFmw.jpg) ](https://www.main-echo.de/storage/image/3/4/0/9/3369043_original2560_1DoHwP_twoFmw.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1950 "2026-07-20T19:43:28Z")
Let me have a good look at that very interesting specimen of a footballer. The club is **[Hansa Rostock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Hansa_Rostock)** (you can tell by the logo), and the sponsor, Möbel Höffner, shows that this is after the German unification. It must be the '90s, if not later. And the aesthetics are so _passé_ for this time, even in footballing circles, that you can only scream: _Ein Ossi vor dem Herrn!_ (An East-German straight out of the ~~text~~ cliché book!). Hansa Rostock kept being relegated and coming back to the first division, this looks like a second league phase. Now they are in the third division, where hope goes to die. Did I get it more or less right? Was he famous? ---
**Author:** ![Dahu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahu/32/3416_2.png) [@Dahu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahu)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1951 "2026-07-20T19:53:12Z")
Two-time European Footballer of the Year (forerunner of the Ballon D’Or). A true Superstar. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1952 "2026-07-20T19:55:35Z")
The England team failing to qualify for the 74 and 78 World Cups with Keegan in his prime is hard to understand. Less teams in the tournament so harder to qualify…but still. He never seems to be in that bracket of best English players and I suspect it’s because of that. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1953 "2026-07-20T19:58:55Z")
I think you have it basically right, yeah by the logo it’s Hansa Rostock (the Hansekogge), and it rather looks like early 90s than the 80s, and yes it’s the over-the-top stereotype how Wessis imagined early 90s Ossis, but I don’t have a clue who the guy is or what’s his name. I just did a search for “80er Jahre Nationalelf Vokuhilamioliba”, and this was the first hit, although I’m quite sure that the guy never played for the German national team. But i just couldn’t let that picture go unforwarded. ETA: but note that Hansa played a few seasons in the Bundesliga in the early 90s, so he might be a former Bundesliga player. Forgotten for everything but his fabulous hair. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1954 "2026-07-29T14:31:24Z")
One more post in this entertaining thread. My son has been a Sporting KC fan since they moved into their home stadium in 2010. He has also become an overall soccer fan and watches the Premier League game each Sunday morning. We had dinner together a couple of nights ago and he was wearing this t-shirt. I think it sums up the feelings of a multitude of soccer fans across the globe. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/CALYyIg.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/vEWQ3EJ) ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1955 "2026-08-18T21:30:58Z")
Barcelona just signed Rodri from City for $70m. I’m not sure how I feel about this; Barca already had a great midfield although dmid was certainly the weak point. I guess the starting 3 will be Pedri, Dani Olmo, and Rodri, with Frenkie de Jong and Gavi off the bench. Given several of them have injury issues it makes theoretical sense, but I would have thought a center back and central forward were higher priority. Rodri is 30. That’s no longer old, but not someone you sign building for the future. Better win the UCL in the next couple! ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1956 "2026-08-24T01:02:28Z")
Haaland cut his hair!? I assume that’s where he derived his power. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1957 "2026-08-24T01:21:36Z")
He played not too bad with Salzburg. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1958 "2026-08-31T15:33:15Z")
Messi announced he’s retiring from International Football. Please everybody log out from the Dope, I need to be alone… ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1959 "2026-08-31T16:05:52Z")
FWIW, after this thread had been revived by the shattering news for @Frodo, I scrolled a bit up and remembered that exchange. And now I was curious who the guy is and did a Google lens search, and found him. Yeah, he even played Bundesliga for Hansa Rostock, and his hair was always a big concern throughout his career, causing trouble with his coaches. > **[Mike Werner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Werner)** > > Mike Werner (born 13 February 1971) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. Werner began playing football for BSG Energie Cottbus. He was then allowed to join the youth department of the army-sponsored football club FC Vorwärts Frankfurt in 1984. Werner attended a sports school in Frankfurt an der Oder and played for the youth teams of FC Vorwärts Frankfurt. He eventually made his debut for the first team of FC Vorwärts Frankfurt in the DDR-Oberliga as a 17-year-old... ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1960 "2026-08-31T16:10:33Z")
He’s the GOAT. He’s also pretty obviously not going to be at a level to compete in 4 more years. I think the only question would have been retire now or try to snag another Copa so he could go out on a championship. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1961 "2026-08-31T16:23:09Z")
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